Lorenzo Fioramonti

Lorenzo Fioramonti 2018

Lorenzo Fioramonti (born April 29, 1977 in Rome ) is an Italian university professor and politician .

From September 5, 2019 to December 30, 2019, he was Minister for Education, Universities and Research in the Conte II cabinet .

Life

Fioramonti grew up in Rome in the Torre Angela district. He studied philosophy at the Tor Vergata University in Rome and graduated with a laureate . He then completed a doctorate in comparative politics at the University of Siena .

Fioramonti emigrated to South Africa , where in 2012 he was appointed professor of economics at the University of Pretoria and an associate professor at the University of Stellenbosch . He also worked as a Senior Fellow at the University of Heidelberg , at the Hertie School and as an Associate Fellow at the University of the United Nations .

He is the author of more than 60 academic articles and several books and was an associate editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies . A central theme of his work is social inequality .

Fioramonti is married to a German woman and has two children.

Political career

He gained his first political experience between 1997 and 2000 at the nascent Italia dei Valori party of Antonio Di Pietro , for which he worked out youth policy programs in his home in Torre Angela in Rome. In the 2000s he was associated with the education union of the Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro , FLC CGIL .

Before the parliamentary elections in 2018 , Luigi Di Maio proposed him as Minister of the Economy if the five-star movement won the election . Fioramonti, who supports a sustainable economic policy, accepted the candidacy. In the elections, he entered the House of Representatives for the five-star movement . In the Conte I government, formed by the five-star movement and Lega , he was first appointed Undersecretary and finally Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Education.

After the failure of the yellow-green coalition, he took over the post of education minister in the Conte II cabinet on September 5, 2019. After the cabinet was formed, he said that he would resign if the budget did not provide at least three billion euros more for educational tasks would. After the budget was passed on December 23, 2019 without the requested increase in his budget, he announced his resignation. A few days later, he also announced that he was leaving the five-star movement. On December 30, 2019, President Mattarella dismissed Finamonti from his ministerial office.

Web links

Commons : Lorenzo Fioramonti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography on the Ministry's website (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Il Ministro. In: miur.gov.it. July 10, 2019, accessed September 9, 2019 (Italian). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Lorenzo Fioramonti, chi è il candidato M5S: dalla laurea in Filosofia alla critica al pil. Con tappa alla Rockefeller Foundation. In: ilfattoquotidiano.it. February 16, 2018, accessed September 9, 2019 (Italian). 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Lorenzo Fioramonti, età moglie figli biografia nuovo Ministro MIUR. In: theitaliantimes.it. September 6, 2019, accessed September 9, 2019 (Italian). 
4. ^ Governo, nominati 45 tra viceministri e sottosegretari: Castelli e Garavaglia al Mef. Crimi all'Editoria. Dentro anche Siri. In: ilfattoquotidiano.it. June 12, 2018, accessed September 9, 2019 (Italian). 
5. ↑ Italy's Minister of Education resigns. faz.net, December 26, 2019.
6. ^ Il ministro dell'Istruzione Fioramonti ha dato le dimissioni, si fa avanti Morra. In: corriere.it. December 25, 2019, accessed December 30, 2019 (Italian). 
7. ^ Fioramonti lascia i Cinque stelle, va al misto. In: ansa.it. December 30, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019 (Italian). 
8. ↑ Istruzione, Mattarella accetta le dimissioni di Fioramonti e Affida l'interim del dicastero a Conte. In: repubblica.it. December 30, 2019, accessed January 4, 2020 (Italian). 

predecessor	Office	successor
Marco Bussetti	Italian Minister of Education September 5, 2019 - December 30, 2019	Giuseppe Conte (ad interim)