Renzo Bonn

Renzo Bonn is a psychiatrist. Retired from 2020. He worked (1982 – 1999) in Men-tal Health Services in Trieste (Italy), in the last years as Director of a 24 hours Mental Health Centre. From 2000 till 2020 he worked in the Udine Mental Health Services as Director of a 24 hours M.H.C, in the last years as Mental Health Department Di-rector. He had a 15 years’ experience in the Juvenile Court in Trieste as expert judge. He had many experiences during the war in former Yugoslavia: in 1993 for six months as project manager for an EU humanitarian project in the Bosnian area of Brcko; from 1994 as WHO Mental Health consultant.; from 1994 to 2000 he was in-volved in many short missions (training and needs assessment) in different areas (Mostar, Vukovar, Kotor, Beograd, Kosovo and Albania) an in 1998 for one year was project manager for a WHO project targeted in the implementation of 9 community Based Mental Health Services in BiH (Federation and Republika Srpska); as WHO consultant in the period 2001 – 2008 he was involved in several short missions in OPT (Jerusalem, Gaza, Hebron, Bethlehem, Tulkarem, Ramallah) for needs assess-ment and (mainly) for training of MH workers.