Elena Altieri

Elena is the Development Marketplace Communication Officer and the administrator of this blog. She is an Italian national specialized in strategic communication and social marketing who started her career working for the private sector in Italy.  Her motivation and passion for development took her to Honduras where she spent two years working as Communication Officer for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). She moved to Washington DC in 2004 to design and implement communication projects and awareness campaigns for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) where she had the opportunity to develop advocacy, participatory and social marketing strategies on several social issues. She believes that strategic communication can make a difference in development and considers herself lucky for having had the privilege of working both with celebrities raising awareness with policymakers and with local communities including them in development processes. Elena holds a Master Degree in Direction of Communication from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB).