Since February 2021, she has been a member of the Aspen Institute,[43][44] an international think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., which includes many financiers, businessmen, and politicians.[45][46][47] On 19 February 2021, the University of Siena professor Giovanni Gozzini insulted Meloni calling her vulgar names from a radio; both the president Sergio Mattarella and the prime minister Mario Draghi phoned Meloni and stigmatized Gozzini, who was suspended by the board of his university.[48][49] In October 2021, she signed the Madrid Charter,[50] a 2020 document that describes left-wing groups as enemies of Ibero-America involved in a "criminal project" that are "under the umbrella of the Cuban regime".[51] It was drafted by Vox, a Spanish ultranationalist party. She also took part at Vox's party congress.[52] In February 2022, she spoke at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida. She told the attending American conservative activists and officials they must defend their views against progressives.[53]