Claudio Mazzetti is the Coordinator for Development at the European University Institute, where he acts as a subject matter expert for fundraising and development with particular emphasis on flagship initiatives such as the European Media and Information Fund– EMIF. Before, he was the Team Leader for Research Management at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), where he supervised and coordinated the work of the team of all RSCAS Project Managers (5 PMs with almost 100 externally funded projects per year) and directly advised the Director on the overall development and fundraising strategy of the Schuman Centre.

In 2012, he was the Executive Funding Manager of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom – CMPF at the RSCAS and he managed the CMPF activities and projects uninterruptedly from 2012 until 2023. He holds a bachelor in History from the University of Florence and an MA in International Politics from the University of Paris XI. He worked for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kosovo and the European Parliament in Luxembourg. From 2004 to 2009 he worked in Brussels for one of the European leading consultancy firms, AESA where he acted as Head of the Social Department. Since January 2010 he has worked at the EUI. Overall he has more than 20 years of relevant professional experience.