Aldo Gaspare Manos
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| Aldo Gaspare Manos | |
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| Born | April 3, 1933 Zagreb, Croatia |
| 💼 Occupation | Italian Diplomat, Environment consultant |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Elena Augusta Luxardo (m. 1960) |
| 👶 Children | 1 |
| 🌐 Website | www |
Aldo Manos (born 3 April 1933) is an Italian diplomat.
Early life and education[edit]
Aldo Manos was born in Zagreb, Croatia (then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) in an Italian family of Dalmatian descent. He completed his education in Italy at the Liceo Classico Domenico Cassini in San Remo and obtained a Law Degree at the University of Genoa with top honors [110/110 Lode] in 1955 with a thesis in the field of International Public Law.
He was active in student politics, entering twice the 40-member University Student representative body –VIII and IX Congresso Universitario Genovese - of which he was elected President in both years. He represented Genoa University at the Sixth Congress of the Italian University Representative Body, UNURI (Grado, 1955).
In 1969 he also obtained a Degree in Political Science from the same University, again with top honors [110/110 Lode], with a thesis on Regional cooperation in Asia.
Private sector experience[edit]
In 1956 joined the Piaggio Company in Genoa as Assistant to the Director-General, became Deputy Director of the Advertising Department, and Director of two in-house magazines.
In 1961 moved to Milan as Head of Advertising and P.R. of Ingersoll-Rand Italia.
United Nations career[edit]
In 1962 joined the United Nations Secretariat in New York as an Associate Professional Officer P-2 in the Division of Public Administration, where he was responsible for the OPEX Program. Promoted to P-3 he took over as desk officer for Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam in the Bureau of Technical Assistance Operations(BTAO).
While in New York, passed the UN Language Proficiency examinations in English, French, and Russian.
On 4 October 1965, a small number of Italian Secretariat staff were presented to H.H. Pope Paul VI, at His request.
In 1967 became Chief of the Technical Assistance Co-ordination Unit at the UN Regional Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) in Bangkok where he supervised a team of regional consultants and several regional projects, among them the Asian Highway, the distant precursor of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative.[1][2] In Bangkok, he was promoted to the Senior Officer level (P-5).
In 1972 chosen by Maurice Strong for his team to run the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE) in Stockholm, where he was a liaison officer with the Western European and Others Group (WEOG).
In 1973 transferred to the newly created United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in Nairobi as Chief of the Program Management Division, later Deputy Director (D-1) of the Environment Fund.
In 1977 represented UNEP at the World Peace Council meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria.
On 7 May 1980 was presented to H.H. Pope John Paul II during His first Pastoral Visit to Kenya, by the Apostolic Nuncio.
In 1980 became UNEP Acting Director for Europe in Geneva, and in 1982 was appointed first Co-ordinator (D-2) of the Mediterranean Action Plan in Athens.[3] During his tenure, the secretariat of the 1976 Barcelona Convention for the protection of the Mediterranean Sea against pollution grew from a few staff members to encompass four regional specialized offices in Malta, Split, Tunisia, and Sophia Antipolis (France), with a staff of fifty, entirely financed by the twenty-one Mediterranean coastal States.
In 1990 represented UNEP at the first Conference on Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas – EMECS 90 at Kobe, Japan.
In 1991 took early retirement after a 29-year career.
Post U.N. career[edit]
Appointed Professor of Ecology and Environmental Diplomacy at the School of International and Diplomatic Sciences, University of Trieste, Gorizia campus for the maximum three-years period (1994–1997).
He served repeatedly as a consultant to the UN – UNEP; to the Government of Italy as a Member of the Consulta del Mare of the Ministry of the Merchant Marine; Member of Delegation to several UNEP Governing Councils; Member of Delegation to the Earth Summit Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992); Member of Delegation to the World Conference on Small Island Developing Nations (New York, 1999).
In 1993 he was the Italian official candidate for the post of Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA) to the EU, notably as the environment expert on its proposed Mediation in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process (Brussels, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Tokyo, 1992).
Since 2015 he has conducted research on the history of the Italian Prisoners of War in Kenya (1941–1947), publishing two books on the subject.
Publications[edit]
- Manos, Aldo. G. and Sibanda, B. (1999). In-depth Evaluation of the Regional Activity Centre for Priority Actions Programme (PAP/RAC), Nairobi, UNEP, Evaluation and Oversight Unit[4]
- Manos, Aldo. Evaluation and Oversight Unit (1999): Management Study on Trust Funds and Counterpart Contributions; UNEP, Nairobi[5]
- Manos, Aldo. Campo 360 Ndarugu (1919): Licosia Publisher, Italy[6]
- Manos, Aldo. Early Italian Contributions to the building of modern Kenya, (2020), Comites, Nairobi[7]
Languages[edit]
In addition to his native Italian, Aldo Manos speaks English and French fluently with a working command of Spanish, Croatian and Russian.
Clubs/associations[edit]
Member, Muthaiga Country Club, Nairobi since 1976 Member, Rotary Club Nairobi North (1976 to 1980) Member, Confratello della Scuola Dalmata dei SS. Giorgio e Trifone, one of Venice’s oldest fraternities, was established in 1451, since 1991.
Honours[edit]
Knight of the Order of Merit[8] (27 December 1969) Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy (9 December 2020) Recipient of the “Uomo del Mare” (Man of the Sea) award of the Italian Naval League – Agrigento Porto Empedocle (1983)
Invited participant[edit]
- Enrico Peccei Foundation: Erice, Italy, October 1988
- Agnelli Foundation: Naples, March 1988
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): Paris, February 1989
- ASPEN Institute Italia: Cairo, November 1988; Castelfusano, Italy, June 1989; Rome, May 1992; Rome, November 1994
- International Geographical Union (IGU): Beijing, August 1990
- Commission on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE): Palma de Mallorca, September 1990
- Pacem in Maribus Conference: Lisbon, November 1991
- UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Wilton Park, October 1991
- United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR): Geneva, September 1993
- Invited as a special guest of the Secretary-General of the Stockholm+50 International Meeting, Stockholm, 2–3 June 2022.[9]
Invited speaker[edit]
- Le Grand Orient de France: Nice, April 1986
- Lions Club: Catania, Italy June 1988
- Soroptimist International: Genoa, September 1991; Vicenza, Italy, March 1992
- United World College: Duino, Italy, January 1992
- Circolo dell’Unione: Venice, 2019
- Italian POWs in Kenya at Parma, Padova, Trieste and Brescia, Italy, 2020
References[edit]
- ↑ "Down memory lane: Italian prisoners of war in Kenyan camps". thailandbangkok.asia.
- ↑ Who's Who in the United Nations and Related Agencies 1975. Arno Press Inc. 1 December 1975. p. 785. ISBN 040506490X. Search this book on
- ↑ "The Evolution of Environmental Policies in the Mediterranean" (PDF). mio-ecsde.org.
- ↑ "In-depth Evaluation of the Regional Activity Centre for Priority Actions Programme (PAP/RAC)". paprac.org.
- ↑ "MANAGEMENT STUDY OF UNEP TRUST FUNDS AND COUNTERPART CONTRIBUTIONS". UN Environment Evaluation Office. UN Environment Evaluation Office.
- ↑ Campo 360 Ndarugu: ai prigionieri italiani in Kenya. Licosia. ISBN 8899796718. Search this book on
- ↑ "Early Italian Contributions to the building of modern Kenya" (PDF). prigionieriinkenia.org.
- ↑ "Gazzetta Ufficiale". www.gazzettaufficiale.it.
- ↑ "Intergenerational Conversations: Aldo Manos + Emmanuela Shinta". YouTube.
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