Dr Pietro De Matteis is Programme Officer at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). He is responsible for engagement with the Indo-Pacific and Latin America, focusing on Public Diplomacy to promote understanding of the Alliance’s objectives: ensuring peace, stability, and respect for the rule of law. To do so he collaborates with think tanks, academia, NGOs, and stakeholders globally.
He previously spent over 14 years working for the European Union, primarily at the European Commission and the European External Action Service (the EU’s diplomatic corps), serving in various roles: Public Diplomacy advisor, Deputy Commissioner General for the EU at EXPO2020 Dubai, Public Diplomacy attaché at the EU Delegation to Canada, and Programme Manager for EU-funded initiatives with the United Nations in New York, in Asia and North America.
Pietro also served as an elected City Councillor in Brussels (Saint-Gilles) and has led several citizen engagement organisations at local and European level.
Pietro holds a PhD in International Studies from the University of Cambridge, with a focus on EU and China Energy and Climate Change Diplomacy. An economist by training, he graduated summa cum laude from the University of Milan-Bicocca after an Erasmus year at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has been a visiting scholar at both Columbia University in New York and Renmin University in Beijing.
He speaks in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Chinese.
