# List of ambassadors of Italy to NATO

The Italian Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council is the Permanent Representative of the Italian government to the North Atlantic Council.
| Diplomatic accreditation | Permanent Representative | Observations | List of prime ministers of Italy | Term end |
| November 21, 1950 | Alberto Rossi Longhi [it] | Minister Plenipotentiary and Ambassador | Ferruccio Parri | May 31, 1954 |
| June 1, 1954 | Adolfo Alessandrini [it] | | Amintore Fanfani | January 17, 1958 |
| January 18, 1958 | Umberto Grazzi [it] | | Amintore Fanfani | May 8, 1959 |
| May 9, 1959 | Adolfo Alessandrini [it] | From January 1959 to May 1959 he was Italian Ambassador to Canada [it] | Antonio Segni | October 2, 1967 |
| October 3, 1967 | Carlo De Ferrariis Salzano [it] | | Giovanni Leone | January 15, 1971 |
| January 22, 1971 | Felice Catalano di Melilli [it] | | Emilio Colombo | January 16, 1980 |
| January 18, 1980 | Vincenzo Tornetta | (*He was born in Piazza Armerina (Enna) in 1917 ) In 1939 he was graduated in Political Science at the University of Florence. In 1948 he entered the diplomatic service. From 1951 to 1955 he was assigned to Caracas. In 1955 he was transferred to the United Nations Representation in New York. In 1961 he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1964 to 1967 he was sent back to New York. From 1965 to 1966, in the period in which Amintore Fanfani was president of the UN General Assembly he served in the United Nations Secretariat. From 1967 to 1972 he was Italian Ambassador to Vietnam (Saigon). In 1972 he became Director General of Emigration Social Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy). In 1974 he was appointed general director of the Italo-Latin American Institute [it]. | Francesco Cossiga | April 14, 1983 |
| April 14, 1983 | Sergio Romano (writer) | | Bettino Craxi | September 18, 1985 |
| September 19, 1985 | Francesco Paolo Fulci | | Bettino Craxi | January 15, 1991 |
| June 15, 1991 | Enzo Perlot | (*born on November 17, 1933, in Mezzolombardo) Son of the late Augusto and Ida (Paoli) Perlot. In 1989 he was Italian Ambassador to Portugal. | Giulio Andreotti | May 6, 1993 |
| July 26, 1993 | Giovanni Jannuzzi | (*Born in Rome, November 6, 1935 ) From 1980 to 1982 he was Italian Ambassador to Nigeria (Lagos). | Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | May 1, 1998 |
| May 2, 1998 | Amedeo De Franchis | (*born on 9 August 1939 in Naples) From 1984 to January 1988 he was Italian Ambassador to Pakistan. | Massimo D’Alema | September 6, 2002 |
| September 7, 2002 | Maurizio Moreno [it] | | Silvio Berlusconi | February 22, 2007 |
| April 12, 2007 | Stefano Stefanini | | Silvio Berlusconi | December 1, 2010 |
| December 12, 2010 | Riccardo Sessa [it] | | Silvio Berlusconi | December 31, 2012 |
| January 21, 2013 | Gabriele Checchia | | Mario Monti | September 19, 2014 |
| October 1, 2014 | Maria Angela Zappia Caillaux | Minister Plenipotentiary | Matteo Renzi | March 6, 2016 |
| March 7, 2016 | Claudio Bisogniero | (* born in Rome, on July 2 1954) | Matteo Renzi | April 12, 2019 |
| April 15, 2019 | Francesco Talò | (* born in La Spezia, on August 16, 1958) | Giuseppe Conte | February 12, 2021 |