15 Facts About Letizia Moratti

Letizia Maria Moratti is an Italian businesswoman and politician.

Letizia Moratti graduated in political science from the University of Milan.

Letizia Moratti was married to the oil magnate Gianmarco Moratti and has two children, Gabriele and Gilda.

From 2001 to 2006, Letizia Moratti was Minister of Education, University and Research in the second and third Berlusconi cabinets.

Letizia Moratti sought a second term in the 2011 Milan municipal but lost to the centre-left coalition candidate Giuliano Pisapia.

Under Letizia Moratti, Milan was selected in 2007 as the hosting city for the Expo 2015.

Letizia Moratti was commissioner of the Expo until 2011, when after her electoral loss, she resigned as commissioner out of respect for the new administration.

The Letizia Moratti administration continued Gabriele Albertini's parking program, and in 2006 created 64,000 underground parking spaces, in neighbourhoods like Naviglio Grande and Sant'Ambrogio's zone.

In 2008, Letizia Moratti created the Ecopass, a road pricing in the Milan Centre.

Letizia Moratti proposed unsuccessfully a park dedicated to Bettino Craxi, the controversial Italian Socialist Party leader who died while exiled in Tunisia in 2000.

In January 2021, Letizia Moratti was appointed vice president and Assessor of Welfare in the Regional Cabinet of Lombardy.

Letizia Moratti resigned on 2 November 2022 to be a candidate for president of Lombardy.

In 2006, Letizia Moratti was accused of firing 10 executives of the city.

Letizia Moratti served in the city council only 6 presences in 2008 and 3 in 2009.

Letizia Moratti appointed Lucio Stanca, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, as managing director for the Expo 2015, despite the vote of the city council against her decision.