Prof. Amedeo Pignatelli

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Work Information

Professional experience

Cultural Attaché, Italian Embassy, New Delhi, India (1997-1998)

Director, Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA (1994 - 1996)

Cultural Attaché, Italian Embassy, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1991-1994)

Position of cultural attache and director of an Italian Cultural Institute involves planning of cultural events, educational programs, intercultural exchanges, public relations at managerial and diplomatic level, responsibility of government funds, administration and management of a cultural center.

Lecturer of Italian Language at the following Universities:

Universiti Malaya - Language Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1991-1993)

National Somali University, Mogadishu, Somalia (1982-1984)

Teachers' trainer in Computer Aided Instruction and Language Teaching Methodology (1987-1991)

Teacher of English language and literature, in state secondary schools, Italy, (1972-1991)

In my position as Cultural Attaché, (1991-1998) I have created and/or coordinated several projects.

Some of the them are outlined below.

In the South-East Asia region:

• The "An Evening of Italian Comedy" Asian tour, 1993, which introduced our Commedia dell'Arte in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand;

• The "Young Italian Artists" exhibition, 1994, also shown in Bangkok and Jakarta, presenting 49 Italian artists;

In San Francisco:

• Coordination of the project "A Bell Tower for Nicholas Green". A monument, installed in Bodega Bay, CA, made of more than 100 bells donated by Italians in remembrance of the American child Nicholas Green who was murdered by road bandits while vacationing in Italy with his family.

• Development of the cultural centre WEB site and software for the management of the Centre.

In India:

• Coordination of the Italian Cultural Center activities for the one year project "Italy's Homage to India" (on the occasion of the 50^th anniversary of India's independence). The project included several cultural events of international standing and ended in January 1998 with the official visit to India of Italian P.M. Hon. Romano Prodi.

• Creation of a Windows NT LAN and a computerized "Information on Italy" Service in the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre of New Delhi.

• Development of accountancy software for Italian Cultural Centres.

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Biographical Information

Born

19 July 1947, Rome, Italy

Residence

Currently living in the Province of Khon Kaen, North-East of Thailand

Current position

Retired, from 1 September 1998

Co-founder and manager of  Sao Mai Education Fund, HCM City, Vietnam.

Education

Doctor Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures, 1971, University of Rome, Italy

Certified Teacher of English Language and Literature, Italian Ministry of Education, 1977

Foreign Languages Special Project, (Three-year Post-graduate Specialization Course in Language Teaching Methodology),   Italian Ministry of Education, 1986-1988

Professional skills

Authoring of language teaching material

Training of language teachers

Expert in CAI (Computer Assisted Instruction), CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) and Audio-Visual Teaching Aids

Expert in computer accessibility for blind users

Expert in design, set up, and administration of educational computer networks

Management of Cultural Centres

Languages

Native Italian speaker; Fluent spoken and written English; Elementary Spoken Thai.

Intermediate spoken and written French; Elementary Spanish;

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15 June 2010