Michele Chiaruzzi

Michele Chiaruzzi (born September 12, 1983, in San Marino) is a Sammarinese academic and diplomat, since 2008 ambassador of San Marino to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A Clare Hall, Cambridge life member,[3] and professor at the University of Bologna,[1] he is the founding director of the Research Centre for International Relations at the University of San Marino.

[4] Appointed at age 25 in 2008, Chiaruzzi has served as first resident ambassador of San Marino to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[5][6] His unusual diplomatic figure has attracted international media attention,[7] also featuring in Goran Milic's documentary for Al Jazeera "Alkemija Balkana".

[8] In July 2010, on his initiative, the municipality of Chiesanuova in San Marino placed a plaque in memory of the Srebrenica genocide, one of the first monuments in Europe dedicated to it.

Ambassador Michele Chiaruzzi with Bosnia and Herzegovina's Presidency member Haris Silajdžić in 2008
Official card of the Sammarinese Minister of Foreign Affairs, featuring Chiaruzzi's sculpture Dialogue