Giovanni Cafiero, 33, born in Gragnano, is the new director of the Consorzio di Tutela della Pasta di Gragnano IGP. The appointment was reported by Metropolis Web and ANSA, and Cafiero is now listed under the direction of the consortium on its official website.
Cafiero moves up from inside the organization. He previously served as the consortium's head of promotion, a role he held for six years before taking over the direction.
Training in economics, marketing and food law
Reporting on the appointment points to a background combining business training and food-sector specialization.
Cafiero holds a degree in business economics and studied marketing in Turin. He later specialized at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, completed a second-level master's degree in food law, and completed an executive master focused on directors of protection consortia. His studies also covered geographical indications.
He is also scientific coordinator at 24ORE Business School.
The consortium in brief
For readers following the Gragnano pasta designation, the consortium provides a short institutional timeline on its official site.
The Consorzio was founded in 2004. Pasta di Gragnano received Protected Geographical Indication status in 2013. The body later became an officially recognized protection consortium in 2019.
The official consortium page for its organization now lists Giovanni Cafiero under "direzione."
Continuity and generational renewal
The appointment is presented as combining continuity within the consortium with generational renewal, along with an ambition to strengthen the international profile of Pasta di Gragnano IGP.
The sources acquired for this article do not identify the precise date or body that formally approved the appointment, and the consortium's official page confirms Cafiero's place in its current structure without publishing a separate appointment announcement.
