This is a list of Italian Ministers of Public Education since the birth of the Italian Republic in 1946. The list shows also the ministers that served under the same office but with other names,in fact this Ministry has changed name many times. The Minister of Public Education leads the Ministry of Education,Universities and Research.
Sergio Mattarella is an Italian politician,jurist,academic,and lawyer who has been President of Italy since 2015. He is the longest-serving president in the history of the Italian Republic. Since Giorgio Napolitano's death in 2023,Mattarella has been the only living Italian president.
Ignazio Benito Maria La Russa is an Italian politician who is serving as president of the Senate of the Republic since 13 October 2022. He is the first politician with a neo-fascist background to hold the position of President of the Senate,the second highest-ranking office of the Italian Republic.
The Ministry of Education,University and Research is the ministry of the Italian government for the national education system,the Italian universities and research agencies. The current Italian Minister of Public Education is Giuseppe Valditara and the Italian Minister of University and Research is Anna Maria Bernini.
Giorgia Meloni is an Italian politician who has been serving as the prime minister of Italy since October 2022,the first woman to hold this position. A member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2006,she has led the Brothers of Italy (FdI) political party since 2014,and she has been the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party since 2020.
Lorenzo Fontana is an Italian politician and member of the League (Lega),who is serving as President of the Chamber of Deputies since 14 October 2022.
Brothers of Italy is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Italy,the country's largest after the 2022 Italian general election. The party is led by Giorgia Meloni,the incumbent Prime Minister of Italy. According to observers,Meloni's has been the "most right-wing" republican government,thus since World War II.
Luigi Berlinguer was an Italian jurist and politician. He was a professor at the University of Siena,and also served as the minister of university and research and the minister of education.
Andrea Orlando is an Italian politician who served as minister of labour and social policies from 2021 to 2022 in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Mario Draghi. From 2013 to 2018 he served as minister of the environment under Enrico Letta and as minister of justice under Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni from 2014 to 2018. He served as deputy secretary of the Democratic Party between 2019 and 2021.
Guido Crosetto is an Italian businessman and politician,who has been serving as Minister of Defence since 22 October 2022 in the government of Giorgia Meloni.
Carlo Calenda is an Italian business executive and politician. On 2 May 2013,he was appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development in the government of Enrico Letta,and was later confirmed in that post in the cabinet of Letta's successor,Matteo Renzi.
The 2022 Italian general election was a snap election held in Italy on 25 September 2022. After the fall of the Draghi government,which led to a parliamentary impasse,President Sergio Mattarella dissolved Parliament on 21 July,and called for new elections. Regional elections in Sicily were held on the same day. The results of the general election showed the centre-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy,a radical-right political party with neo-fascist roots,winning an absolute majority of seats in the Italian Parliament. Meloni was appointed Prime Minister of Italy on 22 October,becoming the first woman to hold the office.
Giuseppe Conte is an Italian jurist,academic,and politician who served as prime minister of Italy from June 2018 to February 2021. He has been the president of the Five Star Movement (M5S) since August 2021.
Lega,whose official name is Lega per Salvini Premier,is a right-wing populist political party in Italy,led by Matteo Salvini. The LSP is the informal successor of Lega Nord.
Carlo Nordio is an Italian politician,former magistrate and prosecutor,who is serving as Italian Minister of Justice since 22 October 2022,in Giorgia Meloni's government. In the 2022 Italian presidential election he was the candidate of Brothers of Italy for President of Italy. In the 2022 Italian general election he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies.
Luca Ciriani is an Italian politician who is the group leader of the Brothers of Italy grouping in the Senate of the Republic.
In the 2022 Italian general election,the centre-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy (FdI) won an absolute majority of seats in the Italian Parliament. On 20 October,a few days following the elections of the presidents of the two houses of Parliament,Ignazio La Russa of FdI on 13 October for the Senate of the Republic,and Lorenzo Fontana of the League on 14 October for the Chamber of Deputies,consultations on the formation of a new cabinet officially began.
The Meloni government is the 68th government of the Italian Republic,the first headed by Giorgia Meloni,leader of Brothers of Italy,who is also the first woman to hold the office of Prime Minister of Italy. The government was sworn in on 22 October 2022. It was one of the fastest government formations in the history of the Italian Republic. It was variously described as a shift to the political right,as well as the first far-right-led coalition in Italy since World War II.
Matteo Piantedosi is an Italian prefect and civil servant serving as the minister of the interior in the Meloni Cabinet since 22 October 2022. An independent politician,he is close to Lega leader Matteo Salvini.
Eugenia Maria Roccella is an Italian journalist and politician,who has been serving as Minister for Family,Natality and Equal Opportunities in the Meloni Cabinet since 22 October 2022. She is a member of Brothers of Italy (FdI),the party led by the prime minister of Italy,Giorgia Meloni.
