CV KESSLER Giovanni

Giovanni KESSLER
Nationality: Italian
Academic qualifications:
Professional experience in
the European Institutions:
Professional experience
before joining the
European Institutions:
1975 – 1980: Master's degree in Law with honours (March 1982) Università
degli Studi di Bologna, Italia
From February 2011 to date: Director-General European Anti-Fraud Office
(OLAF)
October 2009 – January 2011: President of the Conference of European
Regional Legislative Assemblies (CALRE)
November 2008 – January 2011: President of the legislative Assembly of
the Autonomous Province of Trento (Consiglio della Provincia Autonoma di
Trento, Italia)
September 2006 – August 2008: Italian High Commissioner to combat
counterfeiting (Alto Commissario per la lotta alla contrafazione, Roma, Italia)
September 2001 – July 2006: Member and Vice-President of the OSCE
Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Copenhagen,
Denmark)
April 2001 – April 2006: Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies (Camera
dei Deputati, Roma, Italia)
December 2000 – April 2001 and January 1997-December 1998: Public
Prosecutor (Procura della Repubblica di Bolzano, Italia)
August 1999 – December 2000: Judicial Advisor (Italian Ministry for Foreign
Affairs, Roma, Italia)
December 1998 – July 1999: Deputy Head of OSCE Kosovo Verification
Mission, based in Pristina, Head of police and Justice Department
(Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Kärntner Ring, Vienna,
Austria).
March 1995 – December 1996: Anti-Mafia public prosecutor (Direzione
Distrettuale Antimafia, Caltanissetta, Sicilia, Italia)
June 1985 – February 1995: Public prosecutor (Procura della Repubblica,
Trento, Italia)
June 1984 – June 1985: Auditor (Corte dei Conti, Trento, Italia)
April 1982 – March 1984: Junior Barrister (Larentis Law Firm, Trento, Italia)
Other professional
activities:
March 1980 – December 1981: Manager of the Earthquake Disasters Relief
branch of Caritas Italiana, Roma, Italia)
Member of the Board of Directors of the Global Organization of
Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) 2002
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Observatory on Balkans
(Osservatorio dei Balcani), Rovereto, Italy (2000 – 2009)
Language Skills:
Italian (mother tongue)
English
German
French