A humanitarian worker since the age of 19, he has worked with various international organisations, including Doctors Without Borders and Operazione Colomba, and later with the United Nations (FAO and WHO).

In November of 2017 he was on board the Seawatch 3 during a difficult lifesaving operation off the coast of Libya, in which 50 people lost their lives. Over the years he has worked in various fields of war, including Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Congo, the Central African Republic, Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia, Lebanon and Ethiopia. In 2021, his experience as a humanitarian worker became the subject of a documentary titled Gennaro’s Fever, produced by Claudia Pampinella for Talpa Produzioni and directed by Daniele Cini.

Along with Angela Iantosca, he is the author of the book that won the Premio Nadia Toffa 2024 in the journalism category ‘Con loro, come loro’. Storie di donne e bambini in fuga [Stories of women and children on the run] (Paolini Editoriale Libri, 2024), it tells the stories of women and children running from war and crises from the perspective of a humanitarian worker, at their side to understand their struggles.

From June to July 2024, and then again from February to September 2025, he was in Gaza as a humanitarian worker for the World Health Organization, managing the logistical coordination of aid for the Palestinian people and, at the same time, documenting on his own social media the destruction caused by the bombings.

He has given talks at public, institutional and academic conferences of both national and international significance, offering direct testimony on the importance of international human rights and the protection of civilians in armed conflicts. He has also spoken at the European Parliament, the United Nations, European governments, universities and academic institutions, as well as in seminars and forums on human rights.

He speaks fluent English, French and Spanish.