Monica Frassoni

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Monica Frassoni
Frassoni in 2019
Spokesperson for the European Green Party
In office 21 October 2009 – 5 November 2019 Serving with Reinhard Bütikofer
Member of the European Parliament
In office 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009
Co-President of the European Centre for Electoral Support
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 June 2013
Personal details
Born	(1963-09-10) 10 September 1963 (age 60) Veracruz, Mexico
Nationality	Italian
Political party	European Green Party
Website	monicafrassoni.org

Monica Frassoni (born 10 September 1963) is an Italian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009 and as co-chair of the European Green Party from 2009 to 2019. In 2018, she was elected at the local Council of Ixelles in the Brussels Region, representing the Ecolo party.

In 2010, Frassoni co-founded and leads the European Alliance to Save Energy a multi-stakeholder, business-led organisation which aims to promote and advocate energy savings and a new energy model.^[1] She is also a member of the steering committee of the Coalition of Energy Savings.^[2] Since 2013, Frassoni has been president of the Management Board of the European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES), one of the most important organisation worldwide to implement electoral and democracy assistance projects mainly funded by the European Union and its Member States.

Frassoni is a member of the board of trustees of "Friends of Europe" a leading think tank that works to promote a more inclusive, sustainable and forward-looking Europe. She is also a board member of the Foundation ceci n'est pas une crise, created in 2013 in Belgium to respond to the challenges of cultural and identity populism.^[3]