Andrea works at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on coordinating the implementation of the UN Plan of Action on Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, including the administration of the Global Media Defence Fund, and backstopping media assistance in countries in crises. In previous assignments with UNESCO, he has been responsible for the organization of the World Press Freedom Day Global commemorations, and has been in charge of the Communication and Information programme in sub-regional offices for North-East Asia (Beijing 2011-14), the Maghreb (Rabat 2015-18), as well as in the UNESCO office in Afghanistan (2003-04). Always dealing with media development and the promotion of freedom of expression, he has undertaken missions to the Middle-East, Central Asia, as well as Central and East African countries, and worked for specialized NGO International Media Support. Before that, he worked as an investigative journalist and a current-affairs documentary maker in his country of origin, Italy.