Ferdinando Nelli Feroci

Position: 
President
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Contact person by email
Expertise: 
Italy's foreign policy
European Union

Ferdinando Nelli Feroci is president of the IAI. A diplomat from 1972 to 2013, he was Permanent Representative of Italy to the European Union in Brussels (2008-13), Chief of Staff (2006-08) and Director General for European Integration (2004-06) at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Previously, he served in New York at the United Nations, in Algiers, Paris and Beijing. He also served as Diplomatic Counsellor of the Vice President of the Italian Council of Ministers (1998).
In June 2014 he was appointed to the post of European Commissioner in the Commission chaired by Manuel Barroso to replace Antonio Tajani, a position he held until the end of the mandate of the Commission on 1 November 2014.
Formerly a Fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (1985-86), and Visiting Professor at the Istituto Universitario Orientale of Naples (1989), he is currently a professor at the School of Government of LUISS, Rome.
He is the author of many articles and essays on international relations, European affairs and political affairs.

EU-UK Relations After the High Level Conference

Ferdinando Nelli Feroci
Rome, IAI, June 2020, 3 p.
In: IAI Commentaries

European Vision and Ambition Needed: Italy and Germany Must Promote a Global EU Response to COVID-19

Tobias Bunde, Ferdinando Nelli Feroci, Boris Ruge [...]
Rome, IAI, April 2020, 5 p.
In: IAI Commentaries

The Future of the European Union: Scenarios for the Start of the New Legislature

Ferdinando Nelli Feroci
Rome, IAI, November 2019, 4 p.
In: IAI Commentaries

The "Yellow-Green" Government's Foreign Policy

Ferdinando Nelli Feroci
Rome, IAI, April 2019, 12 p.
In: IAI Papers

La politica estera del Governo giallo-verde

Ferdinando Nelli Feroci
Rome, IAI, March 2019, 15 p.
In: Documenti IAI

Italy and the EU: On a Collision Course?

Ferdinando Nelli Feroci
Rome, IAI, February 2019, 4 p.
In: IAI Commentaries

Perché malgrado tutto l'Europa ci conviene

Ferdinando Nelli Feroci
in Marco Piantini (a cura di), Forum sulle prospettive dell'Unione europea, Roma, Donzelli, 2019, p. 155-158 (Quaderni CeSPI ; 1)
In: Other papers/articles

L'Italia al bivio. Rapporto sulla politica estera italiana, Edizione 2018

Ettore Greco,
Rome, Nuova Cultura, July 2018, 186 p.
In: Quaderni IAI

Trade without Trump: The Way Forward, a European Perspective

Ferdinando Nelli Feroci
Rome, IAI, May 2018, 4 p.
In: IAI Commentaries

Trade Without Trump

Ferdinando Nelli Feroci
in The 2018 Council of Councils Annual Conference Panelist Papers, May 2018, p. 4-7
In: Other papers/articles