Roberto Natali

Roberto Natali is currently Italian Ambassador to Kenya. Between 2013 and 2017 he was the Italian Ambassador to Morocco, and he has been the Italian accredited Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania since 2014. Natali was born in L’ Aquila, on 7 December 1958. Graduated in International Political Science and later in Philosophy, he began his diplomatic career in 1986. In 1989 he was appointed First Secretary of Commerce and Vicar of the Head of Mission in Quito (Ecuador). In 1993 he was in Helsinki (Finland), where he served as Councillor and Vicar of the Head of Mission and closely followed the process of Finland’s accession to the European Union. At the end of 1996 he returned to the Ministry in Rome and worked at the Press and Information Service. In 2001 he went to Washington: as Prime Counsellor for Press and Information, he oversaw the relations with the media in the delicate years following the attacks in New York and Washington and during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; in this position he was also responsible of the promotion of Italian culture in the United States. In September 2005 he was appointed Consul General in Barcelona. He returned to the Ministry in 2009, where he became Head of the Personal Secretariat of the Undersecretary of State, Vincenzo Scotti. Appointed Plenipotentiary Minister in January 2010, he held the position of Head of the Secretariat of Deputy Ministers Staffan de Mistura and Lapo Pistelli until he was appointed Ambassador to Rabat.