Romano Prodi is an Italian politician who served as President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004 and twice as Prime Minister of Italy,from 1996 to 1998,and again 2006 to 2008. Prodi is considered the founder of the Italian centre-left and one of the most prominent and iconic figures of the Second Republic. He is often nicknamed Il Professore due to his academic career.
Mario Mauro is an Italian politician and a university teacher of history. He is the former Minister of Defense,having served in the Letta Cabinet from 2013 to 2014. From 1999 to 2013,he was a member of the European Parliament,and he is a member of the Italian movement Communion and Liberation.
Enrico Letta is an Italian politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy from April 2013 to February 2014,leading a grand coalition of centre-left and centre-right parties. He was the leader of the Democratic Party (PD) from March 2021 to March 2023.
The Carlo Cattaneo University is a proprietary,for-profit university located in Castellanza,Italy.
Frank Moulaert is Professor of Spatial Planning at the Department of Architecture,Urban Design and Regional Planning at Catholic University of Leuven. He is Director of the Urban and Regional Planning Research Group and chairs the Leuven Space and Society Research Centre at the University. He is also a Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture,Planning and Landscape,Newcastle University.
Enrico Giovannini is an Italian economist,statistician and academic,member of the Club of Rome. Since February 2021,he has been serving as Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility in the Draghi Government. From April 2013 to February 2014,he served as Minister of Labour and Social Policies in the Letta Government. From 2009 to 2013,he held the office of President of the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat).
Ilvo Diamanti is an Italian political scientist.
Donatella della Porta is an Italian sociologist and political scientist,who is Professor of political science and political sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore. She is known for her research in the areas of social movements,corruption,political violence,police and policies of public order. In 2022,she was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Matteo Renzi is an Italian politician who served as prime minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016. He has been a senator for Florence since 2018. Renzi has served as the leader of Italia Viva (IV) since 2019,having been the secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) from 2013 to 2018,with a brief interruption in 2017.
Carlo Carraro is the chancellor of the University of Venice for the three-year period 2009–2012,with a two-year extension of his mandate in accordance to the Gelmini University Law bringing it up to summer 2014. He is also professor of environmental economics at the same university. He is director of the Sustainable Development Programme of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and director of the Climate Impacts and Policy Division of the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC). In 2008,Carraro was elected vice-chair of the Working Group III and member of the bureau of the Nobel Laureate Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Paolo Savona is an Italian economist,professor,and politician. He was the Italian Minister of European Affairs from 1 June 2018 until 8 March 2019,his second stint in government after 1993–1994. During the 2010s,Savona became one of the most fervent Eurosceptic economists in Italy.
Fabrizio Barca is an Italian senior civil servant and politician,who served as a state minister without portfolio for territorial cohesion in the Monti cabinet from 2011 to 2013.
The Letta government was the 62nd government of the Italian Republic. In office from 28 April 2013 to 22 January 2014,it comprised ministers of the Democratic Party (PD),The People of Freedom (PdL),Civic Choice (SC),the Union of the Centre (UdC),one of the Italian Radicals (RI) and three non-party independents.
Gino Giugni was an Italian academic and politician. He served as the minister of labor and social security in the period 1993–1994.
Sergio Fabbrini is an Italian political scientist. He is Head of the Department of Political Science and Professor of Political science and International relations at Libera UniversitàInternazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in Rome,where he holds the Intesa Sanpaolo Chair on European Governance. He had also the Pierre Keller Visiting Professorship Chair at the Harvard University,Kennedy School of Government (2019/2020). He is the co-founder and former Director of the LUISS School of Government He is also recurrent professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
Claudio De Vincenti is an Italian politician,economist and university professor.
Francesco Boccia is an Italian academic and politician of the Democratic Party (PD) who served as Minister of Regional Affairs and Autonomies in the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.
Carlo Dell'Aringa was an Italian economist and politician.
Action is a liberal political party in Italy. Its leader is Carlo Calenda,a member of the European Parliament within the group of Renew Europe and former minister of Economic Development.
In the Italian government,ministers without portfolio are nominated by the President of the Council of Ministers and formally appointed by the President of the Republic to lead particular departments directly under the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Unlike the office of State Undersecretary to the Presidency,who fulfils duties in the Prime Minister's remit,ministers without portfolio enjoy the full status of ministers but do not lead an independent ministry. Departments on equalities,European affairs,and relations with regions,for example,are usually led by ministers without portfolio.
