Elisabetta Iberni
Elisabetta Iberni is a Clinical Psychologist and licensed Psychotherapist with over twenty years of experience in mental health, staff wellbeing, and organizational resilience within international and humanitarian settings. She currently serves as Staff Relations and Welfare Officer at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), where she provides confidential counselling to staff and strategic guidance to managers on complex workplace and psychosocial issues, including stress, critical incidents, and team dynamics, while strengthening leadership capacity to foster psychologically safe and resilient work environments. She holds a PhD in Dynamic and Clinical Psychology from the University of Rome “Sapienza”, a PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies from the University of Essex, and an MSc in Occupational Health Psychology from Leiden University. Her experience includes roles with the OPCW, the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as well as other humanitarian organisations, delivering psychosocial support in contexts affected by conflict and crimes against humanity and advancing staff care frameworks for humanitarian personnel and peacekeepers.