Carlo Curti Gialdino is Vice-President of the International Diplomatic Institute. He is a former full professor of European Union Law in the Department of Political Science at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, where he teaches international and European diplomatic and consular law. He was a legal secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Communities from October 1982 to April 2000. He is the author of numerous publications on European Union law, international law and diplomatic and consular law. In 2024, he published the seventh edition of the manual “International and European Diplomatic and Consular Law”.