Paolo Cuculi

Ambassador of Italy to South Africa -

Paolo Cuculi has been Ambassador of Italy in Pretoria since April 15, 2019. Previously and in recent years, at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he served at the Directorate-General for Development Cooperation, of which he became Deputy Director-General and Central Director for Programming and Implementation of Cooperation Initiatives. Since 2010 he served first as First Counsellor, then as Minister Plenipotentiary, at the Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, during Italy’s three-year term as Member of the UN Human Rights Council. Starting from 2006, he was First Counsellor at the Mission to the United Nations in New York, during Italy’s two-year term as Member of the UN Security Council.