Fabio Baggio

Fabio Baggio is a missionary of the Scalabrinian Congregation (Missionaries of San Charles Borromeo). He was born in Bassano del Grappa (Italy), in 1965. He was counselor of the INCAMI (Episcopal Commission for Migrations of Chile) in Santiago de Chile, from 1995 to 1997, and Director of the Migration Department of the Archdioceses of Buenos Aires (Argentina) from 1997 to 2002. Fabio worked as researcher in the Center for Latin-American Migration Studies (CEMLA), in Buenos Aires, from 1998 to 2002. He taught as an invited professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Universidad del Salvador, in Buenos Aires, from 1999 to 2002, and at the Institute of Theology of Sao Paulo – ITESP (Brazil). Moreover Fabio was co-coordinator of the Migration Theology Program at the Loyola School of Theology, Quezon City, Philippines, from 2008 to 2010, invited professor at the Loyola School of Theology, Quezon City, from 2008 to 2010, director of the Scalabrini Migration Center (SMC) in Quezon City, from 2002 to 2010, editor of the Asian Pacific Migration Journal (APMJ) and Asian Migration News (AMN) from 2002 to 2010, and vice-president of the Philippines Migrant Rights Watch (PMRW), from 2003 to 2010. He was Director of the Scalabrini International Migration Institute – SIMI, in Rome from 2010 to 2016 and Invited Professor at the Master Internacional de Migraciones y Doctorado Internacional de Migraciones of the Universidad de Valencia, Spain from 2006 to 2016.

At this moment, he is:

• Under-Secretary of the Dicastery for the Promotion of the Integral Human Development of the Holy See;
• Director General of the Centro di Alta Formazione Laudato Si’, Vatican;
• Invited Professor at the Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana in Rome, Italy;
• Member of the Advisory Council of the Instituto de Estudios sobre Migraciones (IUEM) of the Comillas University, Madrid, Spain.