Carlotta Besozzi is the Director of Civil Society Europe, the coordination of European Platforms of national and european associations and NGOs representing different sectors within civil society such as human rights, environment, international cooperation, social inclusion, culture, education, health, civic rights, transparency, and active on promoting an enabling civic space in Europe and dialogue with the European Union Institutions. She holds a degree in Philosophy at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. She has worked most of her career in the civil society sector after a few years at the European Parliament as a Political and Research Parliamentary Assistant. Previous to managing Civil Society Europe, she has been the Director of the European Disability Forum for a decade.