H.E. Marco Conticelli is Italy’s new Ambassador to Sofia, BTA announced on Monday. Conticelli was born in 1961. He graduated in political science from the University of Florence in 1985 and has been a career diplomatic since 1987. Initially, he worked at the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s unit for telecommunications and information coding and, afterwards – at the Directorate General for Personnel and Administration. In 1989, he was second secretary responsible for commercial affairs at the Italian Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan and in 1991, he was Italy’s consul in Seville.

Upon his return to Rome, he worked at the Directorate General for Political Affairs of the Foreign Ministry. In 1998, he was appointed commercial counsellor at Italy’s Embassy in Delhi, India and in 2002, he was first counsellor at Italy’s Permanent Representation of the international organisations in Geneva.

Since 2006, Marco Conticelli has been working at the Foreign Ministry’s EU Integration General Directorate, where he has been coordinator for immigration policies in the EU area since 2011.