Vittoria Zanuso is executive director of the Mayors Migration Council, a global coalition of over 250 mayors working to accelerate action on migration and displacement. Under her leadership, the MMC has secured more direct and equal city access to diplomatic processes than ever before and made millions of dollars available to city governments, including through the Global Cities Fund for Migrants and Refugees. Prior to this, Zanuso was a senior manager at the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities initiative. She began her career in strategic communications, first at the spokesperson’s office of the European Commission vice president and then on the Clinton Global Initiative communications team. Zanuso’s commentary has appeared in Time, Al Jazeera, The Hill and Bloomberg, among other outlets.
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