Sergio Balanzino

Sergio Silvio Balanzino (20 June 1934 – 25 February 2018[1]) was an Italian diplomat.

[2] He studied as a Brittingham Foreign Scholar at the University of Wisconsin in Madison 1956–1957.

After graduating in Law from the University of Rome La Sapienza he joined the Italian foreign service in 1958.

Firstly by replacing Manfred Wörner on 13 August 1994 after the latter resigned in the last stages of cancer.

Balanzino, who had gone back to being Deputy, again took over the reins until he was replaced on 5 December 1995 by Javier Solana.