Romano Prodi
Romano Prodi (born August 9, 1939) is an Italian politician. He earned a degree in law from the Catholic University of Milan and later studied at the London School of Economics. This began a career in Italy's academia as a professor and researcher in Economics, which included brief visiting appointments at Stanford and Harvard universities in the United States.
During the mid-1970s, he began to enter Italian politics, and was appointed Minister of Industry in 1978; he held posts on various commissions through the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1995 he became Chairman of the centre-left Ulivo coalition, and in 1996 Prime Minister, a position he held until 1998.
He is currently the President of the European Commission, a post he has held since September 1999.
External Links
- Official Site of the President of the European Commission - Includes a curriculum vitae, from which some of the information in this article was drawn
