| The Honourable Deborah Bergamini |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 29 April 2008 |
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| Constituency | Tuscany |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 24, 1967 Viareggio, Italy |
| Political party | The People of Freedom |
| Profession | Journalist Politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Deborah Bergamini (born 24 October 1967) is an Italian politician and journalist, currently personal assistant of Silvio Berlusconi.[1] She entered the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 2008 as a member of The People of Freedom political movement.
Bergamini was born at Viareggio. A member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, she is also President, since 17 March 2009, of the Council of Europe North-South Centre.
She studied literature and philosophy and went on to study at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, specialising in political marketing. She embarked on a career as a journalist, working for the Florence newspaper La Nazione.[2] In 1996 she moved to Paris to work for the French publisher "Analyzes et Synthèses" and then from 1997 to 1999 she was based in London, working for Bloomberg. It was while at Bloomberg that she interviewed Berlusconi, who subsequently recruited her as his personal assistant.
In 2002, while she was working in Mediaset, RAI hired her to be director of marketing.[3] During her time at RAI she ran a Blog using the name “Cartimandua, Regina dei Celti”. She left RAI in 2007.