Rodolfo Giampieri is the first President of the Central Adriatic Ports Authority, established in 2016 for the management of the six ports of Pesaro, Ancona-Falconara, S. Benedetto del Tronto, Pescara and Ortona.

Previously Commissioner and President of Ancona Port Authority (2013-2016), he gave priority to the implementation of port infrastructures, informatisation of port procedures and to the development of cruise sector in the port and in the territory of Marche region through the “Welcome to Ancona” territorial promotion initiative.

Being a convinced promoter of the port-city dialogue as key factor to ensure sustainable and durable development of port infrastructures, in 2015 he inaugurated the opening of the Ancona Old Port, a port area rich in monumental and cultural heritage opened for recreational and leisure activities as part of the port-city dialogue initiative and shortly become a tourist and social highlight of the town.

Form 2005 to 2013 he served in the Ancona Chamber of Commerce, as Vice-President (2005-2009) becoming president in 2010 until 2013. In 2005 he launched the territorial promotion project “Welcome to Ancona”, awarded with national and international recognitions as best practice to coordinate institutional and private initiatives related to passengers welcoming in a cruise destination.

Furthermore, he was coordinator of the Marche Logistics Observatory, the institutional platform to promote the coordinated development of the main logistics infrastructures of the region: the port of Ancona, Marche Freight Village and Marche airport.

In 2010, he was appointed Vice President of the Forum of the Adriatic-Ionian Chambers of Commerce (AICC), the international association bringing together 45 Chambers of Commerce from the two shores of the Adriatic Sea, representing approximately 1,500,000 companies; in 2013 he was appointed President until 2017.

Since 2011 he has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the Permanent Secretariat of the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative, until 2014.

In 2015, he was appointed in the management board of the Marche Polytechnic University, until 2018.

Appointed in Unioncamere Marche (the regional association of the Chambers of Commerce) in 2010, he acted as delegate to the internationalisation and to the relations with the European Union and the Balkans.

In 2011, he was appointed member of the Unioncamere (the Italian national association of the Chambers of Commerce) national Infrastructure Commission until 2015.

In 2007 he was appointed as member of the management board of the bank Banca popolare di Ancona, until 2017.

Rodolfo Giampieri was born in Ancona on 1954.