Giovanni Sacchi

Graduated in Political Science, international address at Cesare Alfieri University in Florence, with a diploma as a conference interpreter for English and French and a Master in International Commerce and Finance organized by the Italian Trade Agency (ITA) of Milan, I started my career at the ITA 34 years ago in 1992. After a four-year activity in Rome where I dealt with the promotion of Italian instrumental mechanics, I carried out my first assignment abroad in Hong Kong from 1996 to 2000 as deputy director, where I was able to attend the historic Hong Kong Handover to China in July 1997. Returning to Italy, following the victory of the competition for executives in August 2000, I was appointed director of the ITA Office in Florence and since 2002 manager of the Consumer Goods Area and of the Special Projects Area of the Rome office. In 2004 I was appointed director of ITA Sofia in Bulgaria and subsequently from 2007 to 2013 I was director of the ITA office in Sao Paulo, responsible f