by Stefano Vaccara
NEW YORK (UNITED STATES) (ITALPRESS) – Once in January, the new Italian Consul General in New York, Giuseppe Pastorelli chose the Italian Exponents Group for one of his first public exits in front of the Italian business community in New York. Interviewed by GEI president Mario Platero, Pastorelli answered questions about career, country promotion strategies and relations with Italian-Americans, offering a personal and professional portrait of a diplomacy that focuses on collaboration and quality. Roman, class 1973, son of the famous professor of political sciences of Wisdom – known for the severity with which he formed generations of diplomatic aspirings – Pastorelli ironically told the relationship with a demanding father who testified it. “If you want to take this road you really need to study,” was the message, accompanied by precise deadlines on university exams.
To avoid having his father as a teacher he chose jurisprudence, but precisely that discipline, combined with rigorous family preparation, then led him towards diplomatic career. The first mission was in Ankara, “when Erdogan was in prison”, he recalled, evoking a career start in an already complex political context.
After experiences as a general console in Boston and Toronto, Pastorelli is now facing the New York challenge. “In New York it’s all bigger, it’s all faster, there’s so much Italy,” he explained in the video interview granted to Italpress at the edge of the meeting. The goal is to strengthen the Italian presence and make the country known “more and better” to the Americans, working together with the main institutions of the Italian system: Istituto Italiano di Cultura, ICE, Camera di Commercio, ENIT, Scuola d’Italia e Banca d’Italia.
The GEI insisted on a key concept: the quality of events counts more than quantity. To promote Italy in New York, on the economic and cultural level, will serve targeted, curated, networking initiatives. Decisive, he emphasized, will organize at least half of the events in collaboration with non-Italian institutions of the city, exploiting the great cultural platforms of New York and also participating in their programs, as in the case of great international exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum. The console also highlighted the strategic axis represented by Italian-Americans, distinguishing their history and identity from that of Canadian-Italians met in Toronto. Two communities with common roots but different paths, requiring different approaches in the promotion of Italy. On the institutional front, Pastorelli answered a question of Italpress on the relations with City Hall and the new mayor Mandani. “We will also propose initiatives related to Italian solidarity and our third sector, which can offer useful experiences for an increasingly inclusive city,” he explained.
The GEI insisted on a key concept: the quality of events counts more than quantity. To promote Italy in New York, on the economic and cultural level, will serve targeted, curated, networking initiatives. Decisive, he emphasized, will organize at least half of the events in collaboration with non-Italian institutions of the city, exploiting the great cultural platforms of New York and also participating in their programs, as in the case of great international exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum. The console also highlighted the strategic axis represented by Italian-Americans, distinguishing their history and identity from that of Canadian-Italians met in Toronto. Two communities with common roots but different paths, requiring different approaches in the promotion of Italy. On the institutional front, Pastorelli answered a question of Italpress on the relations with City Hall and the new mayor Mandani. “We will also propose initiatives related to Italian solidarity and our third sector, which can offer useful experiences for an increasingly inclusive city,” he explained.
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