Monica Frassoni

Monica Frassoni


President	European Center for Electoral Support European Alliance to Save Energy European Green Party
Personal details
Born	10 septembre 1963 Veracruz, Mexique
Website	www.monicafrassoni.it

European Center for Electoral Support European Alliance to Save Energy

Monica Frassoni (born September 10, 1963 in Veracruz, Mexico) is an Italian politician and a former Member of the European Parliament, where she served until 2009. She has been a member of Italian Green party since 2009, which is part of the European Green Party, a transnational political party having as members the European Green parties. She was previously Secretary General of the Young European Federalists.

Monica Frassoni is the co-president of the European Green party, the president of the European Alliance to Save Energy (EUASE) and the president of the European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES), a non-profit private foundation, headquartered in Brussels(Belgium) and created in 2010 that aims to promote sustainable democratic development.

Monica Frassoni is also a member of the board of trustee of "Friends of Europe" a leading think tank that works for the promotion of a more inclusive, sustainable and forward-looking Europe. It is composed of prominent political figures such as Viscount Etienne Davignon (Vice-President of the European Commission 1981-1985), Joaquín Almunia (Vice-President of the European Commission 2010-2014), António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres recently appointed Secretary General of the United Nations and Carl Bildt (Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs 2006-2014 and former Swedish Prime Minister). She is also a board member of the "European Union Women Caucus" an inter-institutional platform for discussion, bringing together female leaders in the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and the representations of the EU Member States to the European Union.