Secretary General of Assifero and chair of the Dafne-Donors and Foundations Networks board in Europe
Carola Carazzone is Secretary General of Assifero, the Italian association of family, corporate and community grant-making foundations, since 2014. She chairs the Dafne-Donors and Foundations Networks in Europe board since January 2021.
She moved to the philanthropy sector after fifteen-year professional experience in 18 countries, working with civil society for the promotion and protection of human rights at national and international level.
She is an Italian lawyer specialised in human rights at the René Cassin International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, holding also a Master in Development Economics at University of Pavia.
She serves as Advisory Board Member of Ariadne, the European network of funders for social change and human rights, as Member of the Experts’ Reflection Group of ECFI (European Community Foundations Initiative), as Member of the Alliance Magazine Editorial Board, and Ashoka Italy Advisory Committee.
She was Senior Fellow at the Centre on Philanthropy and Civil Society at CUNY.
