Renato Ruggiero

Renato Ruggiero

Renato Ruggiero (born April 9, 1930 in Naples , † August 4, 2013 in Milan ) was an Italian diplomat and politician .

Life

After studying law at the University of Naples , Ruggiero embarked on a diplomatic career in 1955. The first stops abroad were São Paulo , Moscow , Washington, DC and Belgrade . In 1970 he became head of cabinet of the EC Commission President Franco Maria Malfatti . From 1973 to 1977 he headed the Directorate General for Regional Policy in Brussels . He then served in Rome as diplomatic advisor to the prime minister and head of cabinet to the foreign minister. In 1980 he returned to Brussels as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Italy to the EC. In 1984 he took over the economic department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome . In the following year he was appointed General Secretary and thus head of the Ministry.

In 1987 Ruggiero began a career as a politician. From 1987 to 1991 he was Minister of Foreign Trade. He then worked in management positions or in an advisory capacity for Fiat and a number of other companies until 1995 .

Between 1995 and 1999, Ruggiero was Director General of the WTO in Geneva . In September 1999 he took over the management of the ENI group in Rome . On June 11, 2001, Silvio Berlusconi brought Renato Ruggiero into his second government as Foreign Minister. With the politically largely independent, internationally respected “technocrat” Berlusconi wanted to strengthen his government's reputation abroad. However, Ruggiero resigned from his office on January 6, 2002 because he did not agree with the political line Berlusconi and his coalition partner Lega Nord .

From 2006 to 2008 he served Prime Minister Romano Prodi as an advisor on European issues. He then worked in a management or advisory capacity for the credit institutions Citigroup and Unicredit .

Renato Ruggiero died on August 4, 2013 after a long illness in a hospital in Milan.

Awards (excerpt)

He received the Grand Cross (1st class) of the Japanese Order of the Holy Treasure .

literature

• Renato Ruggiero in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• Literature by and about Renato Ruggiero in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jean-Marie Thiébaud: L'Ordre du Trésor sacré (Japon). In: Editions L'Harmattan. L'Harmattan, December 2007, accessed July 27, 2009 (French).