Ms. Denise Mazzolani is a criminal lawyer, specialised in security threats posed by criminal activities such as transnational organized crime, terrorism and cybercrime. Before joining the Council of Europe as Programme Manager, at the Cybercrime Programme Office, she worked for the OSCE as Deputy Head - Strategic Police Matters Unit/Transnational Threats Department and as Head of the Security Co-operation Department of the OSCE Mission to Serbia. She practised criminal law in Italy and worked for the UN and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on criminal justice and police reform processes in Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Sri-Lanka, Nigeria and El Salvador. She holds a master’s degree in EU Policies and Regional Development from the Bologna Business School and a master’s degree in EU International Humanitarian Action (NOHA) at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. More recently she completed the UNITAR-IPI fellowship programme in peace-making and preventive diplomacy.