Michele Chiaruzzi (born September 12, 1983 in

City of San Marino The City of San Marino ( it, Città di San Marino; also known simply as San Marino and locally as Città) is the capital city of the Republic of San Marino. It has a population of 4,061. It is on the western slopes of San Marino's highest poi ...

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) is the current ambassador of

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...

. He was the first sammarinese ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina at unusually young age and supposedly the youngest European resident ambassador at the time, having presented his credential letters in 2008 to the President

Haris Silajdžić Haris Silajdžić (; born 1 October 1945) is a Bosnians, Bosnian politician and Academic personnel, academic who served as the List of Bosniak members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 5th Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and ...

. He has been a taekwondo fighter at the St. Petersburg Student World Championships and he holds a PhD in History from the

Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici di San Marino The Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici di San Marino (Graduate School of Historical Studies at San Marino), founded in 1988, is a doctorate-awarding centre for research and study in history and related humanities, with a strong international characte ...

. Before his diplomatic role, he has been a visiting fellow with the Centre for International Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the

Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs is an interdisciplinary research center at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Its mission is to promote a just and peaceful world through research, teaching, and public engagement ...

at Brown University while ambassador

Richard Holbrooke Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (April 24, 1941 – December 13, 2010) was an American diplomat and author. He was the only person to have held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for two different regions of the world (Asia from 1977 ...

was serving as professor at large. A Clare Hall Life Member at Cambridge, and Professor at Bologna, he is the founding director of the Research Centre for International Relations at the University of San Marino. He has been described as "one of the few people in the microstate who might qualify for the designation ‘public intellectual’". His book
Martin Wight on Fortune and Irony in Politics
' included the unpublished ‘Fortune’s Banter’, a text subsequently reproduced without «Professor Chiaruzzi’s extensive and impressive scholarly annotations» in the Oxford University Press collection of Wight’s miscellaneous works. His unusual diplomatic figure has attracted international media attention. He has been one of the protagonists in Goran Milic's documentary for Al Jazeera "Alkemija Balkana". On 14 July 2010, on his initiative the local government of

Chiesanuova Chiesanuova ( rgn, Cisanòva) is a minor municipality of San Marino. It has a population of 1,143 inhabitants (May 2018) in an area of 5.46 km2. Etymology From Italian language, Italian ''chiesa'' ("church") + ''nuova'', feminine singular o ...

placed a monumental plaque in memory of the Srebrenica genocide. It is one of the first public monuments in Europe dedicated to those events. That year he has been honoured at the Ambassador's Alley in Sarajevo. Promoting dialogue among civilizations, in 2019 he has realized the 'Chapel of three religions', the first ever monument of its kind devoted to interfaith dialogue. The embassy of San Marino in Sarajevo is located in the building created by the Austro-Hungarian historian

Hamdija Kreševljaković Hamdija Kreševljaković (18 September 1888 – 9 May 1959) was a Bosnian and Yugoslav historian. Biography Kreševljaković was born in Vratnik, a neighborhood in Sarajevo's Old Town. His father Mehmed (died 1929) was the son of Ibrahim Kreševl ...

to whom is dedicated the homonym residential street.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chiaruzzi, Michele Living people Ambassadors of San Marino to Bosnia and Herzegovina 1983 births Sammarinese political scientists Sammarinese historians