Claudio Bisogniero (born 2 July 1954) is a retired Italian diplomat. From 2007 until 2012, he was the Deputy Secretary General of NATO before serving as

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(2012–2016). From 2016 until 2019 he was Italy’s Permanent Representative to

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Biography

He graduated from

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in 1976 with a degree in political science. He began his diplomatic career in 1978. He has held important posts in the Italian Embassies in

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, the

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, and in the Italian Representations to NATO and the

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(UN). He also served in the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Italian Republic, Office of the Diplomatic Adviser to the President of the Republic (1988–1989). Since 2008 he has been a member of the

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. From 2002 to 2005 he was Deputy Director General for Multilateral Political Affairs at the

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responsible for UN, NATO, G8, disarmament and human rights issues. From 2005 to 2007 Director General with responsibility for America. On 31 December 2007 he became Deputy Secretary General of NATO in

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, succeeding Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, thus becoming the number two of the Atlantic Alliance after Secretary General

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. He held the post until January 2012 when he was replaced by US Ambassador

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. From 2012 to 2016 he was the Italian Ambassador to the United States in

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. From 2016 to 2019 he was the Italian Permanent Representative to NATO in Brussels. He is married to Laura Denise Noce Benigni Olivieri; they have a daughter and a son.

Honors

Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1st Class / Knight Grand Cross – August 5, 2013

References

External links

INTERVIEW WITH CLAUDIO BISOGNIERO, AMBASSADOR OF ITALY TO THE UNITED STATES
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bisogniero, Claudio Living people Ambassadors of Italy to the United States Permanent representatives of Italy to NATO 20th-century Italian diplomats NATO officials Sapienza University of Rome alumni 1954 births Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic