Paola Panzeri is the Deputy General Secretary of the European Public Services Unions (EPSU) since 2024. She joined EPSU in 2018 and was in charge of the Local and Regional Governments sector. She also coordinates the EPSU work in the area of women’s rights and gender equality and was Vice-President of the ETUC Women’s Committee (2021-2025). She has been working on EU employment and gender equality policies in Brussels since 2011, for EU NGO. Before coming to Brussels, Paola worked for human rights NGOs and institutions in Kenya, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France and Italy.
She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Milan (Italy) and a MA in Law and European Studies from the University of Strasbourg (France).