Michele Chiaruzzi



Michele Chiaruzzi (born September 12, 1983, in San Marino) is a Sammarinese academic and diplomat, since 2008 ambassador of San Marino to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Biography
Chiaruzzi holds a Ph.D. in history from the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici di San Marino. He has researched the British scholar Martin Wight, publishing in 2016 the book Martin Wight on Fortune and Irony in Politics.

A Clare Hall, Cambridge life member, and professor at the University of Bologna, he is the founding director of the Research Centre for International Relations at the University of San Marino.

Appointed at age 25 in 2008, Chiaruzzi has served as first (resident, and later non-resident) ambassador of San Marino to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

His unusual diplomatic figure has attracted international media attention, also featuring in Goran Milic's documentary for Al Jazeera "Alkemija Balkana".

In July 2010, on his initiative, the municipality of Chiesanuova in San Marino placed a plaque in memory of the Srebrenica genocide, one of the first monuments in Europe dedicated to it.

In 2019 Chiaruzzi created the sculpture Dialogue, the first ever monument devoted to interfaith dialogue.