Renato Brunetta

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Renato Brunetta (Venice, May 26, 1950) is an Italian economist and politician.

He is a 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.

[edit] See also

• European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

[edit] External links

• Official website of Renato Brunetta: www.renatobrunetta.it
• European Parliament biography of Renato Brunetta (incl. Speeches, Questions and Motions)
• Declaration of financial interests (in Italian; PDF)