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Mr. Carmine Soprano is an economist, academic lecturer, and policy advisor with over 15 years of experience working in the development cooperation industry within international financial institutions (IFIs), UN agencies, CSOs, and the private sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his current role at the World Bank Group, Mr. Soprano leads analytical, operational, and high-level policy dialogue work on trade facilitation, regional integration, private sector development, and related gender\/youth ramifications. On the same subjects he regularly advises international organizations, and in the past has held positions within the Inter-American Development Bank and several UN agencies working in 30+ countries across 4 continents. He was an advisor to Italy\u2019s Ministry of Finance during the Italian G20 Presidency in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, Mr. Soprano is an academic lecturer at several Rome universities, including LUISS, \u2018\u2019Tor Vergata\u2019\u2019 University, and SIOI (Italian Society for International Organizations), of which he is a member. He holds an \u2018\u2019Emerging Leaders\u2019\u2019 executive certificate from Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), an Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA) from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), and a Master\u2019s Degree in Economic & Social Sciences from \u2018\u2019Tor Vergata\u2019\u2019 University, and speaks fluent English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As freelance journalist & blogger, Mr. Soprano is a contributor to the World Bank Group\u2019s and the World Economic Forum\u2019s blogs and to Corriere della Sera (Italy\u2019s leading newspaper), and is regularly interviewed by national and international TVs. He is co-founder of \u2018\u2019Orchestra Arcus Regalis\u2019\u2019, a classical music orchestra affiliated with \u2018\u2019Santa Cecilia\u2019\u2019 Conservatory of Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5141,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCarmine Soprano - Festival della Diplomazia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mr. Carmine Soprano is an economist, academic lecturer, and independent advisor with almost 15 years of experience working in the international development\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/carmine-soprano\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Carmine Soprano - Festival della Diplomazia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mr. Carmine Soprano is an economist, academic lecturer, and independent advisor with almost 15 years of experience working in the international development\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/carmine-soprano\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Festival della Diplomazia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-04T07:11:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Schermata-2022-10-03-alle-12.46.13.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"303\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/carmine-soprano\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/carmine-soprano\/\",\"name\":\"Carmine Soprano - 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