Roberta Pinotti
| Roberta Pinotti | |
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| Minister of Defence | |
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Assumed office 22 February 2014 |
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| Prime Minister |
Matteo Renzi Paolo Gentiloni |
| Preceded by | Mario Mauro |
| Undersecretary of State for Defence | |
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In office 28 April 2013 – 22 February 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Enrico Letta |
| Preceded by | Filippo Milone |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
| Member of the Senate | |
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Assumed office 29 April 2008 |
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| Constituency | Liguria |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 30 May 2001 – 28 April 2008 |
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| Constituency | Liguria |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
20 May 1961 Genoa, Italy |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
Roberta Pinotti (born 20 May 1961) is an Italian politician. Since 22 February 2014 she has been the Italian Minister of Defence.
Born in Genoa, Pinotti holds a degree in modern literature and is a teacher of Italian in high schools. She began her political career at the end of the 1980s as a district counselor of Italian Communist Party. She later joined the Democratic Party of the Left, the Democratici di Sinistra party (in which she held the position of provincial secretary between 1999 and 2001) and the Democratic Party. In her hometown she has served as councilor for school, youth policies and social policies (1993-1997) and for educational institutions (1997-1999).
First elected deputy in 2001, Pinotti was the shadow minister of defense in the Shadow Cabinet of Walter Veltroni between May 2008 and April 2009. In 2013 she was appointed undersecretary of state (sottosegretario di stato) in the Ministry of Defence in the Letta Cabinet, and then, on 21 February 2014, she was appointed as Minister of Defence. She received the America Award of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2014.
In October 2014 she visited the United Arab Emirates and met with Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in order to strengthen the bilateral relations with regards to the Defense. In February 2015 she returned to the United Arab Emirates in occasion of the International Defence Industry Exhibition (IDEX), attended by several Italian companies, and met again with Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
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