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President of Emergency since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her previous position as Director of the Field Operations Department, she worked to develop EMERGENCY\u2019s humanitarian programmes in Afghanistan, Sudan, and Uganda, whilst developing key strategic international partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She cooperated with the Sudanese authorities to open the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery in Khartoum in 2007, the first free centre for cardiac surgery on the African continent. In 2013, she worked with the Ugandan authorities to promote and facilitate the construction of the first regional Centre of Excellence in Paediatric Surgery in Entebbe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her role as President, Rossella leads EMERGENCY\u2019s involvement in global events like the Paris Peace Forum and World Innovation Summit for Health, and movements such as the People\u2019s Vaccine Alliance and the European Citizens Initiative\u2019s Right2Cure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2003, she has sat on EMERGENCY\u2019s Executive Committee and she has been a member of the Italian National Council for Development Cooperation since 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31086,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRossella Miccio - Festival della Diplomazia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Presidente di Emergency dal 2017\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/rossella-miccio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rossella Miccio - Festival della Diplomazia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Presidente di Emergency dal 2017\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/rossella-miccio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Festival della Diplomazia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-10-02T14:12:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Miccio.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"656\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"492\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/rossella-miccio\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/rossella-miccio\/\",\"name\":\"Rossella Miccio - 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