Imam Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini is an Italian citizen who was born a Muslim, to a Japanese mother and an Italian father. He is member of the Italian Minister of the Interior's Council on Islam in Italy. In 1997 he was made a member of the Italian National Committee for Intercultural Education of the Ministry for Education, Universities and Research and, in the same year he also became a member of the Committee for the Heritage and Memory of Mediterranean Culture, created by the Ministry for Cultural and Environmental Assets. ISESCO, the Islamic Organization for Education, Science and Culture, appointed him to the board of governors of the Supreme Council for Education in the West and the EIC (European Islamic Conference), the first Islamic NGO recognized by the European Union, and conferred on him the function of ambassador for relations with the Vatican and then made him responsible for international relations. In 1998 he was invited by the Muslim World League to form part of the delegation of Italian Muslims participating in the pilgrimage to Mecca. At present he is vice-president of the CO.RE.IS. (Comunità Religiosa Islamica) Italiana. Imam Pallavicini is the imam of the al-Wahid Mosque of Milan in Via Meda, where he coordinates the training of imams in Italian. In 2000 he became a member of the board of the governors of the Islamic Cultural Centre of the Rome Mosque and inn 2003 he participated in the first Congress of the Imams of Europe. In 2004 Il Saggiatore published his book UL'Islam in Europa, Riflessioni di un imam italianoU (Islam in Europe. The reflections of an Italian imam), with forewords by the Italian Minister for European Community Policy, Rocco Buttiglione, and the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, Amos Luzzatto. In September of the same year he was received at the Quirinale, Italy's Presidential Palace, by the president of the Italian Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, and subsequently by the President of the Italian Senate, Senator Marcello Pera, as a member of the delegation of Italian Muslims who were signatories of the Manifesto contro il terrorismo e per la vita (Manifesto against terrorism and for life). In January 2005 he participated in the First World Congress of Rabbis and Imams for Peace, which took place in Brussels under the royal patronage of the King of Belgium, H.M. Albert II, and the King of Morocco, H.M. Mohammed VI. In 2005, Imam Pallavicini .

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