Barbara Contini (born 22 September 1961) is an Italian politician[1] and an official of international organisations expert on international politics and security.

Early life

Contini was born in Milan. She earned two BA in Political science and Japanese language at the University of Naples Federico II, then she obtained a master's degree in Business Management and Administration and several advanced courses in peacekeeping, crisis situations, humanitarian operations.

Political career

From 2008 to 2013 she was an Italian senator elected with The People of Freedom, member of Defense Commission, member of Foreign Affairs Commission, member of Human Rights Commission, president Bilateral Parliamentary Association of Italy Iraq.

She started her international activity working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1988.

For almost thirty years she has worked in several countries.

She was Special Representative of the Italian Prime Minister for Darfur, Sudan, from 2004 to 2006.

She served as Governor of the Dhi Qar Province in Iraq, Nasiriyah,[2] with the Coalition Provisional Authority[3] led by ambassador Paul Bremer in Iraq, from 2003 to 2004.

She was Regional Director of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1999 to 2002.

She was special international observer of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Sarajevo from 1997 to 1999.

She speaks Italian, English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Serbo-Croatian, Arabic.

File footage of Contini speaking on EuroNews about the invasion of Iraq was used in the 2005 film Caché (Hidden) starring Juliette Binoche.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Sen. Barbara CONTINI - cosa fa in parlamento - OpenParlamento". parlamento16.openpolis.it. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
  2. ↑ Hooper, John (April 20, 2004). "Italians ready to pay ransom for release of hostages held in Iraq". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  3. ↑ Mitchell, Lisa (March 17, 2004). "Basra's success could boil over". BBC News. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  4. ↑ Walker, Elsie (2017). "Caché: The Postcolonial Resonance of Silences and Saying 'Nothing'". Hearing Haneke: The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur. Oxford University Press. pp. 125–151. ISBN 978-0-19-049590-9.


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