Tana De Zulueta

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Tana De Zulueta (actually Cayetana De Zulueta Owtram ; born October 4, 1951 in Bogotá , Colombia ) is an Italian journalist and politician ( Verdi ). She was a member of the Italian Senate from 1996 to 2006 and a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2006 to 2008 .

Career

De Zulueta was born in Bogota on October 4, 1951 to a Spanish father and an English mother. She studied in Geneva, Uganda, Beirut and London, among others. In 1972 she graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in anthropology and archeology with a thesis on "The Caste System in India" with honors. She then worked as a journalist for the BBC and ITV, among others . From 1977 to 1987 she was a correspondent for The Sunday Times , then until 1996 for The Economist in Rome.

In 1996 she was elected to the Italian Senate. During her first legislative term (1996–2001) she was Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly . After her re-election in 2001, she was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Committee on Human Rights and the Defense Committee of the Senate, Vice-President of the Italian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , and Delegate of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) . In April 2006 she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies on the list of the Italian Greens. There she served as Vice-President of the Committee on Foreign and European Affairs and a member of the Defense Committee. She was also head of the Italian delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EuroMed).

In September 2014, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights ( ODIHR ) declared her Head of the OSCE Observer Mission for the 2014 parliamentary elections in Ukraine .

Private

De Zulueta is fluent in Italian, English, Spanish and French, is married with a son and a daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Short biography of De Zuleta on politici.openpolis.it , accessed on September 21, 2014
  2. ↑ Cayetana De Zulueta Owtram , Camera dei deputati - Portale storico. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
  3. ^ A b c biography of Tana De Zulueta at the German embassy in Rome.
  4. ↑ a b biography on their official website ( memento of the original from October 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 21, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tanadezulueta.it
  5. ↑ OSCE / ODIHR opens election observation mission for early parliamentary elections in Ukraine - announcement ; from the OSCE website, accessed 19 September 2014.
personal data
SURNAME De Zulueta, Tana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Zulueta Owtram, Cayetana (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian journalist and politician, member of the Camera dei deputati
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogotá , Colombia