Deputy Central Director for Sub-Saharan African Countries, DGMO – MAECI
Fabrizio Lobasso has been a diplomatic official since 1997. He is currently deputy central director for Sub-Saharan African countries at MAECI and, before returning to Rome, he was consul in Athens and Italian ambassador in Khartoum. In 2017, he founded the world’s first chair in intercultural diplomacy at the University of International Studies in Rome (UNINT) where he is currently an adjunct professor. He completed his education at Harvard (public leadership) and the Geneva Center for Security Policy (violent extremism). He holds a PhD in political science (Sufism and radicalism in Sudan) and is a visiting professor at El Nilein University in Khartoum.