Speaker Bio

• Journalist at the leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera since 1988

• Foreign correspondent since 2001

• In 1998 I interviewed the Jugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic few hours before he was arrested

• In 2001 in Kabul at the Taliban run away

• In 2003 first journalist to show the last hide out of Saddam Hussein

• In 2004 24 hours under attack in Nassiriya (Iraq) by Muqtada Al Sadr's militias and interviewed his field officer who was wanted by the international coalition

• In 2005 first reportage about the illegal purchase of organs by Italian citizens

• In 2010 first to show the repression of the Iranian regime against the “green wave” in Teheran

• In 2022 in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol during the Russian siege for 4 days

• In 2024 the only international journalist to enter Syria the very first day of the president Bashar al-Assad escape

• Interviews with world leaders such as the Peruvian president Hugo Chavez, the Russian presidents Michail Gorbacev, Boris Eltsin and Vladimir Putin. Kurdish president Massoud Barzani. Iraqi PM Jalal Talabani. Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad. Spanish prime ministers Mariano Rajoy and Pedro Sánchez. Afghan presidents Burahuddin Rabbani and Hamid Karzai, and many others.

Works:

• The play for theatre "Gli Altri, storie di burqa, amore e rabbia nel secolo del Jihad” (Teatro Officina 2019)

• The essay: “Nassiriya, bugie tra pace e guerra” (Editori Riuniti 2006)

• The essay: “Gli Altri siamo noi” (Rubbettino Publishing 2021)

• The novel: “Il romanzo di Mariupol” (Solferino Editore, 2013) traslated in Spanish and Ukranian

• Video-reportages aired on national TV channel