Renato Brunetta

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Renato Brunetta : biography

26 May 1950 –

Renato Brunetta (Venice, May 26, 1950) is an Italian economist and politician and, as of May 2008, a minister in the Berlusconi government.

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!.