Programme Coordinator, European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ)

Emanuela Biffi studied Liberal Arts at the University College Maastricht (Netherlands) and University of Gaborone (Botswana) with a focus on social psychology and criminal law and the Master's programme in Criminology at KU Leuven (Belgium). Previously, she studied in a maritime institute and worked in several sailing yachts navigating the Mediterranean sea, French Polynesia and the Caribbean. She joined the EFRJ team in September 2013, mostly working as a project officer in different EU-funded projects on restorative justice. She also worked as a researcher for the KU Leuven Institute of Criminology in a project on the implementation of the EU Victims' Directive. In 2016-2019 she managed communications and events at the EFRJ. Since 2020, she has focused on (research) projects. She cooperates with the Radicalisation Awareness Network to organise events and publish papers on restorative justice in cases of violent extremism and terrorism.