Ms Battaini-Dragoni was elected to the post of Deputy Secretary General in June 2012. In 2011, the Secretary  General appointed her Director General of Programmes, responsible for overseeing the bi-annual programme of  intergovernmental activities and for coordinating all monitoring, standard-setting and cooperation activities on  human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Since 2005 she has coordinated the Council of Europe’s projects on intercultural dialogue, preparing the “White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue”, the first document of its kind to be  adopted at international level. Ms Battaini-Dragoni has published widely on a variety of social and educational policy topics in both Anglophone and Francophone academic journals and international publications.