Massimo Carnelos is since December 2022 Head of Technological Innovation and Startups at the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Between 2018 and the end of 2022, he was the Head of the Economic Section of the Italian Embassy in London and was in the Board of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He was the Honorary Vice President of the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the United Kingdom, member of the Advisory Board of the Italians’ Private Capital Association (IPCA). Massimo has a M.A. from the University of Rome La Sapienza and in the past worked for International Organizations (ad Research Assistant at the Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE and at the Press Office of the Council of the Ministers of the EU). He worked also at the Council of the Ministers of Italy and in 2001 joined the Italian Foreign Service. As a career diplomat, he served first at the Middle East Desk and then at the Office for International S&T Cooperation. He was stationed at the Italian Embassy in New Zealand, Cyprus and Iraq, always as Deputy Head of Mission. Back to Rome in December 2013, he worked for more than four years at the Policy Planning Unit of the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, where he was responsible for the Research and Publication Section.