Draft:Carlo Paolicelli

Carlo Paolicelli (born April 5, 1975, as Carlo, Francesco, Pio, in Cerignola) is a Italian and Polish lawyer, Polish local government official, chief expert in international economic exchange, publicist and writer. He is the President of the Dante Alighieri Society Committee in Warsaw.

Jurist practice
Carlo Paolicelli graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Aldo Moro University in Bari, earning a doctorate in law based on a thesis in the field of regional law and local government, under the supervision of Professor Guido Meale, the honorary chairman of the Council of State. He completed his legal internship at the Bar Association of the District Court in Foggia. His professional career began in Rome where he was first a councilor and then director of the immigration department of an independent Italian trade union.

In Poland, he practiced law for 15 years in Western Pomerania. He is registered as a court mediator at the District Court in Szczecin, specializing in mediations in administrative and international proceedings. From 2011 to 2018 he was continuously elected head of the rural municipality of Bolewice in Western Pomerania, dedicating his social activities to defending the rights of village residents and revitalizing rural areas. From 2014 to 2018, he was a councilor of the City Council in Pełczyce. From 2019 to 2020, he was the Deputy Mayor of municipality of Nowogródek Pomorski, where he also served as the Commander of the Municipal Fire and Flood Protection. He is currently a councilor of the Warsaw Old Town Neighborhood Council. From November 2020 to June 2021, he served as the Deputy Commander General of the Polish Job Corps in Warsaw, resuming dialogue with social partners and trade unions to implement the long-awaited state labor service reform. Since February 2022, he has been serving as an chief expert in international economic exchange for the Platform of the Industry of the Future, and is a co-founding member of the Technical Body for Artificial Intelligence of the Polish Committee for Standardization.

Cultural activities
Carlo Paolicelli is committed to promoting the Italian language and culture in Poland. He cooperated with the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the Polonia Italia Association in Poznań. During the UEFA EURO 2012™ European Football Championship, he co-authored the institutional communication of Poznań as the Host City. From 2014 to 2016, he was the editor-in-chief of the "Trybuna Zachodnia" newspaper. Since November 2021, he has been elected as the chairman of the board of the Dante Alighieri Society Committee in Warsaw, whose goal is to promote Italian language and culture worldwide, full member of the Warsaw Cluster of the EU National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC).

Private life
Carlo is the son of Salvatore Paolicelli (born in 1948, in Cerignola), former director of the Banco di Napoli, Knight of Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and Knight of Grand Crosses of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem and of Professor Teresa Tiano, who has many merits in the study of the southern Italian question. Since 2003 he has been married in a religious ceremony to Katarzyna (Katerina) Ostaszewska, former Italian politician linked to the Labor current in the Democrats of the Left. They have a son and a daughter.

Decorations
With rescript no. 238 of 27 September 2004, His Beatitude Teoctist the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church was awarded the Patriarchal Cross of Romania, the highest religious honor of the Romanian Orthodox Church, granted exceptionally to very few lay people since 1925, for the merits in the sector of legal aid granted pro bono to the Romanian diaspora in Italy. The investiture ceremony in the Tre Fontane Abbey in Rome was presided over by the patriarchal legate Archbishop Daniel, current Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

Publications
- Through the Cross to the Light: The Rites of Holy Week in Cerignola / Angelo Disanto, Carlo Paolicelli; in collaboration with the Municipal Administration of Cerignola - OPAC - National Library of Florence. (Monograph in the Italian language). - A Stopover in Jerusalem: Origins and Evolution of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem in the Delegation and Headquarters in Cerignola / Salvatore Paolicelli, Carlo Paolicelli, Ed. Nuova Mezzina, Molfetta. (Monograph in the Italian language.); - Toward the Digital Decade by 2030. (Original article in the Polish language). - The Significance of Standardization in Industry 4.0: A Polish Perspective. (Original article in the Polish language). 22 november, 2022. - Di Vittorio, a Timeless Example for Today's Youth, in the Biography by Gianni Rodari. (Bilingual original article in Italian and Polish.) - Beyond Self-Referentialism: Promoting Genuine Dissemination of Italian Culture Abroad. - The Long Shadow of the 20th Century. (Original article in the Polish language).