Giuseppe Conte

Giuseppe Conte is an Italian jurist, academic and politician, born in 1964, who served as prime minister of Italy from June 2018 to February 2021. He studied law at the Sapienza University of Rome, graduating with honours in 1988, qualified as a lawyer in 1992 and studied abroad, including at Yale Law School. He taught at Roma Tre University, LUMSA, the University of Malta and the University of Sassari before becoming professor of private law at the University of Florence and at LUISS in Rome. From 2013 to 2018 he sat on the Bureau of Administrative Justice, the self-governing body of administrative magistrates. He was proposed as independent head of a coalition government in 2018 despite having held no political position before, and he has led the Five Star Movement since 2021.