Giampiero Mele

Born in Rome in 1958, after classical studies he took a degree in Political Science at Rome University. In 1982 he earned a Masters degree in Mass Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles with an international ITT scholarship. Worked at ICET, a telecommunications company where he became CEO and spread their activity to Finland, Ukraine, Latvia and Russia. He has published several books and in 2003 founded the Italy-Latvia association. The Italian edition of Calabria: Warrior and Rebel won three literary awards, and received letters of encouragement from the president of Italy and the queen of Belgium, who is of Calabrian origin.