Enrico De Barbieri

Tourism and trade entrepreneur, Honorary Consul of South Africa in Genoa (2003-2019), since 2018 Ambassador of Genoa in the World. In 2022, on the occasion of the 240th anniversary of the great violinist's birth, he was appointed Paganini Ambassador.Former President of ASD Genovese Boccadasse (2018-2022), since 2022 he has chaired the Istituto del Nastro Azzurro and the Associazione Nazionale Volontari di Guerra di Genova. In 2024, he was elected President of the Rovereto Section of the Associazione Nazionale Carabinieri(ANC), and appointed Kenya National Paralympic Committee (K.N.P.C.) Goodwill Ambassador. A past president of the Lions Club Genova Albaro and a Melvin Jones Fellow (MJF), he is a member of numerous Italian and foreign associations with prominent roles. Son of the great violinist Renato De Barbieri, he passes on and keeps alive his father’s work so closely linked to that of Paganini and the Premio, which he helped to found.