Lia Quartapelle is a Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and Vice President of the Foreign Affairs and Community Affairs Committee, a position she has held since 2022. A member of the Democratic Party (PD), she has served in the Italian Parliament since 2013.
She is a member of the Italian Board of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and chairs the Advisory Board of Women in International Security (WIIS) Italy. In 2022, she was selected as a Munich Young Leader by the Munich Security Conference.
Before entering politics, she worked as a researcher at ISPI, the Italian Institute for International Political Studies. She holds a Master’s degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London and a Ph.D. in Development Economics from the University of Pavia.