Stefano Beltrame, from Verona, is the new Italian Ambassador to Moscow. He was officially accredited on 15 January 2026, after presenting his credentials to President Putin. Beltrame was appointed by the Council of Ministers in August 2025.
A career diplomat, Beltrame has held important positions in various foreign posts and has served as diplomatic adviser to several Italian ministers. Before this appointment, he was Ambassador to Vienna.
Stefano Beltrame was born in Verona on 8 December 1960 and has been Diplomatic Adviser to the Minister of the Interior since July 2018. From 2013 to 2018, he was Consul General of Italy in Shanghai, China. From 2010 to 2013, he was Diplomatic Adviser to the President of the Veneto Region, Zaia. From 2006 to 2010, he was First Diplomatic Counsellor at the Italian Embassy in Washington DC. He has also held positions at the Italian embassies in Iran, Berlin, and Kuwait.
Beltrame has published several books. In 1999, Storia del Kuwait: gli arabi, il petrolio e l’Occidente (History of Kuwait: Arabs, Oil and the West). In 2003, he published La prima guerra del Golfo. Perché non fu presa Baghdad. Dalla Cronaca all’analisi di un conflitto ancora aperto (The First Gulf War: Why Baghdad Was Not Taken. From Chronicle to Analysis of a Conflict Still Open). In 2009, Rubettino published Mossadeq. L’Iran, il petrolio, gli Stati Uniti e le radici della Rivoluzione Islamica (Mossadeq. Iran, Oil, the United States and the Roots of the Islamic Revolution). All these texts remain highly topical. In 2019, he published Breve storia degli italiani in Cina (A Brief History of Italians in China). In 2022, with Raffaele Marchetti, he published For the Homeland and for Profit multinationals and Foreign Policy from the East India Companies to the Giants of the Web.
L’Adige wishes Ambassador Beltrame every success in Russia, contributing to the achievement of peace and prosperity for our two countries.
