Corrado Maria Daclon was born in Milan in 1963. He has had important institutional and academic roles since he was a youth. He obtained his first university professorship at the University of Camerino in 1990 when he was only 27. Since 1992, he has been professor of geopolitics at the SIOI, the Italian Society of International Organization, for which he was also co-director of Masters programs. In 1994 he was appointed professor at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, on whose behalf over the years he also promoted and co-directed postgraduate Masters programs.

Corrado Maria Daclon has exhaustive experience as an advisor at some of the most important institutional and governmental levels. Among his numerous roles, in 1986 at only 23, he was nominated foreign affairs counselor for the Minister of Environment, in 1988 communications advisor for the Minister of Education, University and Research and in 1990 assistant to the Vice President of the High Council of the Judiciary.

For two years, from 1988, the Minister of Foreign Affairs appointed Corrado Maria Daclon secretary of the European Commission NETT project (Network for Technology Transfer). Starting in 1990 and for almost two decades, he was a consultant in the European Commission as a member of the international work group “Team Europe” in Brussels. In the 1990s he began collaborating as an expert with the same Minister of Foreign Affairs, for whom he has carried out more than 100 international missions in European and non-European countries. Since 1991, mandated by international organizations, he made a deep study of the socio-economic aspects of the war in the Balkans, carrying out more than thirty challenging missions in Bosnia and Croatia during the entire period of the conflict and, in particular, in the Mostar and Sarajevo regions. Starting in 1998, he has been among the consultants and scientific partners of the NATO, in particular, collaborating with the Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, under whose aegis he carried out numerous missions in non-European countries and, among other, he was one of the people in charge of the Observing System Project pertaining to the Caspian Sea Region. In 2000, along with other experts, the Minister of Foreign Affairs appointed him as advisor for the Palestinian Authority territories. He carried out this role in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip areas.

In 2005 Corrado Maria Daclon created the Italy-USA Foundation of which he is Secretary General. The Minister Counselor for Public Affairs of the United States Embassy officially participated in drawing up the Foundation Charter. The Foundation is one of the most important transatlantic think tanks, with more than 120 distinguished personalities from the parliamentary, academic, journalistic and diplomatic worlds, as well as various Nobel Prize winners.

His professional experiences have taken him on assignments to more than 60 countries. Corrado Maria Daclon has written hundreds of articles and editorials published in Italian and international dailies and periodicals. Since 1995 he has been a member of the Italian Journalists Association as a freelance journalist and has published about 20 books. He is the recipient of international awards and recognitions, among which the European Union Special Award and the Diploma Meritorium on the part of the European Commissioner, Stanley Clinton Davis. He speaks fluent Italian, English, French and Spanish.

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