Emma Bonino

Emma Bonino
Bonino in 2019
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office
23 March 2018 – 12 October 2022
ConstituencyRome
In office
29 April 2008 – 14 March 2013
ConstituencyPiedmont
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
28 April 2013 – 22 February 2014
Prime MinisterEnrico Letta
Preceded byMario Monti (Acting)
Succeeded byFederica Mogherini
Minister of European Affairs and International Trade
In office
17 May 2006 – 7 May 2008
Prime MinisterRomano Prodi
Preceded byGiorgio La Malfa
(European Affairs)
Succeeded byAndrea Ronchi
(European Affairs)
Claudio Scajola
(Development)
European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection
In office
25 January 1995 – 16 September 1999
PresidentJacques Santer
Manuel Marín
(Acting)
Preceded byChristiane Scrivener
Succeeded byDavid Byrne
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
5 July 1976 – 20 December 1978
ConstituencyRome
In office
13 June 1979 – 10 July 1983
ConstituencyRome
In office
5 December 1986 – 2 July 1987
ConstituencyNaples
In office
10 July 1990 – 25 January 1995
ConstituencyNaples (1990–1992)
Rome (1992–1994)
Padua (1994–1995)
In office
21 April 2006 – 28 April 2008
ConstituencyVeneto
Member of the European Parliament
In office
17 July 1979 – 12 April 1988
ConstituencyNorth-West Italy
In office
20 July 1999 – 27 April 2006
ConstituencyNorth-West Italy (1999–2004)
North-East Italy (2004–2006)
Personal details
Born (1948-03-09) 9 March 1948 (age 76)
Bra, Italy
Political partyItalian Radicals (since 2001)
More Europe (since 2017)
Other political
affiliations
Radical Party (1975–2017)
Pannella List (1989–1996)
Bonino List (1999–2004)
Alma materBocconi University
Websiteemmabonino.it

Emma Bonino OMRI, CdrLH (born 9 March 1948)[1] is an Italian politician. She was a senator for Rome between 2008 and 2013, and again between 2018 and 2022. She also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2014. Previously, she was a Member of the European Parliament and a member of the Chamber of Deputies. She served in the government of Italy as Minister of International Trade from 2006 to 2008. She was European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection.

Bonino is a leading member of the Italian Radicals, a political party which describes itself "liberale, liberista, and libertario", where liberista denotes economic liberalism and libertario a form of cultural liberalism concerning moral issues, with some ideological connection with historical left-libertarianism. She graduated in modern languages and literature from Bocconi University in Milan in 1972. A veteran legislator in Italian politics and an activist for various reform policies, she was elected six times as deputy and two times as senator. She is the leader of More Europe, a liberal, European federalist party list she launched in December 2017, ahead of the 2018 Italian general election.

  1. ^ Gino Moliterno, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture (PDF). London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-203-74849-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2015.