Ambassador Pierantoni is an experienced diplomat, with almost 25 years of service in the European Union. His first posting was in Sudan, between 2005 and 2008, during the Darfur crisis. Between 2008 and 2013  he worked at the EU Delegation to Thailand where he was in charge of the assistance programme in Burma/Myanmar and along the Thai-Burma border. 

Between 2014 and 2019 he was the Head of the EU Regional Cooperation in the Caribbean, being posted initially in Georgetown (Guyana) and, later on, in Bridgetown (Barbados). In 2019 he was nominated as Head of the EU Cooperation to Argentina. 

Just before being nominated Ambassador to Guyana, Suriname and Caricom, he was serving as the Head of the Political Team at the European Commission’s Representation in Italy. 

Ambassador Luca Pierantoni is a Lawyer specialising in Human Rights and EU Law, he has studied in Naples (Italy) where he hails from.