Luca Fratini

Ambassador Luca Fratini is a diplomat from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy. He started his diplomatic career in 1992 and served in many countries on many continents, and the international multilateral environment.

He has held, inter alia, the position of Consul in Locarno (Switzerland); Deputy Ambassador in Harare (Zimbabwe) and Rabat (Morocco); Deputy Head of the Near East Department at the MFA; Head of the Political and Press Office in Paris (France); Ambassador of Italy to Ghana and Togo.

From 2013 to 2016, he served as Deputy Permanent Representative to Rome-based UN Agencies. From 2017 to 2019, Ambassador Fratini was Deputy Permanent Representative of Italy to the OSCE in Vienna and Chairperson of the Preparatory Committee during the Italian Chairmanship in 2018. In 2019 he was appointed by the Slovak Chairmanship as Chair of the Informal Working Group on Civil Society Participation to OSCE events.

Luca holds a degree in Economics (cum laude) from the LUISS University of Rome. He has been speaker and moderator in a number of international conferences.