Giuseppe Porcaro

Policy Advisor Strategic Foresight & Policy Planning

Brussels Metropolitan Area

About

20+ years of professional and academic experience in European and Global Political Affairs, with skills in management, research, strategic communications, and public diplomacy. Giuseppe has an extensive network with governmental officials, companies, civil society, and academia. Giuseppe’s expertise lie in multilateral relations, the rise of China, technological changes and how they affect democracy, as well as to narratives about European futures and their policy implications in the current global geopolitical context. He is also a published fiction writer.

Experience

  • Policy Advisor at European External Action Service
    Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Bruegel (Full-time · 9 yrs 6 mos)
    • Head of Outreach, Governance & Human Resources
      May 2022 - Nov 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

      • Member of the executive management team • Responsible for the governance and membership relations of Bruegel • Board secretary • Strategic direction of the communications including media, press as well as events • Human Resources management

    • Head of Outreach and Governance
      Jan 2020 - May 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      • Responsible for the governance and membership relations of the Think Tank • Member of the executive management team • Board secretary • Strategic direction of the communications including media, press as well as events

    • Head of Communications and Events
      Jun 2014 - Dec 2019 · 5 yrs 7 mos

      ▪ Strategic Communications including media outreach, press, and events direction. ▪ Member of the management team.

  • European Youth Forum (Brussels Area, Belgium)
    • Secretary General
      Jun 2009 - Jun 2014 · 5 yrs 1 mo

      • Management of a secretariat of 30 employees • Strategic Communication • Public Representation

    • United Nations and Global Youth Affairs Coordinator
      Jul 2007 - May 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos

      • Relations with the United Nations System and other regional organisations; • Policy-making and Advocacy in the field of development cooperation, EU external action, and global governance

  • Supervisor - Post Conflict Youth Grant at The World Bank
    Apr 2006 - May 2007 · 1 yr 2 mos

    • Technical Assistance to the Youth Department of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport of Kosovo • Monitoring and Evaluation of the implementation of the post-conflict youth Grant of the WB to the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport of Kosovo

  • Research Assistant - Political Geography at Universita degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale"
    May 2003 - May 2006 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    • Co-ordination of a research project on urban development in the Mediterranean Area in partnership with the Confederation of Italian Industry, Naples chapter • Teaching Political Geography courses on the European Studies, International Relations and Development Studies Masters • Participation in the set up of a Euro-Mediterranean Masters Programme and in the set up of an e-learning platform for the teaching of Political and Human Geography at the University of Naples • Assistant to the daily work of the Department of Social Science, Political Geography