Monica
Messih

Institutional Relations Office

Rome

In UTOPIA since July 2022, Monica is part of the Monitoring and Institutional Relations Office, where she mainly deals with the digital sector.

Born in 1994 in Egypt. After attending high school in Umbria, during which she engaged in associations and political activity, she graduated with honors in a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in International and Diplomatic Studies from the University of Bologna, along a career that mainly took her abroad. In fact, she studied at Sciences Po in Bordeaux, at the Universidad Pablo De Olavide in Seville and at the Université de Montréal. In Montreal she also worked at the Consulate General of Italy and at the International Civil Aviation Organization; in Bordeaux she worked on a project as a business consultant for Ausone Conseil; and in Cairo she worked at the Organization for Human Rights. She entered the Italian institutional affairs and lobbying carrer after moving to Rome in 2019, while studying in the II level Master’s program in Politics and International Relations at LUMSA University. Thanks to her experience in public affairs consulting, she managed to deal with a variety of sectors, ranging from transports to digital health, from energy to tech platforms. Hyperactive, she explores any kind of sport, preferably in the great outdoors. The only out-of-control addiction: Caribbean dancing.