GIULIA TARIELLO
My name is Giulia Tariello, I am 24 and I am from Rome, although now I am living in Milan to finish my master’s. Since I was little, I have wanted to travel the world, and to be an ambassador. I pursued this goal during my university years, studying the functioning of international organizations and diplomacy, and during my Erasmus in Spain. In the meanwhile, I had the chance to practice what I learned and to test my abilities. In fact, I am a Board Member of MSOI Milano, which is an outstanding opportunity to try myself. Furthermore, thanks to the internship at OCCAM, an NGO affiliated with the UN, I got more involved in an international environment. As a University Student in Diplomacy, acquiring new skills and abilities thanks to the UNYDP experience is one of my life goals. After studying the functioning of International Organizations, especially the United Nations, for five years, I am eager to put into practice what I have learned and to make great progress toward my future. Furthermore, I consider myself a very ambitious individual who is open to learning and sharing ideas. I believe in the power of intercultural bond, in the exchange of different visions from a global connection perspective. Leaving one’s own country means having the opportunity to assimilate what is different and to bring it into one’s nation as a gift. Representing Italy is my aspiration. Taking part in the UNYDP program would be the first step to getting closer to the world of diplomacy and understanding the mechanisms that drive Italian foreign policy.
Giulia Tariello
“I believe in the power of intercultural bond, in the exchange of different visions from a global connection perspective. Starting point: one’s own country! Representing Italy is my aspiration.”
Gabriele Colella
“Determination is going to spell the difference between living in the world we aspire to or being swept away by the waves of change.”
GABRIELE COLELLA
I am Gabriele, I was born in Rome in 2003 and I’m currently attending my second year of the law program at Bocconi University Law School in Milan.
I took part in the local Boy Scouts Group through the AGESCI agency, staying for approximately six years and learning firsthand the value of teamwork and sacrifice.
My passion for the world of international relations was born during my last year of middle school, where I had the opportunity to join the Rome International Model United Nations. During those days, as much as the preparation courses leading up to that conference and the following Models in Milan and Brown University, I started to realize what it means to represent a country, to sustain its interests and its goals in the complexity of international organizations. The meeting of requests, originating from the peculiar socio-economic necessities of different States, which are all members of a confusing yet fascinating melting pot that is the UN captivated my interest. Every country tries to further its own interests, but it is through an open discussion that a common solution is agreed to.
Just like the UN, every other international institution can play a crucial role in national policy-making, benefiting all countries that partake in said institutions.
My university experience, while providing me with quality formal education in a field I grew more and more fond of, exposed me to many students’ associations, allowing me to join in some of those: “Aleph: Strategic Analysis” focuses on nurturing and developing the culture of geopolitics, in all its different facets, through analysis and events. I organized an event named “Geopolitics of Energy: the Ukranian crisis”, which sought to explore the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Eurasian energy markets. Advocacy & Litigation, on the other hand, specializes in opening the doors of the wide legal world to law students: with this society I took part in an online workshop with international law firm White&Case on the topic of approaches of sustainable corporate finance and investments in the green revolution”.
Corporate Law Academy, with a preference for the world of corporate law and its peculiarities, allowed me to participate in a workshop hosted by a law firm, Russo de Rossa, which focused on providing legal assistance to innovative startups in their embryonal phases.
The opportunity to represent the interests of the Italian youth is both a great honor and the most important challenge of the journey I embarked on so far, and I will make sure their requests, which are also mine, and my country’s will be adequately put forward.
What I learned through my studies, my experiences and from recent happenings, is that the correct approach to solving issues from the point of view of States must not and cannot be “egocentric” in nature: with challenges becoming more and more global in their effects and causes, what dictates the response to said challenges should be the same spirit that led individual countries to acknowledge the need to bind themselves by shared rules and organize themselves in international organizations. This makes me even prouder and grateful to be able to represent these values as a Youth Delegate of Italy.
