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Sergio Nava, born in 1975, is an Italian journalist and communication professional. He works at Radio 24, the main "news & talk" Italian radio station (more than 2 million daily listeners), where he covers foreign news. As from May 2013, he's Deputy Senior Editor at the same radio station.

***JOURNALISM***

As a journalist, he has been covering four G7-8 summits (Evian 2003, L'Aquila 2009, Taormina 2017, Schloss Elmau 2022); two G20 summits (London 2009 and Rome 2021); dozens of European Councils in Brussels and EP Plenary Sessions in Strasbourg; the general elections in Germany (2013 and 2021), the Presidential elections in France (2012, 2017 and 2022), the elections in the UK (2015 and 2019) the general ones in Spain (2015, 2019 and 2023), in The Netherlands (2023) and in Portugal (2024); the 2014 and 2019 European Elections; the Brexit Referendum in London (2016), the ensuing Brexit negotiations and summits (2018-2019) and the actual Brexit Day from the Calais-Dover border (2020); the Catalan Crisis (Independence Referendum and Elections) in Barcelona (2017); the last couple of Italian EU Presidencies (2003 and 2014); plus the entire 2008 U.S presidential campaign - which eventually lead to the election of Barack Obama as the 44th American President. He was in Chicago on the Election Night (4th November 2008).

He regularly produces news reports from different European countries, and he hosts radio shows on EU themes from Brussels.

Apart from this, he covered the 2015 terrorist attack against "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris, and the 2016 terrorist attacks in Brussels.

He contributes on a regular basis both with the Foreign News section of the financial newspaper "Il Sole 24 Ore" and with its website (ilsole24ore.com).

***RADIO ANCHOR***

His first radio show, "Giovani Talenti" (on Saturdays, from 2010 till 2017), dealt with the so-called "new emigration" of young Italian professionals. It was replaced in 2017 by his second radio show: "Generazione Mobile", which focuses more and more on the practical means to help youngsters in getting jobs/internships/study grants/start-up opportunities abroad. In 2022 the show was rebranded as "Generazioni Mobili", in order to further broaden the age group.

As part of the European engagement of Radio 24, which entered the pan-European radio network "Euranetplus" in 2011, Sergio Nava has since then been one of the journalists working on the EU daily news bulletin "Europa 24", on the Reports from Europe and on the European weekly press review. As from September 2017, he's contributing to the weekly "Europa Europa" show, which is part of the second phase of the Euranetplus project.

***OTHER WORK EXPERIENCES***

-In 2007 he took a six month sabbatical, in order to work as the spokesman of the Assembly of European Regions (AER) in Strasbourg, France.

-He wrote three books: the most acclaimed one, "La Fuga dei Talenti" (Ediz. San Paolo, 2009), is a crude exposé of the mass emigration of young Italian professionals abroad. In 2003 he published "Veronica Guerin" (Ediz. San Paolo), the biography of the most famous Irish crime journalist, murdered in Dublin in the mid-90's. A third book, the noir "Doppia Morale" (Leone Editore), was published in 2023. It is Nava's first fiction book.

-Since 2010, he's been moderating roundtables both at national and international level on a variety of themes, such as Europe, international economy and young people.

-Before taking up his position at Radio 24, he worked (during his university period) for different media organisations in the UK (Century Radio), Ireland (The Fingal Independent) and Germany (Bayerischer Rundfunk).

He loves travelling and being always on the lookout for new ideas. He considers Europe as his natural home.