Nadia Gasbarrini is Programme Manager at Villa Maraini Foundation, coordinating international projects and activities on substance abuse prevention, treatment and care. She has been working in this field since more than 20 years; before the actual position, she worked with UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) in Moscow as Coordinator of a UNODC/WHO joint project on substance abuse prevention and with OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) in Bosnia-Herzegovina as Coordinator of youth projects on capacity building and social reintegration. She is author/co-author of several publications on harm reduction, peer education, drug abuse-related programmes and policies. As consultant of the IFRC Partnership on Substance abuse, she has organized more than 40 training and seminars on harm reduction and humanitarian drug policy for Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies and NGOs, and has participated in various field missions for project monitoring and evaluation.