Sergio Mattarella

Sergio Mattarella is an Italian politician and former constitutional judge, born in 1941, who has been president of Italy since 2015 and was re-elected in 2022. He graduated in law in 1964, became a lawyer in Palermo in 1967 with a particular interest in administrative law, and taught parliamentary procedure at the University of Palermo until 1983. He served as Minister for Parliamentary Relations, Minister of Education, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence before retiring from politics in 2008. In October 2011 the Italian Parliament elected him a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy, where he served until he became president in 2015 and was the rapporteur of thirty-nine of its judgments.