Giovanna Melandri

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Giovanna Melandri (2007)

Giovanna Melandri (born January 28, 1962 in New York ) is an Italian politician ( (P) DS , PD ) and cultural manager. She was Minister of Culture 1998–2001 and Minister for Youth and Sport 2006–08. Since 2012 she has been the foundation president of the MAXXI Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome .

Life

Giovanna Melandri is the older sister of the writer Francesca Melandri and a cousin of the television journalist Giovanni Minoli . She graduated from La Sapienza University in Rome with a degree in economics . She then worked for the chemical and energy company Montedison from 1983 to 1987 . Then she got involved in the environmental organization Legambiente . She headed their international office and was a member of the national secretariat. From 1988 to 1993 she was editor of the annual environmental report Ambiente Italia . In 1990 she participated as an Italian representative at the Conference on Sustainable Development in Bergen and in 1992 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro .

From the early 1990s Melandri was also involved in party politics: in 1992 she was elected to the board of the Partito Democratico della Sinistra (PDS; Democratic Left Party). From the parliamentary elections 1994 to 2012 she was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament, where she represented the constituency of Lazio 1. In 1998 the PDS merged into the Democratici di Sinistra (DS; Left Democrats), of which Melandri was in turn a board member.

In the same year she took over the management of the Ministry of Culture, which she led under Prime Ministers D'Alema and Amato until the change of government in 2001. In this position, she supported the Cittàslow movement for decelerated urban development. During her tenure, the construction of the national museum for the art of the 21st century (MAXXI) in Rome began. At that time, the Ministry of Culture was also responsible for sports policy. Melandri implemented a reform of the Italian National Olympic Committee in 1999/2000 - against opposition from both sports officials and the press .

From May 2006 to May 2008 she was minister of youth and sport in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Romano Prodi . In this role she was perceived abroad, particularly in connection with the manipulation scandal in Italian football in 2006 . She called for "new rules" for Italian and European football, but was described in Spiegel Online as "timid". After the merger of the DS with other center-left parties to form the Partito Democratico, she was a board member of this party.

She is also active as the president of an organization against the abuse of artificial insemination methods . In October 2012 she was appointed President of the National Museum for the Arts of the 21st Century (MAXXI). On November 13, 2012, she resigned her parliamentary mandate.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ariane Sept: From Slow Food to Cittaslow . To transfer an innovative idea from nutrition to urban development. In: Jannis Hergesell u. a .: innovation phenomena. Modes and Effects of the Innovation Society. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, pp. 61–79, on p. 73.
  2. ^ Carsten Kluth: Institutional Arrangements and Football Transmission Rights - The Introduction of Pay TV in Germany and Italy. In: Volker von Prittwitz: Institutional arrangements in environmental policy. Sustainability through innovative combinations of processes? Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2000, pp. 203-224, on p. 215.
  3. ^ Judgments in the football scandal: Italy in shock. N-tv, July 15, 2006.
  4. ↑ Vincenzo Delle Donne: Italian football scandal - Il dolce judgment. In: Spiegel Online , October 28, 2006.
  5. ↑ APA: Ex-Minister Melandri takes over the MAXXI , October 18, 2012

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Commons : Giovanna Melandri  - collection of images, videos and audio files
predecessor Office successor
Walter Veltroni Italian Minister for Cultural Goods
October 1998-June 2001 		Giuliano Urbani
personal data
SURNAME Melandri, Giovanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician, member of the Camera dei deputati
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City