Margherita Cogo

Margherita Cogo (born 2 October 1951) was the first woman to be President of the Italian autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and also the region's first Vice President.

Biography Margherita Cogo was born in 1951 in Tione di Trento, Italy. She graduated from the University of Padua with a degree in philosophy and then married and had two children. Cogo began her career as a humanities teacher in a local middle school and later taught literature.

In 1985 she was elected to serve on the City Council of Tione, but did not stand for renomination in 2013. In 2014, she became the President of the Scuola Musicale Giudicarie (Giudicarie Music School).