Monica Attias
Profile
Monica Attias is the coordinator of the Sant’Egidio Humanitarian Corridors Program from Afghanistan and Cyprus as well as the Anti-Trafficking Project, which caters to victims of human trafficking. She has been a member of the Sant'Egidio Community since 1978 and has volunteered in the field of research on migration and asylum since 2000, taking part in many international conferences. Attias has a long experience in ecumenical relations with the Methodist Churches and the Anglican Communion worldwide and she is a scholar in the contemporary ecumenical history of the Witnesses of the Faith (Vatican New Martyrs’ Commission, 2000). She is the author of several articles and of the book Racconti di pace in Oceania. La vicenda dei sette martiri anglicani della Melanesian Brotherhood (Urbaniana University Press, 2012). Since 2008, she has worked at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) as a senior researcher in international relations and cooperation. Attias is a member of the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.