MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

• 1960-1964   Officer, Italian Air Force, Rome
  
  
• 1965-1966   Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) – Rome
  
  
• 1967-1971   EC Official.  Stationed in Luxembourg and Brussels
  
  
• 1971-1974   Seconded by the EC to the Ministry of Planning, Industry and Mines of the Republic of Upper-Volta (now Burkina Faso)
  
  
• 1975-1980   EC Official.  Stationed in Brussels
  
  
• 1980-1983   Head of the Commission Delegation in the Republic of Mali
  
  
• 1983-1984   Head of the Task Force in charge of the ACP/EC Lomé III negotiations
  
  
• 1985-1997   EC Head of Division. Relations with Thirds Countries (Africa, Mediterranean and East European Countries)
  
  
• 1997-1998   Director, Human and Financial Resources, DG Development. Member of the Advisory Committee on Procurement and Contracts (ACPC)
  
  
• 1998-2000   Director, Negotiator for Hungary. Task Force Accession Negotiations and DG Enlargment
  
  
• 2000-2004   Director-General, EuropeAid Co-operation Office of the EC
  
  
• 2004-now    EC Senior advisor, Member of the Strategic Council of the St. Joseph University (Lebanon), Member of the Scientific Committee of the Téresys Foundation

• Secondary school: Maturità scientifica, Rome 1959

• University: Faculties of Economics, Commerce and of Statistics -Rome

• Doctorate in Statistical Sciences and Demography

• Post Graduate courses in O. R. and Management

• Long lasting international and EU experience, covering multilateral and bilateral relations, political, economic cooperation, development programmes in various geographical areas such as CEEC, NIS, Balkans, Mediterranean and ACP countries.