MEAC
Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati
Italy
Minister, Institutional Reforms & Regulatory Simplification
Description
Place of Birth: Rovigo (Italy)
Academic training: Degree in Law and Degree in Canon Law
Professional experience:
- Lecturer in Canon and Ecclesiastical Law at the Universities of Padua and Ferrara;
- She has practised law nationally and internationally, operating within both the State and Church judicial systems
Publications: Author of two monographs and numerous essays
Current position: Minister for Institutional Reforms and Regulatory Simplification
Start of term: 22 October 2022
Main activities:
- Constitutional reform for direct election of the President of the Council of Ministers, to bring greater stability to future governments;
- Constitutional reform to endow the Municipality of Rome with greater powers and resources;
- Extensive work on cutting back on, classifying and reorganizing current legislation;
- A 28% reduction in regulatory stock;
- Inclusion of a Generational Impact Assessment in governmental legislative proposals.
Previous institutional positions and parliamentary activities:
- From 2018 to 2022 she was President of the Senate: the first woman in the history of the Italian Republic to hold this office; President with the most votes in Palazzo Madama since the beginning, in 1994, of the Second Republic; the first President to come from the ranks of the parliamentary opposition
- In 2014, she was elected to the High Council of the Judiciary as a lay member by the Parliament meeting in joint session
- In 2013, she was elected to the Presidency Council of the Senate as Secretary of the Chamber
- From 2008 to 2011, she was Undersecretary of State for Justice
- From 2004 to 2006, she held the position of Undersecretary of State for Health
- In 2001, she was elected President of the Commission for Regional Affairs and of the Equal Opportunities Commission.
- In 1994, she was elected President of the Hygiene and Health Commission.
After her first election in 1994, she was re-confirmed to the Senate in 2001, 2006, 2008, 2013, 2018 and 2022.
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