Giulietto Chiesa

Giulietto Chiesa
Giulietto Chiesa, 2005
Born	(1940-09-04) 4 September 1940 (age 76) Acqui Terme, Province of Alessandria, Italy
Occupation	Journalist, Politician
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Giulietto Chiesa (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈljetto ˈkjɛza]; (born September 1940) is an Italian journalist, author, lecturer and politician.

He has been Vice-President of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade and member of two Extraordinary Committees inside the European Parliament: the Extraordinary Renditions Committee and the Climate Change Committee. He has been the founder of the cultural association Megachip. Democracy in Communications .He is the Chief Editor of the web TV Pandora TV.

Giulietto Chiesa was born in Acqui Terme (Italy) on the 4th of September 1940. He was enrolled at the University of Genoa as a physics student, but he did not finish his studies. In 1989-1990 he was Fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington.

Chiesa has a long experience as a political activist. He started in Genoa as a local branch leader of a student organisation, called Unione Goliardica Italiana (Italian Goliardic Union – UGI) and then as its national Vice-President. Later on he became national leader of FGCI (Italian Communist Youth Federation) and eventually leader of the Genoese branch of PCI (Italian Communist Party) between 1970 and 1979. He has been chairman of the PCI in the County Council of Genoa between 1975 and 1979 the year in which he left his career as a party official in order to be a journalist.

He started as a journalist in 1979, first as an editor for the Italian newspaper L’Unità and then serving as a Moscow correspondent for the same newspaper from 1980. He has given lectures in fifteen universities and research institutes in the USA, at the State Department, at the Rand Corporation, etc. In 1991 he was again appointed Moscow correspondent for La Stampa – an Italian newspaper based in Turin - and as such he has remained in Russia until the end of 2000. While in Moscow he collaborated with Radio Liberty. He has worked also as a political editorialist and commentator for the newspaper of Turin and he carried on writing for it until 2005, even though less and less frequently over time. In the same period he was writing also for Il Manifesto and other Italian newspapers and magazines. He did several columns for many different newspapers and journals, among them La Voce delle voci and Missioni della consolata. He collaborated also with several European, American and Russian newspapers and journals. During the ‘90s he collaborated with most of the Italian TV broadcasters, with International Swiss Radio, with Radio Vaticana, with the Russian channel of BBC-World Service, with the Russian TV channels ORT, RTR and NTV and with Deutsche Welle. He has been invited a number of times to RAI News 24 and RAI programmes. In the last few years he has been repeatedly invited to Omnibus, a TV program on the Italian TV channel La Sette. He wrote a regular column for Photo and for four years wrote a regular column for the European monthly magazine Galatea