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Message from the President

Welcome on the website of the Puglia Center of America!

My name is Luciano Lamonarca and it is a distinct honor for me to serve as a President of this organization.

The Puglia Center of America promotes the Puglia region of Italy in all its aspects, especially in the creation and exchanges of cultural, tourist and educational assets between the Puglia region of Italy and the United States of America. Among our goals there are also those to organize promotional and cultural events that serve to support global objectives, as the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, missionary and humanitarian projects aimed at fighting cancer.

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Directors

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Luciano Lamonarca

Luciano Lamonarca is a pop-operatic tenor, philanthropist, producer and artistic director …

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Valentina Popa

Valentina Popa

Valentina Popa is an international relations expert, currently working for the United Nations in New York.

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Francesco Di Franco

Francesco Di Franco is a corporate lawyer and a management assistant and he works since 2008 …

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Advisory Board

  • Ornella Fado, Founder OK Productions LLC - TV Producer/Author/ TV Hostess
  • Prof. Anthony Julian Tamburri, Adviser for the American-Italian Community Affair and for the US Academic Affair
  • Mr. Robert DeFazio, Puglia Center of America Representative
  • Rev. Mons. Nicholas Lombardi, Columbus Citizen Foundation’ s chaplain
  • Christin Moretti, US Coordinator
  • Federica Cardellicchio, Italian Coordinator
  • Pasquale Martinelli, Adviser for the Culinary Arts
  • Rocco Lamparelli, Official Photographer in Italy

Honorary Members

  • H.E. Mons. Francesco Cacucci, Archbishop of Bari and President of the Episcopal Conference of Puglia (Chaplain)
  • Mr. Sandro Petrone, Deputy Chief of Editor of RAI TG2 for foreign countries (national Media Adviser for Italy)
  • Mr. Carmine Festa, Journalist of La Stampa, Chief of Editor of Il Corriere del Mezzogiorno (Media Adviser Puglia)
  • Mr. Attilio Romita, TV Journalist of TG1 Rai News, Italian Public Service Broadcaster
  • Doct. Francesco Schittulli, President of the Province of Bari and President of the Italian National Cancer League
  • Doct. Silvia Godelli, Commissioner for Culture, Tourism, Peace and Mediterranean Area of the Region of Puglia
  • Mr. Pasquale Natuzzi, President & CEO of the Natuzzi Group
  • Prof. Giuseppe Macario, Honorary Member delegate for the Italian Academic Affairs

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