Anna Ascani

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Anna Ascani (approx. 2018)

Anna Ascani (born October 17, 1987 in Città di Castello , Province of Perugia ) is an Italian politician ( PD ). She has been State Secretary in the Ministry of Education since September 2019 .

Life and political career

Ascani is the daughter of a former local politician from the Democrazia Cristiana . She completed a philosophy degree at the universities of Perugia (graduation 2009) and Trento (Magister 2012), each of which she graduated with maximum number of points and distinction. In 2016 she started a doctoral degree in political theory at the private university LUISS in Rome, which she interrupted during her tenure as State Secretary.

Ascani ran (unsuccessfully) for the municipal council of her hometown at the age of 18. In 2007 she joined the newly founded Partito Democratico . She supported the defeated Enrico Letta in the primary election of the first party leader , but was elected to the regional party executive in Umbria. From 2011 to 2013 she was the spokeswoman for the Umbrian PD regional association. In the 2013 parliamentary elections , she was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies via the PD list in Umbria . At 25, she was one of the youngest MPs. She was a member of the Committee on Culture, Science and Education and Italian delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . From October 2016 she was also a member of the study commission on digitization and innovation in public administration. In 2016, Forbes magazine ranked her among the 30 Under 30 most influential young politicians in Europe. From 2017 to 2018 she was responsible for the cultural department on the PD party executive committee.

As the top candidate of her party in Umbria, she was re-elected as a MP in 2018 . In September 2018, she took part as the Italian representative in a round table of “prospective leaders” organized by the Obama Foundation . Within the PD, Ascani was one of the supporters of Matteo Renzi (“Renziani”) . In the primary election of the party leader in March 2019, she supported the candidacy of Roberto Giachetti , who wanted to make her his deputy, but was defeated by Nicola Zingaretti . Instead, Ascani was elected to the more representative office of vice-president of the party. In April 2019, Giachetti and Ascani founded the SempreAvanti Foundation as an internal party organization of the Renziani . While Renzi and Giachetti left the PD five months later and founded the Italia Viva party , Ascani remained in the PD.

As a result of the coalition of PD and Movimento 5 Stelle (five-star movement), which was concluded in September 2019 , she was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research in the Conte II cabinet. She got the title of "Vice Minister". After the resignation of Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti , the ministry was split up in January 2020, and since then Ascani has been assigned to the Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina , as State Secretary and Deputy Minister .

Publications

  • Accountability. La virtù della politica democratica. Città Nuova, Rome 2014.
  • Senza Maestri. Storie di una generazione fragile. Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (CZ) 2019. Foreword by Matteo Renzi .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Curriculum Vitae Ascani Anna (PDF; 59 kB), Ministero dell'Istruzione. Retrieved June 14, 2020 (Italian)
  2. ^ Anna Ascani , Camera dei deputati, Portale Storico. Retrieved June 14, 2020 (Italian)
  3. ^ Nathania Zevi: Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe: Policy . Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  4. ^ Get to know the leaders who joined President Obama for a conversation in Amsterdam. Obama Foundation, September 29, 2018. Retrieved June 14, 2020. (English)
  5. ^ Anna Ascani e Roberto Giachetti si candidano alle primarie del PD. IlPost, December 12, 2018. Retrieved June 14, 2020. (Italian)
  6. ^ Paolo Padoin: Pd: nasce SempreAvanti, area renziana di Roberto Giachetti e Anna Ascani. In: Firenze Post , April 12, 2019. Retrieved June 14, 2020. (Italian)
  7. ↑ ASCANI Anna - PD , Scheda deputato, Camera dei deputati. Retrieved June 14, 2020 (Italian)
personal data
SURNAME Ascani, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Città di Castello , Province of Perugia