Letizia Moratti

Letizia Brichetto-Arnaboldi Moratti (born 26 November 1949) is an Italian businesswoman and politician. She is the former mayor of Milan.

Biography

Moratti was born Letizia Brichetto-Arnaboldi in Milan. She is married to the oil magnate Gianmarco Moratti (brother of Massimo Moratti) and has two children, Gabriele and Giada. She is the granddaughter of Mimina Brichetto Arnaboldi, an intellectual society lady who hosted an important salon in Milan in the years before the Second World War, and who was also an ardent anti-fascist.

She is a businesswoman who has worked in insurance and telecommunications. Between 1994 and 1996 she was president of the Italian state television company RAI. In 1999-2000 she was responsible for the growth of Rupert Murdoch's group in Europe.

From 2001 to 2006 she was Education Minister in the second and third Berlusconi cabinet. During her administration criticized reforms of the Italian school system and university teaching was passed.

She ran as a candidate for Mayor of Milan in the 2006 municipal election as the House of Freedoms candidate. She won the election, with over 52% of votes.^[1] She ran again in the 2011 municipal election, facing the left-wing candidate Giuliano Pisapia, but lost both first and second round and failed to be re-elected.

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