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NATO Deputy Secretary General
Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo
2001 - 2007
Present duties
A strong focus on strategic outlook and negotiations in complex issues.
High level contacts and negotiations with Goverments and International Organizations.
Special attention on Partners, Mediterranean and Gulf countries.
Chairing the North Atlantic Council and various senior Committees.
Frequent Public Diplomacy activities to discuss policies and open issues. Public speeches.
A supervisory role on internal management; reviews of various functions of the Organization (i.e. review of NATO’s Agencies).
A habit to deal with issues cutting accross geographic and thematic areas.
Interacting with very different interlocutors worldwide.
He has the full rank of Ambassador.
He has a solid background acquired holding positions of responsibility in various fields such as economic and industrial affairs, aerospace, transport and energy, trade, regional policy
He promotes change. He advocates sense of purpose accountability and results.
Previous
Positions:
Ambassador of Italy to the Western European Union and to the Committee for Policy and Security of the European Union |
2000 |
| Diplomatic Counsellor of the Minister of Defence (defence policy; defence industry) |
1997 - 2000 |
Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Coordinator for European Union Affairs |
1996 - 1997 |
Diplomatic Counsellor of the Minister for the Budget and Economic Planning (Structural funds, cohesion policy, state aid, Presidents of Italian regions) |
1992 - 1996 |
| Diplomatic Counsellor of the Minister for Coordination of European Policies |
1995-1996 |
| Minister Plenipotentiary |
Jan 1992 |
| Paris OCDE-ESA: Minister Counsellor |
1986-1992 |
| Head of the Desk
for EEC External Relations (trade and institutional issues) |
1981 -1986 |
| Directorate for Economic Affairs: Head of the Desk for Eastern Europe |
1980-1981 |
| Prague: Counsellor |
1975-1980 |
| Washington, D.C.: Second and First Secretary |
1972-1975 |
| Ministry for Foreign Affairs: Directorate of Cultural
Affairs |
1969-1972 |
ISPI: Institute for International Policy, Milan
Various articles : Aspenia, The International Spectator, Relazioni Internazionali, Mediterranean Quarterly Review, etc. |
1967-1968 |
Positions in International and National Bodies:
Head of the delegation to the European Committee for financing transport projects in the European Union |
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1996-2001 |
| Chairman of the Administrative and Financial Committee of the European Space Agency (elected) |
1994-1996 |
Member of various panels to verify the implementation of investment projects. |
1994-1996 |
| Chairman of the Committee for Territorial Development (E.U.) |
1996 |
| Intergovernmental Committee for Economic Planning: author of the Report on the feasibility of a space launcher |
1995 |
| Member of the French-Italian Management Board of the high-speed project Lyon-Turin |
1995-1998 |
| Personal Representative of the Prime Minister for the Trans-European Networks and their negotiations (transport, energy) |
1994-1995 |
| Member of the Management Board of the Italian Space Agency |
1994-1995 |
| Delegate to the Council of the European Space Agency |
1986-1992 |
| Chairman of the "Committee for the commercialisation of space telecommunications" |
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| Chairman of the Assembly of the Parties of Eutelsat |
1989 |
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