Renato Brunetta

Childhood

Political activity

Career

• Economic adviser for three Italian Prime Ministers, 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.
• 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.
• From 1999 to 2008: Member of the European Parliament.
• Founder and editor of the journal Labour - Review of labour economics and industrial relations, he also wrote for the newspapers Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Giornale, and Avanti!.

  Awards

• 1988 - Saint Vincent Prize - Journalism
• 1992 - Ezio Tarantelli prize - Best work of labor economics
• 1994 - Prize Scanno - Best work of industrial relations
• 2002 - International Prize Rudolph Valentino - Economy, finance and communication