Succeeded by Vacant Spouse Gianni Orengo Preceded by Filippo Milone Role Italian Politician | Name Roberta Pinotti | |
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Roberta pinotti minister of defence italy torino piemonte aerospace al farnborough airshow 2014
Roberta Pinotti (born 20 May 1961) is an Italian politician. Since 22 February 2014 she has been the Italian Minister of Defence.
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- Roberta pinotti minister of defence italy torino piemonte aerospace al farnborough airshow 2014
- Secretary of defense ash carter and italy mod roberta pinotti joint press conference 10 7 2015
- Biography
- Personal life
- References
Secretary of defense ash carter and italy mod roberta pinotti joint press conference 10 7 2015
Biography
Born in Genoa, Pinotti holds a degree in modern literature and is a teacher of Italian in high schools. She began her political career at the end of the 1980s as a district counselor of Italian Communist Party. She later joined the Democratic Party of the Left, the Democrats of the Left party (in which she held the position of provincial secretary between 1999 and 2001) and the Democratic Party. In her hometown she has served as councilor for school, youth policies and social policies (1993-1997) and for educational institutions (1997-1999).
First elected deputy in 2001, Pinotti was the shadow minister of defense in the Shadow Cabinet of Walter Veltroni between May 2008 and April 2009. In 2013 she was appointed undersecretary of state (sottosegretario di stato) in the Ministry of Defence in the Letta Cabinet, and then, on 21 February 2014, she was appointed as Minister of Defence. She received the America Award of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2014.
In October 2014 she visited the United Arab Emirates and met with Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in order to strengthen the bilateral relations with regards to the Defense. In February 2015 she returned to the United Arab Emirates in occasion of the International Defence Industry Exhibition (IDEX), attended by several Italian companies, and met again with Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
She received criticism in February 2015 over navy recruitment adverts which used slogans written in English. Later that month she hinted that Italy was ready to lead a coalition force to defeat ISIS in Libya, saying: “We have been discussing it for months, but now an intervention has become urgent.”
Personal life
Pinotti is married and has two daughters.