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Sergio Vento is a senior advisor in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery Studio Legale Associato, based in its Rome office. He is the former Italian Ambassador to the United States, and his two previous appointments were as Italy's Ambassador to the United Nations (2000 - 2003) and to France (1995 - 1999).
Sergio Vento has had a distinguished career as a key member of Italy's Senior Foreign Service. Other high flying roles he has held include being Diplomatic Advisor to four Prime Ministers of Italy (Amato, Ciampi, Berlusconi and Dini) from 1992 to 1995, serving also as Italy's Representative to the Halifax (1995) and Lyon (1996) Summits of the G7. Appointed Chief of Mission to Yugoslavia with the rank of Ambassador (1989-1992), he was confirmed in the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in 1991.
Sergio began his career in the diplomatic service in 1963 at the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, where he served for four years. He was posted to The Hague in 1967 and remained there until 1970, initially in the rank of Second Secretary and later that of First Secretary. From 1970 to 1972, he was Consul in Buenos Aires and from 1972 to 1975, Counselor in Ankara. In 1975, he returned to Rome to head the Bureau for the Near East and North Africa in the Ministry's Political Directorate. From 1979 to 1984, he was Deputy Permanent Representative to the European Organisation for Cooperation and Development (EOCD) in Paris. He served as Head of the Bureau for Multilateral Economic Institutions in the Economic Directorate from 1985 until 1987 when he was appointed Diplomatic Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. In 1988 he entered the senior foreign service in the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary I.
Education
University of Rome
Languages Spoken
English
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