Claudio Burlando (born 27 April 1954, in

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of ...

) is an Italian

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, and was President of

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, until 31 March 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and a former

Democrats of the Left The Democrats of the Left ( it, Democratici di Sinistra, DS) was a social-democratic political party in Italy. The DS, successor of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and the Italian Communist Party, was formed in 1998 upon the merger of th ...

member.

Career

After graduating with a degree in

electronic engineering Electronics engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering which emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current ...

, in the eighties he worked as a researcher for the company Elsag-Bailey. He became interested in politics from a young age, adhering to the

Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy. The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) ...

with which he took his first steps in politics and he held the first public office, becoming secretary of the federation Genoese party from 1989 to 1990. He later joined the Democratic Party of the Left, with which he was elected to

Parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. Th ...

and has held the position of national coordinator of local authorities (1994-1996) and the Democrats of the Left, of which he was chief economist from 1998 to 2000. With the Communist Party, he became councilor (1981-1993) and Commissioner for Transport (1983-1985). He was deputy mayor of

(1990-1992, during the tenure of Romano Merlo) From 3 December 1992 to 19 May 1993 was Mayor of Genoa. In 1996 he was elected Member of the PDS and in the same year, appointed by

Romano Prodi Romano Antonio Prodi (; born 9 August 1939) is an Italian politician, economist, academic, senior civil servant, and business executive who served as the tenth president of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. He served twice as Pr ...

as Minister of Transport and Navigation. Two years after,

Massimo D'Alema Massimo D'Alema (; born 20 April 1949) is an Italian politician and journalist who was the 53rd prime minister of Italy from 1998 to 2000. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2008. D'Alema also serv ...

appointed him a member of the budget committee of the

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. On 14 October 2007 he was elected to the Constituent National Democratic Party, a political project in which he personally participated since its first designAs remembered by

in an article he wrote on ''La Repubblica'' on April 22, 200

/ref> and was a member of the committee that drafted the Manifesto of Values.

References

External links

Official website

Profile at Italian Chamber of Deputies
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