Journalist Claudio Pagliara, correspondent-chief of Rai's New York bureau for radio and television news reporting from the United States and North America, the new director of the Italian Cultural Institute on Park Avenue. He was appointed by Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani at the end of a selection process launched in recent months to choose a successor to Professor Fabio Finotti, who led the institute for four years.

Born in Frosinone on June 2, 1958, a professional journalist enrolled in the Order of Lazio since June 8, 1984, between 1981 and 1988 he was editor at the Gazzetta del Popolo and Stampa Sera. He joined RAI in 1988 as editor for the Regional Headquarters for Piedmont. In 1991 he is called to Rome in the foreign editorial staff of Tg2, where in 1992 he is promoted to news chief. Two years later he is given the job position of deputy editor, and in 1995 he is chief foreign editor. In 2001 he is in Paris, as correspondent for radio and television news reports from France.

In 2003 he moved to Jerusalem to take up the post of correspondent-responsible for the RAI bureau for the Middle East: he follows the effects of the second intifada, the victory of Hamas, and Israeli interventions in Gaza. In 2014, he was given the post of correspondent-responsible for the Beijing bureau for radio and television news reports from China, Japan and Southeast Asian countries, to which he was transferred in April. He produces documentaries, investigations, reports and live broadcasts to chronicle the development, challenges and unknowns of the Asian continent. In August 2019, he was given the position of correspondent-chief of the New York bureau for radio and television news reports from the United States.

On October 24, 2023, he published “The Perfect Storm. China and the United States on the brink of World War III” (Piemme Editions, 288 pages, €19.62), a powerful and enlightening essay, full of anecdotes, geopolitical insights, small and large metaphors about the era we are living in and the real risks of a real apocalypse for humankind.