Roberto Gualtieri
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Roberto Gualtieri MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament for Central Italy |
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Assumed office 14 July 2009 |
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19 July 1966 Rome |
| Nationality | Italian |
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 Italian:Democratic Party  EU:Party of European Socialists |
| Occupation | Politician |
Roberto Gualtieri (born 19 July 1966), is an Italian socialist politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. He was elected Chair of the influential Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Committee within the Parliament in 2014. He is a philosophy and literature graduate and holds a PhD in contemporary history (1997). He has authored several books and articles on twentieth century Italian history and on the history of the European integration and is an associate professor of contemporary history at 'La Sapienza' University, Rome.
Since 2001, Gualtieri has been Deputy Director of the Gramsci Institute Foundation.
In 2006, Gualtieri was among the founders of the Partito Democratico (Congress of Orvieto, October 2006) and he was among the "wise men" who wrote its Manifesto. In 2007 was elected to the National Assembly of the party and since 2008 he has been member of its National board, where he has been confirmed in 2014. Gualtieri voted against party leader Matteo Renzi in favour of post-communists both in 2013 and 2014 (the year Renzi won the leadership ballot).
From 2008 to 2011, Gualtieri served as director (with José Luis Rhi-Sausi) of the "Annual Report on European Integration" (published by Il Mulino). Since 2009, he is member of the editorial committee of the Foundation "Italianieuropei" .
In 2009, Gualtieri was appointed S&D Group coordinator for the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) and standing rapporteur for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) budget in the Committee on Budgets (BUDG). He has been also full member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) and substitute of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET). In 2010, he was appointed S&D Group negotiator within the EP negotiating team (with Elmar Brok and Guy Verhofstadt) on the creation of the European External Action Service. In addition to his committee assignments, he was part of the parliament's delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly between 2009 and 2014.
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