Emanuele Fiano

Emanuele "Lele" Fiano (born 13 March 1963) is an Italian politician and former member of Italy's Chamber of Deputies for the centre-left Democratic Party. A prominent figure in the Italian Jewish community, Fiano is a past president of the Jewish Community of Milan and former director of the Union of Jewish Communities in Italy.

Early life and education Born in Milan, Lombardy, Fiano is the son of Nedo Fiano, a Holocaust survivor who was deported to Auschwitz and was the sole survivor of his family. In his youth, Emanuele was a Jewish youth leader in the Hashomer Hatzair Socialist–Zionist youth movement in Milan.

Fiano attended the Politecnico di Milano, where he received his B.A. in architecture in 1988 and his PhD in urban architectural design in 2002. Afterwards he worked as a freelance architect.

During the first congress of the Partito Democratico, he was a candidate for regional secretary of the party in Lombardy. He placed second in the primaries of 25 October 2009 with approximately 30% of the vote.