Giuliano Amato

Giuliano Amato is an Italian law professor and politician, born in Turin in 1938, who twice served as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1992 to 1993 and from 2000 to 2001. He took a law degree at the University of Pisa in 1960 and a master's degree in comparative law at Columbia Law School in 1963, then taught at the universities of Modena, Perugia and Florence before serving as professor of Italian and comparative constitutional law at the University of Rome La Sapienza from 1975 to 1997. He headed the Italian antitrust authority from 1994 to 1997, was Minister of the Interior from 2006 to 2008 and was Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe. He sat on the Constitutional Court of Italy from September 2013 to September 2022, serving as its president for the last months of that term.