Alessandra Schiavo is Deputy Director General/Central Director for Asian and Oceanic Countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
Her first posting abroad was at the Italian Embassy in Tel Aviv, where she was responsible for political and press affairs between February 1997 and December 2000.
In January 2001, she became First Commercial Secretary in Brussels, where the following year she joined the Secretariat of the European Convention, a temporary body of the European Union that proposed the first draft of the European Constitution. In July 2003, she was promoted to Legation Counsellor and in September 2003, after the work of the European Convention was completed, she returned to Rome to the Office of the Diplomatic Adviser to the President of the Italian Republic.
In 2008, she was appointed First Counsellor and in April 2010, she became Consul General in Hong Kong, where she remained until July 2014. Upon her return to Rome, she became Head of the Office for Relations with Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia at the Directorate for Political Affairs. In January 2015, she was seconded to the Ministry of Economic Development as diplomatic advisor to the member of the government responsible for foreign trade and investment attraction. A minister plenipotentiary since 2016, she speaks fluent English, French and Spanish, knows Portuguese and has studied German, Arabic and Hebrew.
Before returning to Italy, she was Italian Ambassador to Myanmar from 2018.