Barbara Berlusconi (born 30 July 1984) is an Italian business executive. She is advisor to the board of Fininvest and previously sat on the board of directors of

A.C. Milan Associazione Calcio Milan (), commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is a professional Association football, football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899. The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 ...

as vice-chairman and CEO.

Early life

Barbara Berlusconi was born in Arlesheim,

Basel-Landschaft Basel-Landschaft or Basel-Country informally known as Baselland or Baselbiet (; german: Kanton Basel-Landschaft ; rm, Chantun Basilea-Champagna; french: Canton de Bâle-Campagne; it, Canton Basilea Campagna), is one of the 26 cantons forming ...

canton, Switzerland in the summer of 1984, and is the daughter of

Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi ( ; ; born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies f ...

and

Veronica Lario Veronica Lario (born Miriam Raffaella Bartolini, 19 July 1956) is a former Italian actress and the former wife of ex-Prime Minister of Italy, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Biography Born in Bologna, Lario was a stage actress under Enr ...

(who became his second wife, in 1990). Barbara Berlusconi's godfather was

Bettino Craxi Benedetto "Bettino" Craxi ( , , ; 24 February 1934 – 19 January 2000) was an Italian politician, leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) from 1976 to 1993, and the 45th prime minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987. He was the first PSI membe ...

. She made her formal

debut Debut or début (the first public appearance of a person or thing) may refer to: * Debut (society), the formal introduction of young upper-class women to society * Debut novel, an author's first published novel Film and television * ''The Debu ...

in Paris at the Bal des débutantes in 2001. She has two older half-siblings, Maria Elvira "Marina" (born in 1966) and Pier Silvio (born in 1969), from her father's first marriage. She also has two younger siblings, Eleonora (born in 1986) and Luigi (born in 1988).

Education

Berlusconi completed her primary education at the Steiner school of Milan, in

Città Studi Città Studi (literally, "studies city") is a district ("quartiere") of Milan, Italy, located within the Zone 3 administrative division. Its name comes from the fact that the Politecnico technical university, as well as most technical and scie ...

. Berlusconi then attended secondary school at Collegio Villoresi San Giuseppe of Monza in Italy, and in July 2010, At 26 years old, Berlusconi obtained her bachelor in Philosophy, and gained a

first class degree The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading structure for undergraduate degrees or bachelor's degrees and integrated master's degrees in the United Kingdom. The system has been applied (sometimes with significant variati ...

, with 110/110 cum laude, at the

Vita-Salute San Raffaele University The Vita-Salute San Raffaele University ( it, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele Also known as UniSR) is a private university in Milan, Italy. It was founded in 1996 and is organized in three departments; Medicine, Philosophy and Psychology. ...

, founded and run by Don Verzé until 2011.

Fininvest SpA

Since September 2003, Berlusconi has been member of the board of directors of Fininvest SpA.

A.C. Milan

In April 2011, Berlusconi was given a role on the board of directors at

and since 30 November 2013 one of the CEO of the club.

Personal life

Family

She has two sons, Alessandro (born in 2007) and Edoardo (born in 2009), with former partner Giorgio Valaguzza. Berlusconi resides in Switzerland. She was previously in a relationship with

Alexandre Pato Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva (; born 2 September 1989), commonly known as Alexandre Pato () or just Pato, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a striker. Pato began his career as a youth player for Internacional in 2000, maki ...

from 2011 to 2013. She has two other sons, Leone (born in 2016) and Francesco Amos (born in 2018), with her current partner Lorenzo Guerrieri.

Notes and references

External links

Barbara Berlusconi – profile
at Fininvest SpA {{DEFAULTSORT:Berlusconi, Barbara Swiss mass media people People from Basel-Landschaft Children of national leaders Berlusconi family Living people 1984 births Debutantes of le Bal des débutantes Italian chief executives Swiss Roman Catholics Swiss people of Italian descent 21st-century Italian businesswomen 21st-century Swiss businesswomen A.C. Milan directors