Pasquale Ferrara, who served as Political Director of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation from 2021 to 2025, is the Executive Chair of Reset DOC. He served as Italy’s Special Envoy for Libya and held long-term postings in Santiago de Chile, Athens, the European Union, and Washington. From 2016 to 2020, he was Italy’s Ambassador to Algiers. Between 2011 and 2016, Ferrara served as Secretary General of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. He currently teaches Diplomacy and Negotiation at LUISS Guido Carli and Active and Preventive Policies for Peace at the Sophia University Institute in Loppiano, Italy. His most recent book is Cercando un paese innocente. La pace possibile in un mondo in frantumi (“Searching for an Innocent Country. Possible Peace in a Shattered World”, 2023).