Renato Brunetta
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Renato Brunetta | |
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Minister of Public Administration | |
In office 13 February 2021 – 22 October 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Mario Draghi |
Preceded by | Fabiana Dadone |
Succeeded by | Paolo Zangrillo |
In office 8 May 2008 – 16 November 2011 | |
Prime Minister | Silvio Berlusconi |
Preceded by | Luigi Nicolais |
Succeeded by | Filippo Patroni Griffi |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 23 April 2008 – 13 October 2022 | |
Constituency | Veneto |
Member of the European Parliament for North-East Italy | |
In office 20 July 1999 – 28 April 2008 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Venice, Italy | 15 May 1950
Political party | PSI (1983–1994) FI (1994–2009) PdL (2009–2013) FI (2013–2022) |
Spouse | Titti Giovannoni |
Alma mater | University of Padua |
Profession | Economist Politician |
Renato Brunetta (born 15 May 1950) is an Italian
Early life and career
Renato Brunetta was born on 15 May 1950, in Venice, Italy, the youngest of three brothers. He grew up in a poor family and his father was a peddler.[1] He attended the classical lyceum Foscarini. Brunetta once said that as a boy, he often studied classics on his own, to "reduce the social gap between him and his fellow students".[2]
On 2 July 1973, he graduated in Political and
From 1991 to 1999, he was Associate Professor of Labour Economics at University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he also held the position of Professor of Political Economy until 2009.[3]
Since 1976, Brunetta has been enrolled as a freelance journalist in the Order of Journalists of Veneto. He is a columnist of Il Sole 24 Ore and Il Giornale. Moreover, he is the founder and editor of the magazine Labor – Reviews of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, published by Wiley-Blackwell for the Center for Economic and International Studies (CEIS) of the Tor Vergata University.
Together with Vittorio Feltri, he wrote a series of Manuals of Political Conversation published by Libero. In June 2020, he briefly became a columnist for Il Riformista, a centrist and liberal newspaper directed by Piero Sansonetti, which he left in October 2020.[4]
Political activity
He is a former member of the
Career
- He is a former Professor of Labour Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
- In the 1980s and 1990s he was an economics adviser to the governments of Bettino Craxi, Giuliano Amato, and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
- From 1985 to 1989, he was the Vice-Chairman of the Labour and Social Affairs Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (in Paris).
- From 1983 to 1987 he was an official of the Ministry of Labour with overall responsibility for employment strategy and incomes policy.
- In 1989 he founded the European Association of Labour Economists, of which he is the first chairman.
- From 1999 to 2008 he was a member of the European Parliament.
- He is the founder and editor of the journal Labour - Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations. He has also written for the newspapers Avanti!.
See also
External links
- Personal profile of Renato Brunetta in the European Parliament's database of members
- Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in Italian)
Notes
- ^ Cazzullo, Aldo (June 15, 2008). "Brunetta: io ministro ma vendevo gondolette". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved November 26, 2009.
- ^ Giovanni Floris, La fabbrica degli ignoranti. La disfatta della scuola italiana, Milano, Rizzoli, 2008, p. 170. ISBN 978-88-17-02486-0
- ^ Brunetta: prendo pensione da 3 mila euro, ANSA
- ^ Perché lascio la direzione del Riformista Economia, Il Riformista