Barbara Contini

September 22, 1961

Milan, Province of Milan, Italy

She earned two Bachelor in Political science and Japanese language at the University of Naples Federico II, then she obtained a master"s degree in Business Management and Administration and several advanced courses in peacekeeping, crisis situations, humanitarian operations. She started her international activity working with the United Nations Development Programme (United Nations Development Programme) in 1988. Foreign almost thirty years she has worked all over the world, especially in developing nations and crisis areas, included Japan, Singapore, Nepal, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Europe, United States of America, Canada, Cuba, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, India, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Mauritania, Senegal, Nigeria, Tunisia, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Iraq, Kuwait, Sudan, Darfur, Chad, Kenya, Australia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Sweden, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Republic of Macedonia, Albania, Jordan, Tanzania, Israel, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, North of Korea, China, Uganda, Panama, Canada. She was Special Representative of the Italian Prime Minister for Darfur, Sudan, from 2004 to 2006. She served as Governor of the Dhi Qar Province in Iraq, Nasiriyah, with the Coalition Provisional Authority led by ambassador Paul Bremer in Iraq, from 2003 to 2004. She was Regional Director of the Organization for Security and Company-operation in Europe (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1999 to 2002. She was special international observer of the Organization for Security and Company-operation in Europe (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) in Sarajevo from 1997 to 1999. She speaks Italian, English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Serbo-Croatian, Arabic.

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Contini was born in Milan.

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She earned two Bachelor in Political science and Japanese language at the University of Naples Federico II, then she obtained a master"s degree in Business Management and Administration and several advanced courses in peacekeeping, crisis situations, humanitarian operations. She started her international activity working with the United Nations Development Programme (United Nations Development Programme) in 1988. Foreign almost thirty years she has worked all over the world, especially in developing nations and crisis areas, included Japan, Singapore, Nepal, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Europe, United States of America, Canada, Cuba, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, India, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Mauritania, Senegal, Nigeria, Tunisia, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Iraq, Kuwait, Sudan, Darfur, Chad, Kenya, Australia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Sweden, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Republic of Macedonia, Albania, Jordan, Tanzania, Israel, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, North of Korea, China, Uganda, Panama, Canada.

She was Special Representative of the Italian Prime Minister for Darfur, Sudan, from 2004 to 2006.

She served as Governor of the Dhi Qar Province in Iraq, Nasiriyah, with the Coalition Provisional Authority led by ambassador Paul Bremer in Iraq, from 2003 to 2004. She was Regional Director of the Organization for Security and Company-operation in Europe (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1999 to 2002.

She was special international observer of the Organization for Security and Company-operation in Europe (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) in Sarajevo from 1997 to 1999. She speaks Italian, English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Serbo-Croatian, Arabic.

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From 2008 to 2013 she was an Italian senator elected with The People of Freedom, member of Defense Commission, member of Foreign Affairs Commission, member of Human Rights Commission, president Bilateral Parliamentary Association of Italy Iraq.

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