Armando Sanguini is ISPI’s Senior Advisor on the Middle East. He led Italy’s diplomatic mission in Chile and was Italian Ambassador to Tunisia and Saudi Arabia. His diplomatic career dates back to 1968, and much of his time spent in service abroad (Ethiopia, Germany and Spain). He served as Assistant to the Secretary General for the reform of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as Director General for the promotion of cultural relations abroad, and as Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Italian cultural institutes and Italian language schools around the world.