Antonio Martino

Antonio Martino
Minister of Defence
In office 11 June 2001 – 17 May 2006
Prime Minister	Silvio Berlusconi
Preceded by	Sergio Mattarella
Succeeded by	Arturo Parisi
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 10 May 1994 – 17 January 1995
Prime Minister	Silvio Berlusconi
Preceded by	Leopoldo Elia
Succeeded by	Susanna Agnelli
Personal details
Born	(1942-12-22) 22 December 1942 Messina, Italy
Political party	Liberal Party (Before 1994) Forza Italia (1994–2009) People of Freedom (2009–2013) Forza Italia (2013–present)
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Antonio Martino (born December 22, 1942) is an Italian politician, who was the minister of foreign affairs in 1994 and minister of defense from 2001 to 2006. He is a founding member of Forza Italia.

Career

Born in Messina, he is the son of Gaetano Martino, former Foreign Minister and prominent member of the late Italian Liberal Party (PLI). In mid-the 1980s he was unsuccessful candidate for the post of PLI secretary. A member of the Italian Parliament, he was first elected in 1994, re-elected in 1996 and 2001.

Since 1992 and for many years, Martino has been a professor of Economics in the Political Science Department at the LUISS University of Rome (currently on Parliamentary leave). He is author of 11 books and over 150 papers and articles on economic theory and policy. He has been a frequent contributor to Italian and international magazines and newspapers (Il Giornale, for example), as well as Italian and international television and radio programs.

In 1988-90, Martino was President of the Mont Pelerin Society, an international society of classical liberals, founded in 1947 by Nobel Prize Winner Friedrich A. Hayek. In the Nineties, he wrote a book in Italian language, Stato Padrone, where he explains his free-market ideas.

He was minister of Foreign Affairs in the first Berlusconi cabinet (1994–95) and minister of Defense when Berlusconi came back to power (2001-2006).

He is Secretary of the Scientific Committee of the Italy-USA Foundation.

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External links

• Antonio Martino bio at History Commons

A. Martino, Stato Padrone, Sperling&Kupfer, Milan 1997.

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Berlusconi I Cabinet (1994–1995) Berlusconi Tatarella Maroni Comino Guidi Urbani Berlinguer Ferrara Speroni Martino Biondi Pagliarini Tremonti Dini Previti D'Onofrio Radice Poli Bortone Fiori Gnutti Costa Bernini Mastella Fisichella Matteoli Podestà

Berlusconi II Cabinet (2001–2005) Berlusconi Fini Follini La Loggia Pisanu Scajola Frattini Mazzella Baccini Stanca Tremaglia Prestigiacomo Buttiglione Bossi Calderoli Giovanardi Ruggiero Castelli Tremonti Siniscalco Marzano Moratti Maroni Martino Alemanno Lunardi Sirchia Urbani Gasparri Matteoli

Berlusconi III Cabinet (2005–2006) Berlusconi Fini Tremonti La Loggia Caldoro Baccini Stanca Tremaglia Prestigiacomo La Malfa Calderoli Giovanardi Micciché Pisanu Castelli Siniscalco Scajola Moratti Maroni Martino Alemanno Matteoli Lunardi Storace Buttiglione Landolfi