13 November 2015
Her Excellency Laura Carpini, the Italian Ambassador to Ghana, will visit Ashesi University on November 25. As part of her visit she will speak on migration and its foreign policy implications.
Carpini has been the Ambassador of Italy to Ghana since October 2012. Her jurisdiction extends to Togo. Since 1994, when she joined the Italian Foreign Service, she has been assigned to various positions both at the headquarters in Rome and abroad. She served as Deputy Consul at the Italian Consulate General in New York from 1998 to 2002, as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Italian Embassy in Cuba from 2002 to 2006, and as Head of the Political and Consular Sections at the Italian Embassy in India from 2010 to 2012.
From 2006 to 2010 she headed the Human Rights Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during the year when Italy and the EU successfully brought the Resolution on the moratorium of the death penalty in 2007 at the UN General Assembly. At the headquarters she was also assigned to the Latin America Political Department and to the Cabinet of the Political Director.
She graduated cum laude at the Faculty of Political Sciences “Cesare Alfieri” of the University of Florence, besides studying at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain. Before joining the Italian Foreign Service, she worked as a Manager at France Cinema, French Cinema Festival of Florence.
She is fluent in English, French and Spanish, speaks German and has knowledge of Portuguese. She is married with a daughter, and loves music, reading, cinema, swimming and cooking.
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