The Embassy informs that
Antonella Cavallari
took up the position of Ambassador of Italy in Nicosia
Graduated in Political Science at the University of Florence, she joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through a diplomatic competition in 1987. He then worked first in Rome in the Directorate General for Economic Affairs and, starting in 1991, in various foreign countries, with different functions. She was First Commercial Secretary at the Italian Embassy in Cairo, then Head of the Consular Chancery at the Italian Embassy in Tokyo.
Subsequently, starting in 1998, she returned to Rome as Head of the Office responsible for the numerous problems of compatriots residing abroad, assisting the network of Italian Embassies and Consulates in dealing with the most complex issues, from assistance in civil and criminal matters to child abduction. Subsequently, appointed head of the competent office, she organized the first political and referendum elections in which Italian citizens outside Italy voted in their respective countries of residence. Also at the Ministry, he took on the position of Head of the Secretariat of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Franco Danieli and of the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Vincenzo Scotti. In 2013 she was appointed Ambassador of Italy to Paraguay, a country where she worked until 2016, when she returned to Rome to take on the functions of Central Director for Latin American Countries and Deputy Director General of Globalization, taking care of the management of complex bilateral relations with the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Together with this position, she was appointed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs pro tempore as Delegate of the Italian Government to the IILA, the Italian-Latin American International Organization, holding the role of Vice President. From 2020 to 2025, she was Secretary General of the same Organization, working in synergy with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with the Governments of the other 20 member countries of the IILA to strengthen relations with Italy and the European Union.
