Speaker
Federico Failla
Affliation
Embassy of Italy in Seoul
Title
Ambassador
Session

Biography

Federico Failla was born in the Sicilian city of Noto (SR) on May, 6th 1961. From 01/02/85 to 14/04/88 he served as Deputy Head of Office for International Judicial Cooperation and Consular Protection at the Directorate General for Migration and Social Affairs at MoFA.
From 15/04/88 to 14/06/92 he was appointed as Deputy General Consul of Italy to Hong Kong. From 15/06/92 to 12/11/95 he served as Economic and Commercial Counsellor at the Italian Embassy in New Delhi, India. From 13/11/95 to 30/09/97 he served as Deputy Head of Office for North Africa and Countries in the Middle East at the Directorate General for Economic Affairs at MoFA. From 01/10/97 to 03/11/98 he was appointed as Deputy Head of the EU External Relations Office for Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East at the Directorate General for Economic Affairs at MoFA. From 04/11/98 to 31/07/02 he was appointed as Consul General of Italy to Guangzhou, China. From 01/08/02 to 13/07/05 he served as the First Counsellor for Migration and Social Affairs at the Permanent Representation of Italy to the European, Brussels. From 14/07/05 to 08/01/07 he was appointed as Head of the East Asia Office at the Directorate General for Countries of Asia, Oceania, the Pacific, and Antarctica at MoFA. From 09/01/07 to 31/05/09 he worked as Italy’s Coordinator in the Italy-China Governmental Committee at MoFA. From 2006 to 2010 he was a Member of the Executive Council of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Contemporary China in Turin, Italy. From 01/06/09 to 14/07/2011 he was appointed as Coordinator for the projects for the internationalization of Italian Universities and the activities of the Farnesina Design Collection at MoFA. From 15/7/2011 to 15/11/2015 he was appointed as Ambassador of Italy to Indonesia & East Timor and Permanent Representative to ASEAN. On 16/11/2015 he served as ASEM Senior Official at the Directorate General for Globalization, MoFAIC. In 2016 he was the Member of Uni-Italia’s Board of Directors as a Representative of MoFAIC. In 2017 he was the Coordinator for Energy Issues at the Directorate General for Globalization, MoFAIC. From 1/3/2019 until now he is the Ambassador of Italy to the Republic of Korea. Federico Failla is Plenipotentiary Minister since 2009 and received the honour of Commander of the Italian Republic. He speaks Italian (native), English, French and is married to Mrs. WONG Sin Wah, with 2 sons.