Classic

A career diplomat with 32 years of experience, he was Italian Ambassador to Austria (2013-2017) and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Italian Embassy to Spain (2005–2009).

Previously he served at the Permanent Mission of Italy to the European Union in Brussels (2001–2005) and to the United Nations in New York (1994-1998), where he represented Italy to the Executive Board of UNICEF and UNDP. In 1996, during Italy’s six-month Presidency of the European Union, he served as EU negotiator in the UN working group on the Agenda for Development.

At the Foreign Ministry in Rome he was Division Chief for Legal Affairs.

Entered the diplomatic service in 1987, his first overseas assignment was in Bucharest, where he served at the Italian Embassy to Romania (1990-1994) as First Secretary for Trade.

He is a Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Knight Grand Cross of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. He received the highest decoration from the Republic of Austria and the Star of Diplomacy from Lithuania.

Political path.
He began to actively participate in political life in Umbria, in 2008, with the meet-up 53 in Perugia and two years later, in 2010, he was chosen as the candidate spokesperson for the presidency of the Umbria Region. In the 2013 political elections he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies thus joining the collective that transformed an extra-parliamentary civic experience into a political group with massive representation in both branches of Parliament.

Battles in the institutions.
Since May 2013 he has been a member of the Agriculture and Fight Against Counterfeiting Commission at the Chamber of Deputies. He played the role of spokesperson by gathering and coordinating the ideas and energies of many men and women who led to the presentation of bills in the field of labeling and the fight against counterfeiting, as well as numerous legislative initiatives such as the reform of the Corps. of the Fire Brigade. In September 2013 he participated, together with some colleagues, in the protest on the roof of Palazzo Montecitorio to oppose the changes to the Constitution proposed by the Letta government. A series of rules that would have distorted the very meaning of Article 138 of the Constitutional Charter. In December 2013 he occupied the government desks to try to avoid ratification of the Agreement between Albania, Greece and Italy on the "Trans Adriatic Pipeline" (TAP) gas pipeline project. In January 2004, after the vote of confidence in the IMU-Bankitalia decree, a real sale by the Bank of Italy in favor of private banks, which the opposition was unable to avoid, and which cost him a good 15 days of expulsion. In January 2017, together with her colleague Tiziana Ciprini, she won the appeal against the Italicum electoral law.

Roles covered.
In the elections of 4 March 2018 he was re-elected as a deputy in the 18th legislature, once again joining the Agriculture Commission. On 21 June he was elected President of the Agriculture Commission of the Chamber.

Fabrizio Lobasso has been a diplomatic official since 1997.
He is currently Deputy Central Director for Sub-Saharan African Countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and, before returning to Rome, he was head of the commercial economic office in Santiago de Chile, consul in Athens and Italian ambassador in Khartoum.
During his career he has been involved in commercial diplomacy, press and communication, multilateralism in the G8 sphere, international competitions and candidacies and political strategy towards the Horn of Africa and East Africa.
In 2017 he founded the first world chair of intercultural diplomacy at the University of International Studies of Rome (UNINT) where he is currently a lecturer. For years you have been conducting research and publishing essays on the relationship between intercultural phenomena and international relations. You conduct training activities in parallel in the main Italian universities and research and training centers, in the areas of leadership, intercultural communication, public speaking, mediation and international negotiation as well as conflict management.
He completed his training at Harvard (Executive Education Certificate in public leadership) and the Geneva Center for Security Policy (violent extremism).
He holds a doctorate in political science (Sufism and radicalism in Sudan) and is a visiting professor at El Nilein University in Khartoum.
He is a member of the steering committee of the E4Impact Foundation in Milan.

In 1993 Dr. Fabrizio Damiani graduated in Biological Sciences by discussing an experimental thesis entitled: "Study on RNA editing of orf522 in the mitochondrial genome of the CMS89 line of Girasole", and reporting the grade of 110/110 with honors. In 1997 he obtained a specialization diploma in Biotechnological Applications at the University of Bari, discussing an experimental thesis entitled: "Complexity of the mitochondrial genome of Avena (Avena sativa)", reporting the mark of 50/50 with honors. In 2002 he obtained the title of PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with a thesis entitled: Study of the expression of genes for tRNA in the mitochondria of higher plants. Since 2002 he has worked in the laboratory of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Biology of the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies of the University of Salento as a laboratory technician. Since 2006 he has been a tenured researcher in the scientific-disciplinary sector bio / 11 Molecular Biology at the University of Salento. In 2017 he obtained the National Scientific Qualification for the role of Associate Professor in the BIO / 11 Molecular Biology sector.

Sociologist and expert in international politics, she has dealt in particular with migrations and refugees, conflicts, religious issues, minorities. Former Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.