Annateresa Rondinella is an art historian, an expert in UNESCO issues and a consultant to UNESCO.
Member of the National and International Higher Education and Research Committee of the UNESCO Chair on the “Future of Education for Sustainability” at the Pontifical Lateran University. Member of the UNESCO Chair in “Mediterranean Cultural Landscapes and Communities of Knowledge” at the University of Basilicata.
Creator of the project “Dialogues of UNESCO Chairs: a laboratory of ideas for the world to come”. Coordinator of the Commission for Institutional Relations for the Italian UNESCO Chairs. Deputy Secretary General of the CICT-UNESCO. Focal Point and member of the Scientific Committee of Lucca Learning City UNESCO. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Decade of Education for Sustainability (2005-2014) established at the Italian National Commission for UNESCO and current member of the Scientific Council of the National Committee for Education for Sustainability Agenda 2030.
She specialized at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) on the Interactions between Communities, Heritage and Politics and obtained a Masters in International Relations at the Institut Jacques Delors in Paris within the Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne. In the context of NGOs in official partnership with UNESCO, she is director of the program for the validation of formal, informal and non-formal competences of NGOs. She is the author of publications, articles and essays in Italian and foreign magazines and is the coordinator of UNESCO cultural projects and programs mainly in the field of Learning Cities, Memory of the World, Culture of Peace, Education for Sustainability, World Heritage.