H.E. Mr. Andrea Perugini is an experienced diplomat with almost 40 years of career in the Italian diplomatic corps. Starting in 1983 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ DG for Cultural Relations (1983-1985), he was soon posted abroad – in Luanda, Angola, where he remained for three years (1985-1988).
After having achieved the grade of First Secretary, from 1989 to 1993 Mr. Perugini joined Italy’s Permanent Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament of the United Nations in Geneva. There, he started dealing with issues related to disarmament – a topic that he continued to work on in the following years at the MFA’s Office for Disarmament, Non-proliferation, and Arms Control in Rome (1993-1996).
In 1996, Mr. Perugini was posted once again abroad. First, he moved to Bejing, where he became Head of the Economic and Commercial Section at the Italian Embassy (1996-2000) and co-founded the Italian Chamber of Commerce in China. Then, he was posted at the OECD in Paris (2000-2004), where he worked on a wide array of governance-related issues. It was only in 2004 that Mr. Perugini came back to Rome, where he started to work at the DG for European Integration – first heading the ‘European Union Economic and Budget Affairs’ office (2004-2006), and then acting as the MFA’s Coordinator on the EU’s Internal Market and Lisbon Strategy.
After four years in Rome, Mr. Perugini was sent once again to Asia – this time in Vietnam, where he represented Italy with the grade of Ambassador (2008-2010). When he returned to the Ministry in late 2010, he soon became Deputy Director General/Principal Director for Asia, Oceania, and the Pacific (2010-2016). In this role, he was Italy’s Senior Official Leader for the ASEM Summits in Vientiane (2012) and Milano (2014), as well as for the EU-ASEAN process.
It was from this position that, Ambassador Perugini left Italy to come to The Hague. Ambassador Perugini speaks an outstanding number of languages. He is fluent in Italian, English, French and Portuguese. His is married to Mariska Perugini-Viser and have a daughter, Matanja Perugini. The whole diplomatic community welcome him in this new experience!
