By Catherine Accardi

The Bay Area is pleased to welcome Lorenzo Ortona as the new San Francisco Consul General of Italy. Although headquartered in San Francisco, the Italian Consulate serves Northern and Central California, and a territory that extends from Hawaii to Alaska and Washington State.

Consul General Ortona graduated with a law degree from "La Sapienza University" of Rome, Italy. He joined the Italian Foreign Service in 2002 and his first assignment was at the OSCE Office and, later, Russia and the countries of the former USSR Desk of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano