Renato Brunetta

Renato Brunetta

Renato Brunetta (born on 26 May 1950 in Venice) is an Italian economist and politician, former member of the Italian Socialist Party, currently a Member of the European Parliament for the North-East 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. He is a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, as well as substitute for the Delegation to the European Union-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.

[edit] Career

The Italian Prime Minister's economic adviser, 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.
Since 1999: Member of the European Parliament.
Founder and editor of the journal Labour - Review of labour economics and industrial relations, he was also the lead writer for the newspapers Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Giornale, and Avanti!.
He is the author of numerous publications on labour economics and industrial relations.