Staffan de Mistura
| Staffan de Mistura | |
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| United Nations and Arab League Envoy to Syria | |
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Assumed office July 2014 |
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| Secretary General |
Ban Ki-moon (UN) (2014–2016) António Guterres (UN) (since 2017) Nabil Elaraby (AL) (2014–2016) Ahmed Aboul Gheit (AL) (since 2016) |
| Preceded by | Lakhdar Brahimi |
| Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 27 March 2013 – 28 April 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Mario Monti |
| Minister | Mario Monti (acting) |
| Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 29 November 2011 – 27 March 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Mario Monti |
| Minister | Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 25, 1947 , Sweden |
| Nationality | Italian-Swedish |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
Staffan de Mistura (born 25 January 1947) is a long-serving Italian-Swedish diplomat and former member of the Italian government. After a 40-year career in various United Nations agencies, he was appointed Undersecretary of State (Junior Minister) for Foreign Affairs in the Italian cabinet headed by Mario Monti. He is currently the director of Villa San Michele on Capri and United Nations special envoy for the Syria crisis.
De Mistura's previous UN posts have included that of Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Iraq (2007–2009) and Afghanistan (2010–2011), Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for Southern Lebanon (2001–2004), and Director of the UN Information Center in Rome (2000–2001). His work has taken him to many of the world's most volatile trouble-spots including Afghanistan, Iraq, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and the former Yugoslavia.
De Mistura was born in 1947 in , Sweden, the son of a Swedish mother and an Italian father. His father belonged to a noble Italian family of Šibenik (Italian: Sebenico) in Croatia, which fled after World War II, together with most Dalmatian Italians, after Tito's Communists took over the country.
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