Wellington – Carmelo Barbarello, given his approval among the Government of New Zealand, was recently appointed as the new Italian ambassador to Wellington. Barbarello entered the diplomatic service in 1994 and began his professional career at the Foreign Ministry at the Directorate General for Personnel and Administration, and then at the Press and Information Service. In 1997, he began working for the Italian embassy in Addis Ababa, where he served as the Secretary of Trade until 2000. During the same year, he became Italian Consul in Athens. In 2004, he entered the Directorate General for Multilateral Economic and Financial Cooperation, where he served as Deputy Head of UAMA. In 2008, he moved to Buenos Aires, where he served as First Commercial Counselor for the Italian Embassy. In 2012, he became Head of the Sistema Paese at the Italian Embassy in New Delhi. (9Colonne)
