Gianfranco Facco-Bonetti  Gianfranco Facco-Bonetti (born 1940 in Galeata, Italy) is an Italian diplomat and is the current Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the Russian Federation. Facco-Bonetti was the Ambassador of Italy to Russia from 2001 until 2006. He returned to Moscow in 2008, when he was appointed as Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to Russia, presenting his Letter of Credence to then-President of Russia Vladimir Putin on 22 April 2008. Facco-Bonetti is currently the president of the United World College of the Adriatic.