Roberto FORMIGONI

President, Region of Lombardy

Roberto Formigoni has been President of the Region of Lombardy since 1995.
Born in Lecco in 1947, he graduated in Philosophy at the Università Cattolica in Milan and later studied Political Economics at the Sorbonne, Paris.
In 1973 he was among the founders of the Popular Movement, of which he was national president up to 1987. Elected as European MP in 1984, he was re-elected in 1989 and for five years served as Vice-President of the European Parliament. He first gained a seat in the Italian Parliament in June 1987. Re-elected in 1992 and 1994, from 1993 to 1994 Roberto Formigoni was State Under-secretary at the Ministry for the Environment.
In December 2004 he was awarded an honorary Degree in Communication Science by the IULM University (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione).
Roberto Formigoni has developed in Lombardy a sound model of governance for the entire Nation by promoting the Lombardy’s socio-economic system on the international stage through extremely high-profile institutional missions across all five continents.
He is currently a member of the People of Freedom party's Presidential Office.