{"id":45380,"date":"2021-10-06T18:52:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T16:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/ministero\/viceministri_sottosegretari\/mistura\/"},"modified":"2021-10-06T18:54:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T16:54:21","slug":"mistura","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/ministero\/viceministri_sottosegretari\/mistura\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Minister Staffan de Mistura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45376 img-fluid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/staffandemistura_medium_medium.jpg\" alt=\"Foto Staffan de Mistura\" width=\"160\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Vitae (summary)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born on 25 January 1947 in Stockholm, Sweden.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Studies<\/strong>: Political Science Doctorate, University of Sapienza, Rome. Post graduate courses in \u201cHot Negotiations, Development Economics \u2013 Crisis Management in Conflict Areas\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Languages<\/strong>: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and colloquial Arabic<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nWork Experience:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1971 \u2013 1972<br \/>\n<strong>Southern Sudan<\/strong>: World Food Programme (WFP), United Nations, Project Officer. Main task: Organize convoys of food aid to villages isolated by internal conflict<\/p>\n<p>1972 \u2013 1974<br \/>\n<strong>Rome<\/strong>: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). United Nations. Fund raising officer for multi bilateral projects<\/p>\n<p>1974 \u2013 1976<br \/>\n<strong>New York<\/strong>: FAO Liaison Officer with the United Nations<\/p>\n<p>1976 \u2013 1985<br \/>\n<strong>Rome<\/strong>: Deputy Chief of Cabinet of Director \u2013 General of FAO<\/p>\n<p>1985 \u2013 1986<br \/>\n<strong>Sudan<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 UNICEF: Head of national vaccination campaign: during that period rate of coverage increased from 32 per cent to 71 per cent<\/p>\n<p>1986 \u2013 1987<br \/>\n<strong>Sudan<\/strong>\u00a0WFP: Director of Operations<\/p>\n<p>[1984<br \/>\n<strong>Special Assignment: Ethiopia<\/strong>. Organized and implemented operation \u201cSan Bernardo\u201d with a massive airdrop operation using both NATO and Warsaw Pact air assets to reach 870,000 starving Ethiopians]<\/p>\n<p>[1986<br \/>\n<strong>Special Assignment: Sudan<\/strong>. Organized food airlift to besieged city of Juba (with the assistance of Mother Theresa of Calcutta)]<\/p>\n<p>1987-1988<br \/>\nOn loan from the UN to World Wildlife Fund of Italy (WWF) as Director General. Main task: to re-launch the environmental campaign of WWF and its fund raising \u2013 in one year. With three different campaigns membership went up from 183,000 to 376,000.<\/p>\n<p>1988-1997<br \/>\nOn various troubleshooting assignments for the UN System including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solving the Embassy crisis in Tirana (Albania) when 3,200 people occupied four foreign Embassies to escape from the communist regime<\/li>\n<li>Organizing food aid operation in Afghanistan to populations affected by Soviet\/Mujahidin conflict<\/li>\n<li>Organizing assistance to Kurdish population after the Gulf war<\/li>\n<li>Team Leader of Special Mission searching for Shi\u2019 a population escaped in Southern Iraq marshlands after the bloody repression by Saddam Hussein following the first Gulf war.<\/li>\n<li>Team Leader of UNICEF Mission to break the siege of Dubrovnik ( which was besieged for three months and 4,570 people were evacuated).<\/li>\n<li>Team Leader of UNICEF\u2019s winter relief operation to assist the people of the besieged city of Sarajevo<\/li>\n<li>Director of Public Affairs and UNICEF Team Leader in Somalia during the humanitarian crisis and UN intervention in 1992-1993 Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1997-1999<br \/>\n<strong>Rome<\/strong>: Director of UN Information Center.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During that period was mainly involved in Missions in Kosovo and acted as UN Civilian Administrator of the contested and volatile city of Metrovica<\/li>\n<li>Team Leader of the Special Mission to Iraq related to the \u201cCrisis of the Presidential Palaces\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2000-2004<br \/>\nPersonal Representative of the Secretary-General in Lebanon Main task: Preventive diplomacy in tense southern Lebanon between Syria\/Hezbollah, Israel<\/p>\n<p>2006-2007<br \/>\nExecutive Director of the UN System Staff College in Turin, Italy Main task: Train UN Staff prior to their assignments in conflict environment<\/p>\n<p>2007-2009<br \/>\nUN Special Representative of Secretary-General in Iraq In charge of all UN Operations in the country (730 staff members and 11 locations)<\/p>\n<p>2009-2010<br \/>\nRome Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme<\/p>\n<p>2010-2011, Kabul \u2013Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Afghanistan: In charge of all United Nations operations in that country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curriculum Vitae (summary) Born on 25 January 1947 in Stockholm, Sweden. Studies: Political Science Doctorate, University of Sapienza, Rome. Post graduate courses in \u201cHot Negotiations, Development Economics \u2013 Crisis Management in Conflict Areas\u201d Languages: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and colloquial Arabic Work Experience: 1971 \u2013 1972 Southern Sudan: World Food Programme (WFP), United [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":30722,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45380","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45380\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}