President of the CDP Foundation since November 2020, President of SIMEST and Chief International Affairs Officer of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti.
He entered the diplomatic career in 1999 and held his first positions in Rome, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 2001 he was Chief of Staff of the OSCE International Mission in Belgrade and the following year he was in Pristina to inaugurate the Italian Diplomatic Office in Kosovo.
In 2007 he returned to Rome at the Office of the Diplomatic Advisor of Palazzo Chigi where he was appointed Head of the G8 / G20 Sherpa Office.
In 2009 he was sent to Paris at the OECD Secretariat to take up the position of Director of the Heiligendamm / L’Aquila Process.
Since 2011 he has been seconded from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Eni as head of International Institutional Relations and head of the Eni office in the United States. From April 2017 to December 2019 he was the Ambassador of Italy to Qatar.