After a period at the Ministry at the Directorate General for Cultural and Scientific and Technical Cooperation, where he is in charge of organizing events to raise awareness of Italian cinema abroad.

Upon his return to Rome, he is assigned to the Directorate General for Political Affairs where he continues to follow the activities of the CSCE, also participating in the Vienna negotiations for the drafting of the "Paris Charter".

In 2002 he returned to the Ministry to serve again in the Directorate General for Multilateral Political Affairs and Human Rights where he directs the Office responsible for the OSCE.

Appointed Minister Plenipotentiary in 2007, from the following year he was Coordinator for Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Caucasus at the Directorate General for the Countries of Europe.

Back at the Farnesina, from 1984 to 1985 he was directly employed by the Head of the Press and Information Service and from 1985 to 1986 at the Directorate General for Political Affairs.

Again at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is directly dependent on the Director General for Multilateral Economic and Financial Cooperation, seconded to Sanpaolo IMI.