DUILIO CORTASSA

   DUILIO CORTASSA joined the international law firm Allen & Overy in October and heads the Italian Desk, providing assistance to Italian investors in Poland and to Italian companies doing business with Poland. After completing his studies at the Turin University Law School and at the Foundation for International Studies in Florence, he practiced law in Milan and Turin prior to becoming an associate with Brosio, Casati e Associati in 1990. He then joined the Italian Foreign Service and was posted in Warsaw as head of the consular services between 1994 and 1998. Apart from his native Italian, he speaks English, French, German and conversational Polish.