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 considered one of the few people in the microstate who might qualify for the designation “public intellectual.”

Appointed at age 25 in 2008, Chiaruzzi has served as first 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, popularly rebranded New Chapel, the first ever monument devoted to interfaith dialogue.