Permanent Representative of Italy to the North Atlantic Council
Rappresentanza Permanente presso il Consiglio Atlantico in Bruxelles
StyleHis Excellency
Inaugural holderAlberto Rossi Longhi [it]
FormationNovember 21, 1950

The Italian Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council is the Permanent Representative of the Italian government to the North Atlantic Council.


Diplomatic accreditation Permanent Representative Observations List of prime ministers of Italy Term end
November 21, 1950 Alberto Rossi Longhi [it] Minister Plenipotentiary and Ambassador Ferruccio Parri May 31, 1954
June 1, 1954 Adolfo Alessandrini [it] Amintore Fanfani January 17, 1958
January 18, 1958 Umberto Grazzi [it] Amintore Fanfani May 8, 1959
May 9, 1959 Adolfo Alessandrini [it]
  • From January 1959 to May 1959 he was Italian Ambassador to Canada [it]
Antonio Segni October 2, 1967
October 3, 1967 Carlo De Ferrariis Salzano [it] Giovanni Leone January 15, 1971
January 22, 1971 Felice Catalano di Melilli [it] Emilio Colombo January 16, 1980
January 18, 1980 Vincenzo Tornetta

(*He was born in Piazza Armerina (Enna) in 1917 )

  • In 1939 he was graduated in Political Science at the University of Florence.
  • In 1948 he entered the diplomatic service.
  • From 1951 to 1955 he was assigned to Caracas.
  • In 1955 he was transferred to the United Nations Representation in New York.
  • In 1961 he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • From 1964 to 1967 he was sent back to New York.
  • From 1965 to 1966, in the period in which Amintore Fanfani was president of the UN General Assembly he served in the United Nations Secretariat.
  • From 1967 to 1972 he was Italian Ambassador to Vietnam (Saigon).
  • In 1972 he became Director General of Emigration Social Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy).
  • In 1974 he was appointed general director of the Italo-Latin American Institute [it].[1]
Francesco Cossiga April 14, 1983
April 14, 1983 Sergio Romano (writer) Bettino Craxi September 18, 1985
September 19, 1985 Francesco Paolo Fulci Bettino Craxi January 15, 1991
June 15, 1991 Enzo Perlot (*born on November 17, 1933, in Mezzolombardo)
  • Son of the late Augusto and Ida (Paoli) Perlot.
  • In 1989 he was Italian Ambassador to Portugal.[citation needed]
Giulio Andreotti May 6, 1993
July 26, 1993 Giovanni Jannuzzi

(*Born in Rome, November 6, 1935 )

  • From 1980 to 1982 he was Italian Ambassador to Nigeria (Lagos). [2]
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi May 1, 1998
May 2, 1998 Amedeo De Franchis (*born on 9th August 1939 in Naples)
  • From 1984 to January 1988 he was Italian Ambassador to Pakistan.[3]
Massimo D’Alema September 6, 2002
September 7, 2002 Maurizio Moreno [it] Silvio Berlusconi February 22, 2007
April 12, 2007 Stefano Stefanini Silvio Berlusconi December 1, 2010
December 12, 2010 Riccardo Sessa [it] Silvio Berlusconi December 31, 2012
January 21, 2013 Gabriele Checchia Mario Monti September 19, 2014
October 1, 2014 Maria Angela Zappia Caillaux Minister Plenipotentiary Matteo Renzi March 6, 2016
March 7, 2016 Claudio Bisogniero (* born in Rome, on July 2 1954)[4] Matteo Renzi April 12, 2019
April 15, 2019 Francesco Talò (* born in La Spezia, on August 16, 1958)[5] Giuseppe Conte February 12, 2021

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