Gianni Rufini

Gianni (Giovanni) Rufini was born in Rome, Italy in 1954. He is an expert of international humanitarian aid and the Director General of Amnesty International in Italy.

Former Director of VOICE (1997-2001), Subject Matter Expert for NATO (2007-13); senior trainer for the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism (2005-present). He is also a researcher, a lecturer for several universities worldwide, and a columnist on humanitarian and human rights issues.

Since 1996 he is Associate Fellow of the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit, at the University of York (UK). He is Course Coordinator at the Institute for International Politics Studies in Milan. He lectures on humanitarian aid in several universities, including Sapienza University in Rome, Bocconi and Bicocca in Milan, Scuola Superiore S.Anna in Pisa, IUAV in Venice, American University (Washington and Rome), ULB (Brussels), Paris Sorbonne, Legon (Ghana), Bethlehem (OPT). He has been a faculty of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre from 1995 to 1998.

A former media-man, with a background in anthropology, since 1985, he has worked in development and humanitarian aid for several International NGOs (Relief International, Movimondo, Handicap International, ActionAid, Intersos, NCCI, ReC) and UN agencies (FAO and UNDP-UNOPS). From 1985 to 1994, he has carried out field work in India, Ghana, Palestine and Argentina as Programme Director, in activities ranging from rural development to health aid and assistance to street children. He has been engaged in over 60 missions in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the Balkans.


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