Franco Frattini

Franco Frattini


Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 8 May 2008 – 16 November 2011
Prime Minister	Silvio Berlusconi
Preceded by	Massimo D'Alema
Succeeded by	Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata
In office 14 November 2002 – 18 November 2004
Prime Minister	Silvio Berlusconi
Preceded by	Silvio Berlusconi (Acting)
Succeeded by	Gianfranco Fini
European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security
In office 22 November 2004 – 8 May 2008
President	José Manuel Barroso
Preceded by	António Vitorino
Succeeded by	Jacques Barrot
Personal details
Born	(1957-03-14) 14 March 1957 (age 59) Rome, Italy
Political party	Socialist Party (Before 1994) Forza Italia (1994–2008) People of Freedom (2009–2012) Independent (2012–present)

Franco Frattini (born 14 March 1957 in Rome) is an Italian politician. A junior minister from 1994 to 1996 in the Berlusconi I and Dini cabinets, he later served as foreign minister in the Berlusconi II and III cabinets (2002-2004). Frattini was nominated Vice President and European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security in the first Barroso Commission (2004-2008), which he left to come back as Italian Foreign minister in the last Berlusconi IV Cabinet (2008-2011). He is currently President of the Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI).

Today Frattini does not adhere to any political party.

Frattini attended the "Giulio Cesare" Classical High School in Rome and graduated in law in 1979.

From 1984 he was State Attorney and magistrate of the Regional Administrative Court (TAR) in Piedmont. In 1986 Frattini was named member of the Italian Council of State and legal adviser of the Treasury Ministry.

In 1990 and 1991 he worked as a legal adviser to the deputy chairman of the PSI, Claudio Martelli, in the Andreotti VI Cabinet.