List of ambassadors of Italy to NATO

The Italian Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council is the Permanent Representative of the Italian government to the North Atlantic Council.

Permanent Representative of Italy to the North Atlantic Council
Rappresentanza Permanente presso il Consiglio Atlantico in Bruxelles
Style	His Excellency
Inaugural holder	Alberto Rossi Longhi
Formation	November 21, 1950

Diplomatic accreditation	Permanent Representative	Observations	List of prime ministers of Italy	Term end
November 21, 1950	Alberto Rossi Longhi	Minister Plenipotentiary and Ambassador	Ferruccio Parri	May 31, 1954
June 1, 1954	Adolfo Alessandrini		Amintore Fanfani	January 17, 1958
January 18, 1958	Umberto Grazzi		Amintore Fanfani	May 8, 1959
May 9, 1959	Adolfo Alessandrini	From January 1959 to May 1959 he was Italian Ambassador to Canada	Antonio Segni	October 2, 1967
October 3, 1967	Carlo De Ferrariis Salzano		Giovanni Leone	January 15, 1971
January 22, 1971	Felice Catalano di Melilli		Emilio Colombo	January 16, 1980
January 18, 1980	Vincenzo Tornetta	(*He was born in Piazza Armerina (Enna) in 1917 ) In 1939 he was graduated in Political Science at the University of Florence. In 1948 he entered the diplomatic service. From 1951 to 1955 he was assigned to Caracas. In 1955 he was transferred to the United Nations Representation in New York. In 1961 he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1964 to 1967 he was sent back to New York. From 1965 to 1966, in the period in which Amintore Fanfani was president of the UN General Assembly he served in the United Nations Secretariat. From 1967 to 1972 he was Italian Ambassador to Vietnam (Saigon). In 1972 he became Director General of Emigration Social Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy). In 1974 he was appointed general director of the Italo-Latin American Institute.	Francesco Cossiga	April 14, 1983
April 14, 1983	Sergio Romano (writer)		Bettino Craxi	September 18, 1985
September 19, 1985	Francesco Paolo Fulci		Bettino Craxi	January 15, 1991
June 15, 1991	Enzo Perlot	(*born on November 17, 1933, in Mezzolombardo) Son of the late Augusto and Ida (Paoli) Perlot. In 1989 he was Italian Ambassador to Portugal.	Giulio Andreotti	May 6, 1993
July 26, 1993	Giovanni Jannuzzi	(*Born in Rome, November 6, 1935 ) From 1980 to 1982 he was Italian Ambassador to Nigeria (Lagos).	Carlo Azeglio Ciampi	May 1, 1998
May 2, 1998	Amedeo De Franchis	(*born on 9 August 1939 in Naples) From 1984 to January 1988 he was Italian Ambassador to Pakistan.	Massimo D’Alema	September 6, 2002
September 7, 2002	Maurizio Moreno		Silvio Berlusconi	February 22, 2007
April 12, 2007	Stefano Stefanini		Silvio Berlusconi	December 1, 2010
December 12, 2010	Riccardo Sessa		Silvio Berlusconi	December 31, 2012
January 21, 2013	Gabriele Checchia		Mario Monti	September 19, 2014
October 1, 2014	Maria Angela Zappia Caillaux	Minister Plenipotentiary	Matteo Renzi	March 6, 2016
March 7, 2016	Claudio Bisogniero	(* born in Rome, on July 2 1954)	Matteo Renzi	April 12, 2019
April 15, 2019	Francesco Talò	(* born in La Spezia, on August 16, 1958)	Giuseppe Conte	February 12, 2021