Giancarlo Bosetti has stepped down as Executive Chair of Reset Dialogues on Civilizations, the international non-profit organization he co-founded twenty years ago with Nina zu Fürstenberg. Ambassador Pasquale Ferrara has been appointed to succeed him at the helm of the organization, which grew out of the legacy of the Italian magazine Reset.
Ferrara, who served as Political Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation from 2021 to 2025, brings to the presidency of Reset a distinguished institutional and academic profile. Over the course of his career, 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).
The Board of Governors—Marina Calloni, Piergaetano Marchetti, Francesco Micheli, Markus Reinhard, and Alberto Saravalle—approved both the resignation and the appointment, together with Giancarlo Bosetti and Pasquale Ferrara. Bosetti will remain involved in the organization in the role of Vice Chair.
Both the Executive Chair and Vice Chair underline that this “marks a handover that combines continuity with openness to new horizons. Reset DOC’s mission continues to be the promotion of pluralism, mutual recognition, and dialogue among cultures and religions, within a wider commitment to inclusive liberal democracy and to the protection of human rights and the dignity of individuals and peoples—an endeavor made even more urgent today than twenty years ago by a world marked by wars, polarization, and autocratic tendencies.”
Cover photo: A portrait of Ambassador Pasquale Ferrara.
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