Sergio Balanzino

Sergio Balanzino was born on 20th June 1934 in Bologna, Italy. After graduating in Law from the University of Rome he joine the Italian Secret service in 1958. He served as the foreign ambassador to Canada from May 1990 to January 1994. He then became the Deputy Secretary General of NATO before briefly becoming Secretary General 2 times. Firstly by replacing Manfred Wörner on August 13th 1994 after the latter resigned in the last stages of cancer. He was then replaced by Willy Claes on October 17th 1994 who resigned on alleged corruption charges on October 20th 1995. Balanzino, who had gone back to being Deputy, again took over the reins until he was replaced on December 5th 1995 by Javier Solana.