Roberto Toscano, Italian Ambassador to India spring 2017
Roberto Toscano has been Italy’s Ambassador to India (2008-2010), after being for five years (2003-2008) Ambassador to Iran.
Until 2003, he was Head of Policy Planning at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and chaired the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee Network on conflict, peace, and development co-operation.
As a career diplomat, he has served in a number of other posts (Chile, USSR, Spain, United States, as well as at Italy’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations at Geneva).
He holds a degree in law from the University of Parma and an M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, which he attended as a Fulbright fellow. In 1987-88 he was a Fellow at the Center for International Affairs of Harvard University.
From 2000-2003 he was a visiting professor of international relations in the Department of Political Science at LUISS University in Rome. Today is a visiting professor at IE University, Madrid.
He is the author of books and articles (on human rights, peacekeeping, conflict prevention, ethics, and international relations) published in Italy, the U.S., France, and Spain.
For more information on the visiting professor, please consult Roberto Toscano’s personal website: www.robertotoscano.org
