(Adnkronos) – The Farnesina announces that Sabrina Ugolini today assumed the post of Italian Ambassador to Kabul, with headquarters temporarily located in Doha. Born in Rome in 1968, she graduated with honors in Political Science, international address, from the ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome in 1992. Following a competitive examination, on March 30, 1994 she was appointed Volunteer in the diplomatic career, with commercial specialization.
She began her professional career at the Ministry at the Directorate General for Economic Affairs, dealing with bilateral relations with African countries. Her first assignment abroad was in Tunis, from 1998, as Head of the Consular Chancery, with responsibility for the migration and social sector and assistance to compatriots. Subsequently, from 2002 to 2006, she was Economic and Commercial Counselor at the Embassy in Brussels, where she worked to promote the Italian System in Belgium, coordinating the implementation of cultural activities during the semester of the Italian Presidency of the EU Council in 2003. In 2006 she returned to Rome and took over the leadership of the Social Affairs Office at the Directorate General for Personnel, a position in which she is committed to organizational well-being in the workplace through renewed social services, agreements and health prevention projects.
From 2009 to 2012 she returned to Brussels, as Deputy Head of Mission and Political Counselor at the bilateral Embassy, with responsibility for coordinating and reorganizing the Italian consular network in Belgium. At the Ministry, since 2012, she has been Head of the Statistics Office at the General Secretariat and representative of the Farnesina in the National Statistical System, in which context she works to strengthen the Ministry’s public communication initiatives through data, enhancing the role of gender statistics in dissemination.
For a four-year term, from 2013 to 2017, she was also President of the Ministry’s Single Guarantee Committee, dealing with equal opportunities, combating discrimination and work-life balance. In this role, she also assumed responsibility for the Listening Center against mobbing, harassment and discrimination and, at the same time, represented the Farnesina on the National Equality Committee at the Ministry of Labor.
Since 2016 she has held the position of Deputy Director General and Central Director for Administration, IT, Communications and Organizational Well-being, with responsibility for managing the Ministry’s information systems and cybersecurity and coordinating social service policies for the staff. Since 2023 she has been at the Directorate General for Political Affairs and Security and, on February 20, 2024, she was appointed President of the Interministerial Committee for Human Rights (CIDU), a position that puts her in constant interaction with the Italian institutions operating in the field of human rights , with civil society and with the academic world. In this capacity, she is also the Italian National Liaison Officer at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in Vienna and the Italian Representative on the new Committee on Democracy at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. As President of the CIDU, she takes care, in particular, of the process of drawing up the new Women, Peace and Security Action Plan and coordinates the national response obligations to the bodies of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
In 2017 she was appointed Knight Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. On 25 October 2024 she assumed the functions of Italian Ambassador to Afghanistan, with headquarters temporarily located in Doha.
