Africa's Next Play

Federico Rampini,
Journalist

Federico Rampini is the US based global columnist of the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera and previously US Chief Correspondent of La Repubblica. He has been based in New York since 2009, also covering international summits, including the G7 and G20, APEC-ASEAN and NATO. He is a White House correspondent, covering the international trips of US presidents. His previous assignment had been as the China and Asia bureau chief, based in Beijing, from 2004 to 2009. From 2000 to 2004 he had been based in San Francisco as the West Coast, technology correspondent and global geopolitics columnist for La Repubblica. As a foreign correspondent his past assignments included Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt. He was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley (2002 - 2004), Visiting Professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (2004 - 2009), Visiting Professor at the MBA of the Business School SDA-Bocconi in Milano, joint program with the Barcelona ESADE Business School (2011 – current). A prolific writer, he is the author of more than twenty essays on immigration and globalization, technology, China, India. His latest book, “The Night of the Left”, has been among the ten best-selling books in Italy in 2019. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Affairs, in New York and Washington DC and a frequent panelist on China at the Asia Society, New York. He was associated with the organization of the Congress of Vienna 2015 by the Chumir Foundation on Ethics in Leadership. He has written and produced four theater performances, based on his books.