Michele Chiaruzzi (born September 12, 1983, in San Marino) is a Sammarinese academic and diplomat, since 2008 ambassador of San Marino to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Chiaruzzi holds a Ph.D. in history from the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici di San Marino.[1][2] He has researched the British scholar Martin Wight, publishing in 2016 the book Martin Wight on Fortune and Irony in Politics.
A Clare Hall, Cambridge life member,[3] and professor at the University of Bologna,[1] he is the founding director of the Research Centre for International Relations at the University of San Marino.[citation needed]
Appointed at age 25 in 2008, Chiaruzzi has served as first (resident, and later non-resident) ambassador of San Marino to Bosnia and Herzegovina.[4][5]
His unusual diplomatic figure has attracted international media attention,[6] also featuring in Goran Milic's documentary for Al Jazeera "Alkemija Balkana".[7]
In July 2010, on his initiative, the municipality of Chiesanuova in San Marino placed a plaque in memory of the Srebrenica genocide, one of the first monuments in Europe dedicated to it.[8]
In 2019 Chiaruzzi created the sculpture Dialogue, the first ever monument devoted to interfaith dialogue.[9]