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TOKYO FORUM 2019 Shaping the Future SPEAKERS Enrico Letta
SPEAKERS

Enrico Letta

Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po; Former Prime Minister of Italy
Friday 6, December
PROFILE
Enrico Letta is the Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po in Paris and also the President of the Jacques Delors Institute. On June 1st 2019, Enrico Letta appointed President of APSIA (Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs).

He was the Prime Minister of Italy from April 2013 to February 2014. Before he served as Minister for EU Affairs (1998-1999), as Minister for Industry, Commerce and Crafts (January-April 2000), as Minister for Industry, Commerce and Crafts and Foreign Trade (2000-2001) and as Undersecretary of State to the Prime Minister of the centre-left government led by Romano Prodi from 2006 to 2008.

Between 2001 and 2015 he was Member of the Italian Parliament, excluding between 2004 and 2006 when he was Member of the European Parliament. He also served as deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party from 2009 to 2013.

He was born in Pisa in 1966 and he spent the first years of his life in Strasbourg. He graduated in International Law at the University of Pisa and obtained a PhD in European Union Law at the School for Advanced Studies “Sant’Anna” of Pisa.