Umberto Vattani

Born in Skopje in 1938, Ambassador Umberto Vattani graduated in Law and Political Science from the Luiss University in Rome. In 1965, he was member of the Italian Delegation to the UN General Assembly, later he acted as Minister Counsellor at the Italian Embassy in London and Personal Representative of the Prime Minister for the Summits of the Seven Most Industrialised Countries. In April 1989, he was appointed Ambassador and held his post in the Federal Republic of Germany until 1996. Back in Rome, Vattani held the position of Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 2001, the most important post for a diplomat at the Ministry. From 25 September 2001, he was Italy’s Permanent Representative to the European Union in Brussels.