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Daniele Moro is a professional journalist since December 16, 1983, after many years as a publicist. He is also a worldwide recognized expert in the Middle East Affairs. He has been a fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations and the Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he was Editor in Chief of Tg5, a private TV broadcasting company in Italy, and a war reporter. He studied International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University.

Background
Daniele was born in Milan in 1951. After graduation in Politics from the State University of Milan, Daniele spent one year at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center, studying and reporting mainly on the Communist Countries (which he visited extensively from Enver Hodja’ s Albania to Kim il Sung’s North Korea). From there he was sent to the Jagiellonian University of Krakow for a further specialization in Communist countries. He began his writing for the School newspaper, to then start collaborating with "L'Avanti", "Il Mondo", "Il Sole-24 Ore" and "Mondo Economico". He worked for the Swiss Italian radio

Editor in Chief
Mr. Moro started is managerial career as director of Telelombardia (bought before the Ligresti) while Silvio Berlusconi was struggling with "Telemilano". He began working for TG5 since its origins and he was director of Gbr, the biggest TV in the Capital. At TG5 joined as deputy managing editor of Foreign Affairs, then became managing editor of the editions of the night (TG5 night, TG5 kiosk, Front Page). Since its creation, he worked also for the reportage channel "Terra". For "Terra" has wrote "disappear" (a reportage on on the change of identity) for which he won the Prix Saint Vincent.

During his time as journalist, Daniele has covered most of the conflict areas around the World from the field since the 1970s, firstly for the written press, then radio and TV, from Nicaragua to Northern Ireland, from Western Sahara to Cyprus, from the Middle East to the Horn of Africa, from Kosovo to Mozambique, ending, for the moment, with Afghanistan.

Erasmus Euromedia Award (2008)
Amnesie, TV Feature by Daniele Moro won the Sponsorship Award of the Erasmus Euromedia Award 2008 for his journalistic courageuous investigation on Italy’s after-war loss of memory. Has Daniele siad: "Europe is a result of the learning history of its people, especially after the two world wars and many local conflicts in the 2oth century. That’s why it is so important to know how and why historical facts happened, otherwise we would not learn from it. That means that, when ever there are temptations to falsify and to hoke or to forget and even to neglect the history, that comes out as a temptation to abscond from responsibility for present and future. Not to say the truth or to conceal the truth has to be taken as an attack to the credibility of the European project whose future depends from understanding its past."

The documentary describes how Italy’s war involvement at the Eastern front was full of inhuman activities and killing hostility, but yet there is no monument at all that tells about that: no trial, no history books, no local cemetery, no commemorative roll of honour for all that people that was dealt as undignified beings, killed or kept in concentration camps. For around 6o years the stories vanished, the history was concealed. State and army of Italy found an symbiotic agreement of silence and of concealment on what Italian army has done to ethnic Slavs not only in Slovenia but also in other parts of former Yugoslavia – and even bring to court journalists for “insulting the honour of the Italian army” as it happened to Daniele Moro for his documentary.

He was taken to the Court for “defamation of the Italian Army” but the Prosecutor decided to drop any accusation against him before going to formal trial.

Premio Saint Vincent (2001)
In 2000, Daniele changed his identity getting via the Internet a new passport, a driver’s licence and the membership card of the yacht club of Hong Kong (without even owning a yacht). This was just before 9/11 and showed the public how easy it was (and in part still is) to create a new false identity in a quite inexpensive way. For this story, he won the Saint Vincent Award in journalism the year after.

The Center for Transatlantic Relation
Mr. Moro has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Transatlantic Relations for the 2010-2011 academic year. During this time he has been working on

The US-Italy Global Forum
In 2012, Daniele Moro with is friends Eric Terzuolo and Ivan Butina, decided to start the US Italy Global Affairs Forum in Washington DC. Without any budget and just with friendly support from the Johns Hopkins university, NIAF and National Press Club, the Forum has offered the opportunity to US and European experts in international affairs to discuss issues generally not covered by the major institutions.

Extras
Daniele Moro publicly declare that "the most exciting thing of my work is to see the world changing in front of my eyes, without intermediaries; the most frustrating part is not being able to change it".