Ivan Scalfarotto | |
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| Member of the Senate of the Republic | |
| Assumed office 13 October 2022 | |
| Constituency | Piedmont |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 15 March 2013 – 13 October 2022 | |
| Constituency | Apulia (2013-2018) Lombardy 1 (2018-2022) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 August 1965 Pescara, Italy |
| Political party | FdV (1990–1995) DS (1998–2007) PD (2007–2019) IV (since 2019) |
| Alma mater | University of Naples Federico II |
| Profession | Politician |
Ivan Scalfarotto (born 16 August 1965) is an Italian politician and activist, committed to LGBT rights. A member of the Italian Parliament, he was a Deputy Minister at the Italian Ministry of Interior.
Previously a Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Constitutional Reforms (2014–2016), the Ministry of Economic development (2016–2018) where he was in charge of international trade, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (2019–2021), in 2005 Scalfarotto ran to become the national leader of The Union, the centre-left coalition, in the primary elections that were held to identify their candidate to lead the Italian Government. Between 2009 and 2013 he was a Deputy Chairperson of the Democratic Party. In the 2013 and 2018 general elections he was elected to the Italian Parliament (Chamber of Deputies). In September 2019 he abandoned the Democratic Party to join Italia Viva, former PM Matteo Renzi's newly created political movement.
In 2015 and 2016 he was enlisted, the only Italian national, as one of the Top 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life within the "Global Diversity List".