Prof. Giovanni Tartaglia Polcini

Ordinary magistrate · Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

An ordinary magistrate since 1996, he served as Public Prosecutor at the district magistrate's court and the ordinary court in the district of the Court of Appeal of Naples, assigned to the Naples District Anti-Mafia Directorate for investigations and trials concerning organised crime. He conducted major investigations in the fight against fraud, environmental crime, drug trafficking, money laundering, usury and corruption.

Between 2005 and 2008 he provided technical support to the Ministry of the Interior for training law-enforcement officers in combating money laundering and in the confiscation and management of seized assets, producing manuals and monographs including "Ariadne's Thread" and "Mafias, drug trafficking and money laundering".

Since October 2014 he has been Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (DGMO). He founded the discipline known as "legal diplomacy" and works at national, international and multilateral level on the harmonisation of legal systems and technical assistance in justice and security (United Nations/UNODC, G7, G20, EU, OAS, SICA, MERCOSUR). He is the Italian delegate to the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group (ACWG) and the OECD Working Group on Bribery (WGB), and an expert in the review process of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).

He is a contract university professor of Anti-Mafia Law, author of numerous writings in national and international legal journals, Co-Director of the journal "Il Diritto penale della Globalizzazione" and a member of the scientific committees of Eurispes and the Italian Diplomatic Academy.