Janine Dickinson CV

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Cav. Janine Dickinson acts as a consultant to Italian companies with business interests in Australia. Her principal interest is Holiday Rentals in Italy through her company, Agenzia Italia. She has commercial interests in Rome and Florence, with a wide network of commercial and academic enterprise at all levels, in both countries. She lives between Australia and Italy. She is a Justice of the Peace qualified in the State of Queensland.

She was, for 10 years, from 1990, a member of the committee of the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Queensland, to which she was elected for a two-year term as President on March 16, 1999, and was honoured with life membership.
She was the first woman and the first non-Italian to serve as President of an Italian Chamber of Commerce in Australia.

She was editor of ICCI News, and Executive Editor of the Italian Food & Wine Guide. Her commercial background is in sales and marketing.

She holds a BA in European Literature, with majors in history and Italian literature, with post-graduate studies in cultural history, and three years of Ph.D research in Renaissance history on the early Medici.
She was involved in the early conferences of 1988 on Multiculturalism and has been involved with issues of immigration and ethnicity for many years.
In addition, she works as editor and translator of Italian academic and literary publications, and was founding co-editor with Dr. Piero Giorgi of the international Italian academic journal, 'ConVivio: journal of ideas in Italian Studies' and Minerva Publishing.
She does several translations each year, of Italian books and articles and writes and publishes on Italian culture both in Italy and Australia.

She has been since 1988, a member of the Dante Alighieri Society of Brisbane of which she is a life-member and a recipient of the recognition of Benemerenza, and which she served on the committee for nine years as Public Relations Officer, and she is an active participant in a wide range of community issues and organisations.

From 2001-4 she held the position of Convenor on the board of the Italian Consulate’s Progetto Leonardo initiative, designed to heighten interaction between Italy and Queensland—academically, commercially and culturally.

Her principal involvements at present are her company Agenzia Italia - Holiday Rentals in Italy, and research into twentieth century Italian writers, with an emphasis on the Civil War in Italy. She is a member of the Queensland & NSW Writers Centres.

In 2004 she was awarded the Italian Honour of Cavaliere (III classe) dell’Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta` italiana, for services to the diffusion of Italian language and culture overseas.
Her passionate commitment is the unifying of all elements of italianità in Australian life, and the promotion of fruitful exchange at all levels between the two countries.