Antonio Misiani (born 4 September 1968) is an

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politician. He has been Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance in the

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Early life and education

Misiani was born 4 September 1968 in

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, Italy, and raised there. He graduated from the “Paolo Sarpi” high school. He attended Luigi Bocconi University in

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, where he graduated with a degree in

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Political career

Misiani's political interests started in the early 1990s when he became active in the Left Youth and the

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. In the institutions he was elected municipal councillor in

in 1995 (playing the role of vice president of the budget commission) and provincial councillor in 1999 and 2004 (member of the budget commission). As a member of the Federal Committee and the Provincial Secretariat of the

(1997 – 1998) he was coordinator of the forum of the Bergamo left. Between 2000 and 2004 Misiani was part of the regional secretariat of the

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. On 14 April 2004 Misiani was elected provincial-secretary of the Bergamo Left Democrats, a position he held until December 2004. From July 2004 to August 2006 Misiani was

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of the Municipality of Bergamo in the Giunta led by Roberto Bruni, dealing with budget, decentralization, subsidiaries, communication, security, heritage, cemetery services. In the 2006 general elections, Misiani was elected into the

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, on the L'Ulivo lists in the Lombardy 2 constituency. In the Legislature XV of Italy he was a member of the V Budget, Treasury and Planning Commission, of the bicameral commissions for the Simplification of Legislation and the Implementation of Fiscal Federalism. He joined the

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in 2007. In the primaries of October 14, 2007, he was elected a member of the National Constituent Assembly of the

. In the 2008 elections he was re-elected deputy on the Democratic Party lists for the same constituency. During the

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he was again a member of the V Budget, Treasury and Planning Commission and of the bicameral Commission for the Simplification of Legislation. Misiani collaborated with the ''Nens'' Association ''(New Economy, New Company)'' founded by

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and

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. During the 2013 elections, he was re-elected deputy. In the 2017 PD congress he sided in support of

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. On 7 May 2017 Misiani was elected a member of the National Directorate of the PD.

Election as senator

In the 2018 political elections he was elected

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, on the Democratic Party lists in the

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district. In the Senate Misiani is the leader of the PD in the Budget Commission. On 13 September 2019, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance.

Personal life

Misiani is married to Maria Ines and has two children.

Author

In 2017, Misiani, along with Stefano Imbruglia and

Paola De Micheli Paola De Micheli (born 1 September 1973) is an Italian manager and politician of the Democratic Party (Italy), Democratic Party (PD), who served as Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport in the ...

, wrote the book "''Se Chiudi ti Compro. Le Imprese Rigenerate dai Lavoratori''", and published with a preface penned by

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References

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