Massimo Khairallah is the Director of the International Relations for the Middle East and Africa.

He is a Senior Expert with more than 20 years’ experience in public and cultural diplomacy in the Arab world.

An Italian citizen and native Arabic speaker, after spending a considerable amount of time teaching at the Universities of Venice and Padua, thanks to which he consolidated a vast network of connections in the Middle East, he moved to Rome to work as Senior Adviser at the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates.