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Matteo Mecacci
Former Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Matteo Mecacci (Italy) served as the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) from December 2020 to August 2024.
Prior to that he spent 7 years as President of the International Campaign for Tibet. He headed the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission to Georgia in 2013 and was a Member of the Italian Parliament, Foreign Affairs Committee and of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly from 2008– 2013. From 2000 to 2008 he was Representative to the United Nations in New York of “No Peace Without Justice” and the “Transnational Radical Party”. He holds a JD in International Law from the University of Florence.