Guglielmo Picchi (born 26 April 1973) is an Italian politician.
Picchi, a long time London resident until recently served as deputy minister of foreign affairs of Italy under the Conte I cabinet from 2018 to 2019. He is now a member of the Italian Delegation to the
NATO Parliamentary Assembly
The NATO Parliamentary Assembly serves as the consultative interparliamentary organisation for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It consists of delegates from the parliaments of the 32 NATO member countries as well as from associate ...
and senior member of the committee on foreign affairs.
He is a member of parliament since 2006 as he was elected four times to the Camera dei deputati and has been a long serving member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, where he was among the leadership and participated or lead some 28 Electoral Observation Missions including to the US, UK, Germany, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Kirghizstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, Tunisia.
In the OSCEPA he was also deputy chairman of the migration committee and member of the counter terrorism committee
He graduated in business at the
University of Florence
The University of Florence ( Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Firenze'') (in acronym UNIFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled.
History
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, was a visiting student at The University of Birmingham in 1994/1995 and with a Master of Business Administration from the
SDA Bocconi
SDA Bocconi School of Management (SDA standing for Scuola di Direzione Aziendale) was founded in 1971 and is the graduate business school of Bocconi University in Milan and Rome, Italy. SDA Bocconi is triple accredited by the AACSB, EQUIS, and ...
Business school in Milan
He was one of the founders of the
Forza Italia
(FI; ) was a centre-right liberal-conservative political party in Italy, with Christian democratic,Chiara Moroni, , Carocci, Rome 2008 liberalOreste Massari, ''I partiti politici nelle democrazie contempoiranee'', Laterza, Rome-Bari 2004 (esp ...
party in Tuscany in 1993.
Since 2016, he has been a member of
Lega Nord
Lega Nord (LN; ), whose complete name is (), is a right-wing politics, right-wing, federalism, federalist, populism, populist and conservatism, conservative list of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy. In the run-up to the 201 ...
.
Picchi was elected to the City council of
Florence
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025.
Florence ...
from 1995 to 1999,
[ but then moved to London to work for a British investment bank. In 2006, he was elected for the first time to the ]Italian parliament
The Italian Parliament () is the national parliament of the Italy, Italian Republic. It is the representative body of Italian citizens and is the successor to the Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1848–1861), the Parliament of the Kingd ...
in the European overseas constituency with 5,362 preference votes
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* Any electoral system that allows a voter to indicate multiple preferences where preferences marked are weighted or used as cont ...
.[
In 2008 he was re-elected in the same constituency with 13,239 preference votes][ for the ]People of Freedom
The People of Freedom (, PdL) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL launched by Silvio Berlusconi as an electoral list, including and National Alliance, on 27 February for the 2008 Italian general election. The list was later t ...
party and, from June 2008, was a member of the Italian Parliamentary delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization comprising member states in Europe, North America, and Asia. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, the p ...
(OSCE).[
Picchi successfully defended his seat for the third consecutive time at the Italian General Elections on 24 February 2013. He increased his personal preferences to 20650.
In February 2017, he was among the founding members of the Machiavelli Center for Political and Strategic Studies, a conservative think tank based in Florence.Guglielmo Picchi, Author for MACHIAVELLI]
(In Italian).
In 2018 Picchi was elected to its fourth parliament in the constituency of Massa Lucca Pistoia Prato with Lega Salvini Premier.
From 12 June 2018 he serves as deputy minister of foreign affairs.
he is now a member of the foreign affairs committee.
Picchi currently lives in London (commuting to Italy on a weekly basis) and is also a conservative party member of the Cities of London and Westminster Conservative Association.
Both in 2008 and 2012 he supported Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He wa ...
in his successful mayoral campaign in London. The Italian community in London largely voted for Johnson under the direction and efforts of Picchi, who represented that community in the Italian Parliament.
References
External links
Official website
Blog
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Lega Nord politicians
Living people
1973 births
University of Florence alumni
Politicians from Florence