Board of directors

Together with the President, it is the management body of the Authority. It is appointed by the Minister of the Environment to represent the Scientific Institutions, the Minister of the Environment, the Minister of Agricultural Resources, the Environmental Associations, and representatives of the Park Community.

The Governing Council elects from among its members a Vice President and, if necessary, an Executive Council of five members, including the President, according to the methods and functions established in the Statute of the Park Authority. Among its functions it determines the programmatic direction and defines the objectives to be pursued and verifies, by means of its President, the correspondence of the results of the administrative management to the general directives given; it outlines the overall activity of the Park Authority, basing it on the principles of good performance, impartiality and legality as well as on the criteria of economy, efficacy and publicity according to the modalities envisaged by the laws and other provisions that regulate individual procedures.

Valentina Viola, Acting President of the Park Authority

The following are members of the board of directors of the Pollino National Park Authority:

Valentina Viola upon nomination by the Park Community, Vice President of the Park Authority (DEC/MiTE no. 371 of 10.09.2021)
Angelo Catapano upon nomination by the Park Community (DEC/MiTE no. 371 of 10.09.2021)
Mosé Antonio Troiano upon nomination by the Park Community (DEC/MiTE no. 371 of 10.09.2021)
Angelina Barbiero upon nomination by the Park Community (DEC/MiTE no. 371 of 10.09.2021)
Fabio Annunziata upon nomination by the Ministry of Ecological Transition (DEC/MiTE no. 371 of 10.09.2021)
Luciana Carotenuto upon nomination by ISPRA (DEC/MiTE no. 371 of 10.09.2021)
Giuseppe Ciarfaglia upon nomination by the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (DEC/MiTE no. 371 of 10.09.2021)
Maria Luisa Ronconi upon designation by the Environmental Protection Associations (DEC/MiTE no. 371 of 10.09.2021)

Valentina Viola

by designation of the Park Community, vice president of the Park Authority (DEC/MiTE no. 371 of 09/10/2021)

Valentina Viola born in Chiaromonte on 05/23/1984, graduated in Law and licensed to practice law. Mayor of Chiaromonte from 2014 to present and board member of the Stella Maris Mediterraneo Foundation. Since October 2021 Vice president of the Pollino Park Authority.

Fabio Annunziata

Graduate in environmental engineering, I have been involved in public resource planning, both in the environmental and financial fields, for about 25 years.

I've been working in the Public Administration since 1996 and until 2008 my professional activity was focused on the programming of activities and interventions within the Ministry of Economy and Finance and in the implementation of management information systems. From 2008 to 2014, within the Ministry of Environment, my professional experience focused on environmental regulation and implementation of environmental and spatial information systems. After a period (until June 2020) in international relations in energy regulation and EU environmental taxation, I returned to the current Ministry of Ecological Transition to deal with budget and NRP.

Luciana Carotenuto

by designation of ISPRA (DEC/MiTE no. 371 of 10.09.2021)

With a naturalist background, after my PhD in Geobotany at the University of Pavia I focused my attention on biodiversity conservation, first attending the three-year specialisation school in "Management of the natural environment and protected areas" at the University of Camerino, then the master's degree in "Conservation of animal biodiversity: protected areas and ecological networks" at the Sapienza University. In November 2005, after winning a competition at the Lazio Region as a technical naturalist officer, I started working for the regional system of protected areas, where I served in the Riserva Montagne della Duchessa (RI) and the Riserva Selva del Lamone (VT). In July 2016, I moved from the protected areas to the Regional Environment Directorate, which is responsible for implementing European and national standards for the protection of biodiversity on a regional scale. In January 2022 I won a competition at the Ministry of Ecological Transition as a technical nature officer and in April 2022 I started working for this governing body. I have also had working and nature volunteering experiences abroad (Spain, UK, USA) with the aim of enriching my knowledge of biodiversity and concrete conservation actions.

Giuseppe Ciarfaglia

by designation of the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (DEC/MiTE no. 371 of 10.09.2021)

I am a freelance professional enrolled in the Professional Register of Agricultural Surveyors since 1987. Happily married to Giovanna and father of Francesco and Chiara. I'm the owner of an agronomic office in the province of Matera which has been involved in consultancy and subsidised finance in agriculture for over thirty years. Registered in the C.T.U. lists of the Court of Matera. I deal with design, work supervision, drafting of Business Development Plans, Business Plans and technical consultancy for P.S.R. projects.