Roberto Gualtieri has been mayor of Rome since October 2021. A historian, university professor and politician with the Democratic Party, he leads the administration of the Italian capital with an agenda focused on the modernization of urban services, mobility, neighborhood revitalization, sustainability and the city’s European and international profile.

Between 2019 and 2021, he served as Italy’s Minister of Economy and Finance, a role in which he participated in the economic response to the pandemic and in the European negotiations that led to the Next Generation EU program. Previously, he served as a member of the European Parliament for a decade and chaired its Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, in addition to being part of the Brexit negotiating team. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic History and is an associate professor of Contemporary History at La Sapienza University in Rome.