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Giulio Tremonti

Biography
(from the Italian Government official web site, www.governo.it)

Born in Sondrio on 18 August 1947, Giulio Tremonti has a degree in law; he is an attorney and a university professor. Full Professor of Tax Law at the Faculty of Law. Winner of National Research Council fellowships from the Ministry of Education. He has been Director of the Finance Institute of the University of Parma. He is assistant editor-in-chief of Rivista di diritto finanziario e scienza delle finanze. He has been an editorial page columnist for Il Mondo and Corriere della Sera.
He has been a member of many commissions, including: the Italian delegation for the treaty against double taxation between Italy and the United States and the Italy-Vatican commission for the public financing of Church organizations.

Chairman of the Committee on foreign exchange reform.
Attorney authorized to practice before the Court of Cassation.
Minister of Finance in the first Berlusconi Government.
Member of the parliamentary Joint Committee for the Reform of the Italian Constitution.
Member of the Executive Committee of Aspen Institute Italy.
Member, for moral sciences, of the Lombard Institute, Academy of Science and Letters.

His fields of activity are: general and constitutional tax law; tax trial law; Community and comparative tax law; fiscal policy; geo-finance.

He is the author of many publications. His books include: Imposizione e definitività nel diritto tributario (Milan, Giuffrè, 1977); (with Vitaletti) Le cento tasse degli italiani (Bologna, Il Mulino, 1986); La fiscalità industriale (Bologna, Il Mulino, 1988); (with Vitaletti) La fiera delle tasse (Bologna, Il Mulino, 1991); (with Galgano, Cassese, Treu), Nazioni senza ricchezza ricchezze senza nazione (Bologna, Il Mulino, 1993); (with Vitaletti) Il federalismo fiscale (Bari, Laterza, 1994); La riforma fiscale (Milan, Oscar Mondadori, 1995); (with Luttwack and Pelanda) Il fantasma della povertà (Bari, Laterza, 1995). Legislative activity. Bills presented as first sponsor: Measures for the reform of the rules on the election of the Chamber of Deputies; Simplification and rationalization of fiscal obligations in the matter of electronic commerce.

Elected to the Chamber of Deputies in May 2001, he led the Ministry of Economics and Finance in the second Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's cabinet until July 3, 2004, when he was forced to resign by two minor parties of the government coalition, AN (National Alliance, led by Mr Gianfranco Fini) and UDC (Center Democratic Union, led by Mr Marco Follini), strongly supportive of anti-liberalist economic policies and opposers to a radical federal reform of Italy.