Italian economist and politician

Renato Brunetta (born 15 May 1950 in Venice) is an Italian economist and politician who was minister for public administration and innovation from May 2008 to November 2011 in the Berlusconi government. He is currently the head of Forza Italia's group of deputies in the Chamber of Deputies. He is currently serving as minister of Public Administration in the Draghi government.

Contents

• 1 Early life and career
• 2 Political activity
• 3 Career
• 4 Awards
• 5 See also
• 6 External links
• 7 Notes

Early life and career

Brunetta was born in Venice in 1950, the youngest of three brothers. He grew up in a poor family, his father was a peddler. He attended the cl*ical lyceum Foscarini. Brunetta once said, that as a boy he often studied cl*ics on his own, to reduce the social gap between him and his fellow students.

On 2 July 1973, he graduated in political and economic sciences at the University of Padua. He began his academic career at the same university holding various positions: from 1973 to 1974 he was *istant professor theory and development policy and applied economics. In the academic year 1977–78, he became professor of economics and labour policy. From 1982 to 1990, he was *ociate professor of fundamentals of economics at the Department of Economic and Social *ysis of the Territory at the Iuav University of Venice. From 1991 to 1999, he was *ociate professor of labor economics at University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he also held the position of professor of political economy until 2009.

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 founder and editor of the magazine Labur – 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 of Il Riformista, a centrist and liberal newspaper directed by Piero Sansonetti, which he left in October 2020.

Political activity

He is a former member of the Italian Socialist Party, Member of the European Parliament for the North-East from 2004 to 2009 with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party, and vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.

Career

• Formerly a 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, 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 *ociation of Labour Economists, of which he is the first chairman.
• From 1999 to 2008 he was Member of the European Parliament.
• Founder and editor of the journal Labour - Review of labour economics and industrial relations, he has also written for the newspapers Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Giornale, and Avanti!.

Awards

• 1988 - Saint Vincent Prize - Journalism
• 1992 - Ezio Tarantelli prize - Best work of labor economics
• 1994 - Scanno Prize - Best work of industrial relations
• 2002 - Rudolph Valentino International Prize - Economy, finance and communication

See also

• 2004 European Parliament election in Italy

External links

• Personal profile of Renato Brunetta in the European Parliament's database of members
• Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in Italian)

Notes