Renato Brunetta (born 15 May 1950) is an Italian

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and

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. He was the

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and Innovation from 8 May 2008 to 16 November 2011 in the

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 ...

government, and he is, once again, the minister for Public Administration in the Draghi government, since 13 February 2021. He was the head of Forza Italia's deputies group at the

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from 2013 to 2018.

Early life and career

Renato Brunetta was born on 15 May 1950, in

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, Italy, the youngest of three brothers. He grew up in a poor family and his father was a

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. He attended the

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Foscarini. Brunetta once said that as a boy, he often studied classics on his own, to reduce the social gap between him and his fellow students. On 2 July 1973, he graduated in political and

economic sciences Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

at the

University of Padua The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from B ...

. He began his academic career at the same university holding various positions: from 1973 to 1974 he was an assistant professor of theory and development policy and applied economics. In the academic year 1977–78, he became professor of economics and labor policy. From 1982 to 1990, he was an associate professor of fundamentals of economics at the Department of Economic and Social Analysis of the Territory at the Iuav University of Venice. From 1991 to 1999, he was associate professor of labor economics at

University of Rome Tor Vergata Tor Vergata University of Rome, also known as the University of Rome II ( it, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"), is a public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. Located in the southeastern suburb of Rome, the ...

, where he also held the position of professor of the political economy until 2009. Since 1976, Brunetta has been enrolled as a freelance

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in the Order of Journalists of

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. He is a columnist of '' Il Sole 24 Ore'' and ''

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''. Moreover, he is founder and editor of the magazine ''Labor – Reviews of labor economics and industrial relations'', published by

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for the Center for Economic and International Studies (CEIS) of the Tor Vergata University. Together with

Vittorio Feltri Vittorio Feltri ( Bergamo, born 25 June 1943) is an Italian journalist and editor in chief of daily ''Libero''. Biography Feltri was born in Bergamo, Italy. He graduated with a degree in Political Science and then started his career as journa ...

, he wrote a series of Manuals of Political Conversation published by '' Libero''. In June 2020, he briefly became a columnist of ''Il Riformista'', a centrist and liberal newspaper directed by Piero Sansonetti, which he left in October 2020.Perché lascio la direzione del Riformista Economia
''Il Riformista''

Political activity

He is a former member of the

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for the

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from 2004 to

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with the

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, part of the

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, and vice-chair of the

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Career

* He a former professor of Labour Economics at the

. * In the 1980s and 1990s he was an economics adviser to the governments of

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 ...

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, and

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. * From 1985 to 1989, he was the vice-chairman of the Labour and Social Affairs Committee of the

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(in

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). * From 1983 to 1987 he was an official of the

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with overall responsibility for

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strategy and

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. * In 1989 he founded the European Association of Labour Economists, of which he is the first chairman. * From 1999 to 2008 he was a member of the

. * He is the founder and editor of the journal ''Labour - Review of labour economics and industrial relations.'' He has also written for the newspapers '' Il Sole 24 Ore'', ''

'', and ''

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''.

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Early life and career

Political activity

Career

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