Renato Brunetta

Renato Brunetta
File:Renato Brunetta 2011.jpg
Minister of Public Administration and Innovation
In office 8 May 2008 – 16 November 2011
Prime Minister	Silvio Berlusconi
Preceded by	Luigi Nicolais
Succeeded by	Filippo Patroni Griffi
Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 April 2008
Constituency	Veneto II
Member of the European Parliament for North-East Italy
In office 20 July 2004 – 28 April 2008
In office 20 July 1999 – 19 July 2004
Personal details
Born	(1950-05-15) 15 May 1950 Venice, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Political party	Forza Italia (2013-present)
Other political affiliations	Italian Socialist Party (1983-1994) Forza Italia (1994-2009) The People of Freedom (2009-2013)
Spouse(s)	Titti Giovannoni
Profession	Economist Politician
Website	http://www.renatobrunetta.it/

Renato Brunetta (Venice, May 15, 1950) is an Italian economist and politician and, as of May 2008, a minister in the Berlusconi government.

He served from 2008 to 16 November 2011 the office of the Minister for Public Administration and Innovation.

Childhood

Son of an Hawker and the youngest of three brothers, Renato Brunetta grew up in Venice. He says that as a boy he cultivated his own initiative classical studies with excellent results, despite a social gap should seem to differentiate it from the companions of Liceo Foscarini.

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

• Economic adviser for three Italian Prime Ministers (Craxi, Amato, Ciampi), and a professor of Labour Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
• 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 Ministry of Labour official responsible for all the strategies for employment and incomes policy.
• In 1989 founded the European Association of Labour Economists, of which he is the first chairman.
• In the 1980s and 1990s worked as an economic adviser to the Bettino Craxi, Giuliano Amato, and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi governments.
• From 1999 to 2008: Member of the European Parliament.
• Founder and editor of the journal Labour - Review of labour economics and industrial relations, he also wrote 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 - Prize Scanno - Best work of industrial relations
• 2002 - International Prize Rudolph Valentino - Economy, finance and communication

See also

• European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

External links

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

Notes

Political offices
Preceded by Luigi Nicolais	Italian Minister of Public Administration and Innovation 2008 – 2011	Succeeded by Filippo Patroni Griffi
Italian Chamber of Deputies
Preceded by Title jointly held	Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies Legislatures: XVI 2008 – present	Incumbent