Andrea Ferrero

Andrea Ferrero (18 Novembre 1903 – 10 June 1996) was an Italian diplomat. After graduating in law in Turin, he joined Italy's foreign service, working as a diplomat in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, New York City, Moscow, and Athens. After World War II he became Second Secretary in London. In this capacity, he helped with the repatriation of Italian prisoners of war.

Ferrero then served as Counsellor in Cairo from 1950 to 1954, during the critical times of the Egyptian Revolution. In that period, the Italian ambassador to Egypt passed away and Italy, following the dictates of the British, didn't appoint a new ambassador, in order to avoid to specify whether the new representative would be accredited to King Farouk as King of Egypt or King of Egypt ''and Sudan''. Thus Ferrero became the ''chargé d'affaires'', providing reports about the conflict in this capacity.

In the mid 1950s he served as Consul General in Geneva and Italian Delegate to the United Nations in the same city. Ferrero then served as Italian Ambassador to Uruguay, Italian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, and finally as Italian Ambassador to Thailand. After his retirement he settled in Rome, where he died on 10 June 1996. Provided by Wikipedia