Giacomo Guerrera

president UNICEF Italy

Giacomo Guerrera has been the Chair of UNICEF Italy since February 2012.

He is the founding member of UNICEF Italy. He has been for over 28 years the Chair of the UNICEF Genoa Provincial Committee and for several years of the UNICEF Liguria Regional Committee. Afterwards he was nominated Deputy Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Administrative Office of the UNICEF Italian National Committee. He performed field missions for UNICEF in India, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad.

Graduated in Political Science at the University of Genoa, he first worked as a freelance journalist, and from 1980 to 2011 he was the Administrative Director at the San Martino Hospital of Genoa, covering the roles of Director in charge of the Operating Units Budget and Accounting, Business Personnel and Budget and Financial Planning, Director of the Administrative Department of the University Hospital San Martino. He was professor of Health Economics at the Medicine Department of the University of Genoa.

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