Lara Comi | |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Garbagnate Milanese, Italy |
18 February 1983
Political party | Forza Italia, The People of Freedom |
Alma mater | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi |
Lara Comi (born 18 February 1983) is an Italian Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Comi received a bachelor's degree in economics in 2005 from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. In 2007 she earned a master's in economics from Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, also in Milan.
She held internships at the Uruguayan consulate in Italy and Beiersdorf Italy, and was a brand manager for Giochi Preziosi.
She was a spokeswoman for Forza Italia in Saronno from 2002 to 2005, was an assistant to Mariastella Gelmini, and in 2004 was youth coordinator for Forza Italia in Lombardy. In the Italian general election of 2008 she unsuccessfully ran for the Chamber of Deputies in Lombardy. In the 2009 European election she was returned as MEP for North-West Italy for the People of Freedom (Il Popolo della Libertà) with 63,158 votes.
In the seventh European Parliament she was a member of the delegations for relations with Afghanistan (2009–10) and Latin America (2010–14), the delegation to the EU–Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2010–14), and the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (2012–14).