Antonio Barreca
DIRECTOR GENERAL FEDERTURISMO CONFINDUSTRIA
Antonio Barreca is, since 2011, the General Director of the Italian Association of Travel and Tourism Industry, Federturismo has more than 8000 members and represent all the biggest companies in the Tourism and Transport sector.
He is graduated in Political Science at Luiss University in Rome and have a PhD in Public Law at the University of Perugia. He attended two executive courses at the Harvard, John Kennedy School of Government in 2013 and 2015.
After an experience at the Economic Department of the Presidency of the Italian Council he went to Brussels for 10 years where he served as Head of EU Affairs for Federturismo Confindustria. He has worked also for the Economic and Social Committee and with the European Parliament. He served in 2014 as Senior Advisor for Tourism for the Region Sicily. He was Member of the Tourism Sustainability Group of the European Commission (since February 2011), Vice President of the Tourism Committee at the Italian Organization for Standardization (UNI), an association that publishes standards for industrial, commercial and tertiary sectors. Since March 2008, he is been managing national and international activities in the field of standardization of the tourism sector and he attended the world annual meeting of the ISO TC/228 as the Italian delegate.
He is, among others, contract professor at Luiss University and at Luiss Business School.
