[3][4] He is currently serving as Secretary General of the Corpo Italiano di San Lazzaro, Deputy Executive Director of the Centro Studi Internazionali and member of the Advisory Board of the Lazarus Union.
[9] For nearly a decade active in the civil protection field he started his career in the voluntary component of Regione Campania and in the Military Corps of the Italian Red Cross.
[10] Virgili opened the plenary session "Every life counts: inclusive and equality based DRR strategies” with a keynote speech.
[12] Invited by Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of UNDRR, Virgili participated as speaker in the virtual high-level panel, broadcast from the UN headquarters in New York, entitled "Leveraging the Power of Science and Technology to Reduce Tsunami Risk for Current and Future Generations" on the occasion of World Tsunami Awareness Day 2021.
[13] From 2016 Virgili organizes in Italy the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (GIRD – Giornata Internazionale per la Riduzione dei Disastri) for the Corpo Italiano di San Lazzaro.