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The Permanent Representative

Ambassador Vincenzo Celeste

Born in Naples on 6 September 1962, he graduated in Law from the University Federico II of Naples on 9 July 1987. He joined the diplomatic service on 13 February 1989.

From 14 November 1989 he served at the Directorate General for Migration and Social Affairs, first in the Office for Italians in the Americas and Oceania and later in the same Directorate General’s Secretariat.

On 3 May 1993 he was appointed Second Secretary at the Italian Embassy in Damascus.

On 21 July 1997 he was appointed First Secretary and later Counsellor at the Italian Embassy in Sofia.

Upon returning to Rome, in December 2000, he was assigned to the General Directorate for Multilateral Political Affairs and Human Rights at the Disarmament Office and from 3 September 2002 to the General Secretariat, Coordination Unit.

Embassy Counsellor on 2 July 2004, from 19 September 2005 he was appointed to the Permanent Representation of Italy to the EU in Brussels, with the rank of First Counsellor.

Returning to Rome again in 2010, he served at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers as Coordinator of the Structure for Procedures for infringement of EU law.

Minister Plenipotentiary on 2 January 2011, he was appointed Diplomatic Counsellor to the Minister for European Affairs from the end of 2011.

On 27 June 2013 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in London and on 10 July

2018 Deputy Chief of Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

On 31 August 2019 he was appointed Director General for Europe and International Trade Policy.

He is Permanent Representative of Italy to the European Union from 17 April 2023.


Awarded the honour of
:
Commendatore dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica italiana, 2021