Ferdinando Nelli Feroci
{{Short description|Italian diplomat}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Ferdinando Nelli Feroci
| image = Konferenzdiskussion_zur_%60ZUKUNFT_DER_EU%60_(28069257067)_(cropped).jpg
| caption = Nelli Feroci in 2018
| office = European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship
| term_start = 17 July 2014
| term_end = 31 October 2014
| president = José Manuel Barroso
| predecessor = Antonio Tajani
| successor = Elżbieta Bieńkowska
| office2 = Permanent Representative of Italy to the European Union
| term_start2 = 28 June 2008
| term_end2 = 2 July 2013
| predecessor2 = Rocco Cangelosi
| successor2 = Stefano Sannino
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|12|18|df=y}}
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = Independent
| alma_mater = University of Pisa
| profession = Diplomat, academic
}}
Ferdinando Nelli Feroci (born 18 December 1946) is an Italian diplomat who served briefly as a European Commissioner in 2014.
Biography
Nelli Feroci was born in Pisa. He graduated from the University of Pisa with a degree in law in 1970, and in 1972 entered the Italian diplomatic service.{{cite web|url=https://www.esteri.it/mae/resource/doc/2015/01/stati_servizio_cessati.pdf|title=Ministero degli Affari esteri, Stati di servizio del personale della Carriera diplomatica che ha cessato di far parte dell'Amministrazione dal 1 gennaio 2000 al 30 maggio 2014|language=IT|access-date=7 December 2021}}
He served with Italy's delegation to the United Nations in New York, and with its embassies in Algeria, the United States, France and China.
From 2004 to 2006, he was Director-general for European integration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from 2006 to 2008 he was chief of staff to Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema. Then from 2008 to 2013, he was the Permanent Representative of Italy to the European Union.
In June 2014 Nelli Feroci was appointed as Italy's European Commissioner, replacing Antonio Tajani as Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship in the second Barroso Commission. He took office in July, and held the post position he held until Commission's mandate expired on 1 November 2014.
He later became a professor at the School of Government of the Free International University of Social Studies "Guido Carli" (LUISS) in Rome, and President of the Istituto Affari Internazionali.
Honors
See also
References
{{reflist
|refs=
|url=https://www.iai.it/en/persone/ferdinando-nelli-feroci
|title=Ferdinando Nelli Feroci
|website=Istituto Affari Internazionali
|access-date=4 May 2020
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190915045055/https://www.iai.it/en/persone/ferdinando-nelli-feroci
|archive-date=15 September 2019
}}
|url=https://www.ansa.it/europa/notizie/rubriche/speciali_elezioni2014/2014/07/16/ferdinando-nelli-feroci-nuovo-commissario-ue-allindustria_d82d478f-8ef4-4430-aa23-40b63c34e6c7.html
|title=Ferdinando Nelli Feroci nuovo Commissario Ue all'industria
|website=Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata
|language=Italian
|date=22 July 2014
|access-date=4 May 2020
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220141433/https://www.ansa.it/europa/notizie/rubriche/speciali_elezioni2014/2014/07/16/ferdinando-nelli-feroci-nuovo-commissario-ue-allindustria_d82d478f-8ef4-4430-aa23-40b63c34e6c7.html
|archive-date=20 December 2016
}}
}}
{{Second Barroso Commission}}
{{European Commissioners from Italy}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nelli Feroci, Ferdinando}}
Category:University of Pisa alumni
Category:20th-century diplomats
Category:Permanent representatives of Italy to the European Union
Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Category:Italian European commissioners
Category:European commissioners (2009–2014)
Category:Academic staff of the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli