National Member

Pending appointment

Assistants to the National Member

Aldo Ingangi is Assistant to the National Member for Italy. He became a magistrate in 1997 and, from 1999, worked as a Public Prosecutor in the prosecutor's offices of Paola, Naples and Lucca. During that time, he dealt with many cases of mafia-type crimes as appointed by the District Anti-Mafia Directorates of Catanzaro, Naples and Florence, developing a good experience on the criminal organisations ‘Ndrangheta and Camorra. During his career, he has worked mainly on financial and economic crimes, organised crime groups and drug trafficking, frequently dealing with judicial cooperation tools. On behalf of the Italian Ministry of Justice, Mr Ingangi assisted the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) of the Council of Europe in preparing the evaluation cycle of the compliance with the European Treaty on corruption of the national rules for the prevention of corruption in the judicial and parliamentary fields (4th cycle). As a speaker, he attended to courses and conferences organised by the Italian High Council of the Judiciary and the High School of the Judiciary on financial crimes, judicial cooperation tools, IT and Public Prosecutor Offices’ organisation.

Gianluca Forlani has been Assistant to the National Member since February 2024. He is an Italian judge who started his career at the Court of Agrigento, Sicily, where he dealt with trials concerning mainly organized crime and crimes against life as well as confiscation assets belonging to members of mafia-style criminal organisations such as Cosa Nostra and Stidda. He has also worked as Preliminary Investigations Judge, Preliminary Hearing Judge and Labour Judge in the district of Umbria, from where he was seconded to the Court of Appeal of Perugia as Counsellor. Later, he was seconded to the Italian Ministry of Justice at the General Directorate for the Judiciary, dealing with disciplinary proceedings of magistrates; furthermore, he was seconded to the Legislative Office to examine, promote and implement national, European and international legislation. From 2017 to 2023, he worked at the Permanent Representation of Italy to the European Union as Justice and Home Affairs Counsellor in charge of the issues connected to judicial cooperation in criminal matters. Here he negotiated major European legislative instruments in the field of the criminal justice. During his career, he acted as focal point of the Ministry of Justice to the OECD and was designated as the Italian representative to the ENCJ. He was appointed Key Expert in the Project Support for the Modernization of the Administration of Justice in Egypt by the Italian High Council for the Judiciary. Within the United Nations, he was designated as expert for the Ministry of Justice to participate National Periodic Report on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (2017), and as a Delegate of the Italian Ministry of Justice to the UNCITRAL Enforcement of international commercial settlement agreements resulting from conciliation (2017).

Seconded National Experts (SNEs)

Sergio Orlandi is Seconded National Expert to the Italian Desk. He is a Chief Superintendent of the Penitentiary Police and has worked as a Chief Commanding Officer in Sanremo Penitentiary since 2007, where he directly managed and actively operated the prison service security branch. He has coordinated the prison referral unit to prevent and counter radicalisation and violent extremism at the local level. Mr Orlandi has been a participant member of the prison referral unit P/CVE coordinating system at the regional level (2015 to 2018). Before his secondment to Eurojust, he enrolled in the 34th High Training Course of the Italian Interagency Law Enforcement College of Advanced Studies (Rome, October 2018 to June 2019). He has developed deep expertise in international cooperation for countering terrorism and violent extremism in the European legal framework. Qualified for the Italian Prison Service's international missions, he has participated as a penitentiary expert in the framework of an EU twinning program between Algerian, French, and Italian prison services.