XXVIII Edition

June 23-24, 2016

DELLA VEDOVA

Benedetto DELLA VEDOVA

As Undersecretary at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation since February 2014, in the Government of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Benedetto’s portfolio includes relations with Asia-Pacific countries, Canada and Mexico, supporting the internationalization of Italian companies, and economic and financial matters related to the G8 and the G20.
Benedetto is a member of the Italian Senate, elected in 2013. He has a longstanding career as MP both in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, from 2006 to 2013, and in the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004.
A member of the Transnational Radical Party since 1992, he is a staunch advocate of human rights and fundamental freedoms, of the abolition of the capital punishment, of free market and the European Union. He recently promoted a bill in the Italian Parliament on the legalization of cannabis which is co-sponsored by a vast cross-party group of Italian MPs.
He was Assistant professor for Economics and Agricultural Policies at Università Cattolica, Milan, from 1990 to 1995 and has a degree in economics at Bocconi University.