1. Roberto Gualtieri was born on 19 July 1966 and is an Italian historian, academic and politician of the Democratic Party, incumbent Mayor of Rome since 2021 and Minister of Economy and Finances in the second government of Giuseppe Conte from 2019 until 2021.
Roberto Gualtieri previously was a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019, where he chaired the influential Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee within the Parliament from 2014 until 2019.
Since 2001, Roberto Gualtieri has been deputy director of the Gramsci Institute Foundation.
In 2006, Roberto Gualtieri was among the founders of the Democratic Party and he was among the "wise men" who wrote its Manifesto.
Roberto Gualtieri voted against party leader Matteo Renzi in favour of post-communists both in 2013 and 2014.
From 2008 to 2011, Roberto Gualtieri served as director of the "Annual Report on European Integration".
Roberto Gualtieri was a full member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and substitute of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
In December 2011, Roberto Gualtieri was part of the European Parliament negotiating team for the establishment of the "Fiscal Compact".
From 2013, Roberto Gualtieri was member of the Spinelli Group in the European Parliament, and he has been among the authors of the "Fundamental Law of the European Union", published by the Bertelsmann Foundation.
Roberto Gualtieri led the EU-Election Observer Missions for the parliamentary election in Kosovo in 2014 and the 2013 municipal elections in Kosovo.
Roberto Gualtieri chaired the EP Financial Assistance Working Group, established in 2016 to monitor the implementation of third Greek financial assistance program, and the Committee's Banking Union Working Group.
From 2016, Roberto Gualtieri was a member of the Committee of Inquiry to investigate alleged contraventions and maladministration in the application of Union law in relation to money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion.
From 2017, Roberto Gualtieri served on the Parliament's so-called Brexit Steering Group, which works under the aegis of the Conference of Presidents and to coordinates Parliament's deliberations, considerations and resolutions on the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
On 5 September 2019 Roberto Gualtieri was appointed Minister of Economy and Finance.
On 26 January 2020, Roberto Gualtieri was picked by the centre-left coalition as its candidate at the incoming by-election in the constituency of Rome Quartiere Trionfale for the Chamber of Deputies.
When negotiations to form Conte's third cabinet failed, the former President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, formed a national unity government, in which Roberto Gualtieri was not confirmed as minister.
On 9 May 2021, Roberto Gualtieri officially announced his candidacy as Mayor of Rome in the upcoming election.
Roberto Gualtieri is a social democrat and often describes himself as a Keynesian.
Roberto Gualtieri was once a semi-professional bossa nova musician who accompanied Brazilian singer Rosalia de Souza when she performed in Italy.