ANNA FROSINI, Communication & Policy Officer

 
Anna Frosini is Communication & Policy Officer at Agroecology Europe, focusing on youth in agroecology, policy advocacy and supporting Horizon Europe research projects. Among her responsibilities is co-organising the 2025 Agroecology Europe Forum in Sweden. Previously, she worked at IFOAM Organics Europe as Research & Innovation assistant and at TP Organics as Advocacy assistant.

Anna holds an MA in Environmental Humanities from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.  She is also an agroecological farmer at Bioagriturismo Podere Montisi in Tuscany, Italy, where she passionately teaches young students from local schools about agroecology, organises community events, and reconnects with her roots through gardening and food producing whenever she visits home.

grazia cioci, operations and fundraising manager

 
Grazia Cioci holds a Master of Science in Economics and a Master of Arts in Environmental Policy and Management. She joins Agroecology Europe as Operations and Fundraising Manager. For over 15 years, Grazia’s professional career has centered on International (UN) and EU environmental and climate/energy policies, representing the interests of various International Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), being responsible for managing European projects and advocacy campaigns and for raising European operational and project funds. During the past eight years, Grazia has brought her experience to the private consultancy sector, working first for EY and recently as a freelancer to support small, medium, and large companies as well as NGOs in securing and managing EU environmental and climate grants for the development of sustainability projects and campaigns. Grazia is an expert in the EU LIFE Programme and the Innovation Fund Programme. She has also experience with Horizon Europe grants and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Programme.  

Henriette christensen, Executive director

 
Henriette Christensen joins the AEEU working team as Executive Director. Henriette holds a master degree in Agricultural Economic from the University of Copenhagen, having also studied development economics at the University of la Sapienza in Rome. 

Henriette has worked in Brussels for over 25 years having worked among others for the European Commission, the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA) and Pesticide Action Network Europe Brussels (PAN Europe). Henriette is convinced that Agroecology Europe has a central role in ensuring the agroecological transition that the European model of farming so desperately needs.

matteo metta, policy manager

 
Dr. Matteo Metta brings a rural sociology perspective as Policy Manager to Agroecology Europe, blending hands-on agricultural experience with policy, research, and capacity building. He holds a joint PhD in agri-food and environmental science from the University of Pisa and Ghent University, focusing on the intersection of digital transformation, farm diversification, and rural development. 

Beyond his academic pursuits, Matteo is actively involved in beekeeping and the arts. His previous work includes organic farming and food markets, policy evaluation, innovation and rural digitalisation in Europe, the Balkans, Japan, and Cuba.

ROBIN Llewellyn, SENIOR PRESS OFFICER


Robin Llewellyn is leading our media outreach activities. Robin spent many years reporting on indigenous affairs in Latin America, and developed a passion for agroecology in Mayan communities in Belize and in Nasa communities in Colombia. He has contributed to agricultural diversification and the development of the local food economy in the UNESCO Dyfi Biosphere of Wales, and has worked in the dairy, lamb, and horticultural sectors in Europe, and in the coffee sector in Colombia. He has an E.MA in Human Rights from the Global Campus of Human Rights and an MA in International Journalism from Cardiff University. 

Vincent Dauby, Research manager

vincent.dauby@aeeu.org

Vincent has been around in the agroecology bubble for 10 years now. It all started when he decided to turn his career around and to get more involved in the local and social alternative activities in his Belgian city of Liege. He met peasants and activists and was introduced to agroecology and food sovereignty. 

After being part of various agroecological initiatives in Belgium and abroad (vice-president of a union of small farmers, part of the coordination team of Agroecology in Action, wwoofing, participation in the Nyeleni Forum 2016, etc.), Vincent started a Master in agroecology. With his new diploma in hand, Vincent worked for a Belgian NGO as the food and sovereignty officer where he coordinated the Belgian Coalition against Hunger. 

His last job brought him to the international level of agriculture where he took part in negotiations on climate and agroecology, on finance for agroecology, on global food governance. Now Vincent is the researcher manager at Agroecology Europe.