Michele Grigolo

Michele Grigolo graduated in Political Sciences (International and European Studies) at the University of Padua (Italy) and obtained his European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation from the same university. A reduced version of his Master’s thesis was published in the European Journal of International Law in 2003. Subsequently, he spent research periods at the Danish Centre for Human Rights in Copenhagen, the University of Thessalonica and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. In February 2009 he obtained a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences by the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) with a thesis on “Human Rights and the City: Anti-Discrimination Laws and Policies in New York and Barcelona”. His fields of interest are the law and politics of human rights and non-discrimination at the international/European, state and local levels, urban politics and social policy. He worked for the Italian Institute of Culture in Paris, the Municipality of Venice and the Directorate General for Research of the European Parliament in Luxembourg, within the framework of the Robert Schuman Scholarship. He has been research assistant to Professor Michael Keating and Professor Ramon Marimon at European University Institute (Florence), and to the EIUC.