Alessandro Minuto Rizzo has been NATO Deputy Secretary General from 2001 until 2007. Previously he held positions as Ambassador of Italy to the Western European Union and to the Committee for Policy and Security of the European Union; Diplomatic Counsellor of the Italian Minister of Defence and the Minister for Coordination of European Policies; and Coordinator for European Union Affairs at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As a Diplomatic Counsellor of the Minister for the Budget and Economic Planning he dealt with European Structural funds, Cohesion policy, State aid. As a Head of the Desk for EEC External Relations he worked on trade and institutional issues.

He has also been Head of the Italian delegation to the European Committee for financing transport projects in the European Union, Chairman of the Administrative and Financial Committee of the European Space Agency (ESA) and of the Committee for Territorial Development of the EU, as well as Member of various panels to verify the implementation of investment projects, of the French-Italian Management Board of the high-speed project Lyon-Turin, Personal Representative of the Italian Prime Minister for the Trans-European Networks and their negotiations, Member of the Management Board of the Italian Space Agency and Delegate to the Council of the ESA.

He published various articles in reviews such as Aspenia, The International Spectator, Relazioni Internazionali and Mediterranean Quarterly Review.

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