Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo
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Former acting Secretary General of NATO.
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Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo is an Italian diplomat who was Deputy Secretary General of NATO from 2001 to 2007, and as acting Secretary General of NATO from 17 December 2003 to 1 January 2004, in between the tenures of George Robertson and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.[1]
Exceptionally for a Secretary General of NATO, Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo is not known to be a Bilderberg attendee.
Career
In the period 1997-2001, as diplomatic adviser to the Italian Defense Ministers Nino Andreatta and Carlo Scognamiglio, he played a leading role in the wars against Yugoslavia. In 2000 he was a founding member of the Committee for Politics and Security of the European Union, under the supervision of Javier Solana.
In 2011 he became president of the NATO Defense College Foundation.
From 2008 he was strategic councilor at electricity producer Enel.[2] From 2013 to 2016 he was a board member at the arms manufacturer Finmeccanica[3]
He is member of the Italy-USA Foundation.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Brussels Forum/2011 | 25 March 2011 | 27 March 2011 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. |
| Brussels Forum/2012 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. | ||
| Brussels Forum/2014 | 21 March 2014 | 24 March 2014 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The theme in 2014 was A World in Transition |
| Brussels Forum/2015 | 20 March 2015 | 22 March 2015 | Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Cleve | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The 2015 main theme was (R)evolution. |
