Education

University Federico II of Naples, Degree in Physics - Department of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences. Vote 110/110 cum laude

National Functions

• Undersecretary of State for Justice in the first Gentiloni Silveri Government from December 29, 2016 to June 1, 2018.
• Undersecretary of State for Justice in the first Renzi Government from January 28, 2016 to December 12, 2016.
• Member of the Italian Parliament from 2006 to 2008 and from 2013 to date (currently in the Parliamentary Group Italia Viva).
• Chair of the Parliamentary Group Communist Refoundation Party-European Left from 2006 to 2008.
• Chair of the Parliamentary Group Left Ecology and Freedom from 2013 to 2014.
• Chair of the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into reception and identification systems and on detention conditions of migrants and asylum seekers in reception centres, and in centres of identification and expulsion from 2015 to 2016.
• Member of the Standing Committee on Justice from 2006 to 2008.
• Member of the Parliamentary Committee on External Communication from 2013 to 2014.
• Member of the Standing Committee on Defence from 2014 to 2015.
• Member of the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Interior Affairs from 2013 to 2014 and from 2015 to 2019.
• Member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2019 to date.
• Member of the Parliamentary Committee for the General Orientation and Oversight of Radio and Television services from 2006 to 2008 and from 2013 to 2018.
• Member of the Parliamentary Committee for drafting principles and guidelines on guarantees, rights and duties for the use of the Internet from 2013 to 2018.
• Member of the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into Mafia-related and other criminal organisations, including foreign organisations since 2020 to date.
• Municipal Councillor in the City Council of Naples (elected for the first time in 1997 and re-elected in 2001).

Functions in International Organizations

• Chair of the Parliamentary Committee for Italian-Venezuelan cooperation from 2006 to 2008.
• Chair of the Italian side of the IPU Friendship Group Italy-Morocco from 2018 to date.
• Chair of the Special Parliamentary Committee on Countering Terrorism of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) from 2019 to date.
• Vice-Chair of the Italian Delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union from 2006 to 2008 and from 2013 to 2018.
• Member of the High Level Advisory Group (HLAG) on Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) from 2019 to date.

Participation in International Conferences

Conferences organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM)

• 13th Plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean
• PAM Conference on Countering International Terrorism
• PAM Conference on: The nexus between population movements and security
• PAM Meeting on Counterterrorism
• OSCE-wide Counter Terrorism Conference
• OSCE-wide Seminar on Passenger Data Exchange.

Conferences organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU):

• Parliamentary Conference on migrations
• Parliamentary engagement in addressing terrorism and conditions conducive to terrorism in the Sahel region
• The role of parliamentarians in preventing and countering terrorism and addressing conditions conducive to terrorism in the Asia-Pacific region

Conferences organised by other entities:

• The effect of Islamism on migrants and Muslims in Belgium and Europe, The European Assembly Against Extremism & Terrorism
• Mediterranean in the future. One belt, one road, Fondazione del Mediterraneo, Museo della Pace Napoli
• Interactive Discussion III: Global programs on Countering Terrorist Travel, Returning Foreign Terrorists, UNOCT
• OSCE PA-PAM-UNOCT Parliamentary Web Dialogue: Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic, OSCE PA-PAM-UNOCT
• Interactive Discussion III: Global programmes on Countering Terrorist Travel, Returning Foreign Terrorists, UNOCT
• 21st Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention and its Protocols, UNEP/MAP
• The Mediterranean Sea and China after 2020: which way ahead, CeSI - Centro Studi Internazionali

Personal Skills 

Languages:

• Italian: mother tongue
• English: fluent
• Spanish: fluent