Luigi Di Maio has been the European Union Special Representative for the Gulf region since June 2023. He previously served as Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2022 and as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development, Labour, and Social Policies from 2018 to 2019. In 2013, he was Vice President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.  

Throughout the years he chaired many international high level meetings, including three consecutive editions of the MED Dialogue conference, G20 foreign and trade ministerial meetings, the 2021 Ministerial Meeting of the International Anti-Daesh Coalition, or the first ever Mediterranean Ministerial Dialogue on the Food Security Crisis in June 2022.