Barbara Faedda is an Italian legal anthropologist, academic administrator, and diplomat who has served as the Ambassador and Permanent Observer of the European Public Law Organisation (EPLO) to the United Nations since 2019.
She serves as the executive director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America and as an adjunct professor of Italian at Columbia University.
Career Faedda studied at the Sapienza University of Rome. She later earned a doctorate in legal anthropology and social science from the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples.
She joined Columbia University in 2006, serving as the assistant director and later the associate director of the Italian Academy from 2007 to 2013.
In her capacity as an adjunct professor in Columbia's Department of Italian, she conceived the academy's International Observatory for Cultural Heritage in 2016.
On 21 May 2019, Faedda was appointed by the European Public Law Organisation as its inaugural Permanent Observer to the United Nations Headquarters, with the rank of Ambassador.
She was named by Sapienza University as its Illustrious Alumna for 2020. In 2022, she was appointed as a Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by the President of Italy.
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