Business and program management

Maria Vitagliano
Managing Director


Maria Vitagliano is the managing director of the Crosspoint Europe, association based in Vaduz FL, which she founded in 2009. Since 2003 Maria Vitagliano had been Deputy Director and, in 2010 became the overall Director of the Green Cross International Social and Medical Care Program. Previously, she had worked for many years as a social pedagogue, program manager for Eastern Europe and initiated the exchange and encounter projects at the Pestalozzi Children's Foundation, Trogen. She has been teaching the children of the Italian migrant worker families in the Canton of St. Gallen and for 15 years intercultural communication at the police school in Giubiasco and the cantonal police in Ticino. She was also a consultant for the Administration of Palermo and for the Center Padre Nostro in the area of social and educational integration for children and adolescents in the mafia district of Palermo. Maria Vitagliano received a Medal of Honor from the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano. She is a trained primary and secondary school teacher, has a Master in Intercultural Communication, a Master in European Project Management and a Master in European Relations with Institutional Partners.






Christina Bigler
Program Director


Christina Bigler is the program director of Crosspoint Europe. She brings many years of experience as co-owner of a family business and working for international companies in various countries in the for-profit sector. In 1998, Christina Bigler took over the development of the International Social and Medical Care Program for Green Cross Switzerland and implemented therapy camps for children and young people as well as mother and child projects in the radioactively contaminated Chernobyl region, promoting self-help initiatives. Until 2010, Christina Bigler led the International Social and Medical Care Program with partners in Moldova, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Vietnam, for which she received an award from Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Today, she works as an entrepreneur, providing consulting services to foundations and associations. In the areas of project management, fundraising, and evaluation, Christina Bigler knows how to establish sustainable development cooperation in different countries and cultures, so that children, young people, and mothers have hope for the future.