Stefano Di Pieri
Role
Stefano migrated to Australia in 1974 from Italy, before attending Sydney Road Community School and completing a Politics degree at Melbourne University.
He worked as a ministerial advisor in the State government for some years prior to coming to Mildura in 1991. He established Stefano’s Restaurant and published a book (Gondola on the Murray) which became a TV series. He also helped establish Arts Mildura, La Trobe University and the Australian Alternative Varieties Wine Show.
Stefano is currently the Patron of the Melbourne-based Institute of Post Colonial Studies, looking among other things at the future of food and regional economies. He is also on the Committee for the Mildura Writers Festival, the Alternative Varieties Wine Show and was previously a member of the Mildura Regional Development Board and is a member of the Mildura Rural City Council and is responsible Economic Development portfolio.
