Sergio Chiamparino

SERGIO CHIAMPARINO, Mayor of Torino

Sergio Chiamparino was born in 1948. He holds a degree in Political Science with an econometrics thesis on the labour market. He worked for some years as a university researcher at the Cognetti De Martiis Laboratory of Political Economics at the Political Science Faculty of Torino; co-ordinator of the programme for Regione Piemonte from 1975 to 1979. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino from 1978 to 1980. He then held numerous political and trade union offices until being elected to Parliament in 1996, and was a member of the Budget Commission of the Chamber of Deputies for five years. He was elected Mayor of Torino in 2001 and re-elected in 2006. He is currently national President of the ANCI (Italian association of municipalities).