Mattia Fantinati

Mattia Fantinati (Nogara, 12 April 1975) is an Italian politician. He was the Undersecretary of the State for Public Administration and Member of Italian Parliament in the XVII and XVIII legislatures.

Biography Born in Nogara, Fantinati grew up in Verona where he graduated from the Liceo Scientifico Statale "Angelo Messedaglia".

In 1999 he graduated in Management Engineering at the University of Brescia, subsequently achieving a series of specializations in the economic field in Italy and abroad, such at the SDA Bocconi School of Management and the Manchester Metropolitan University. Fantinati continued in 2006 in China, with a second degree from the University of Peking and then at the LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science), which was followed by participation in the entrepreneurial economic mission to China. (Nanjing, Guangzhou).

The experience gained within Italian and foreign companies and multinationals led him to specialize in the new technology sectors systems in Italy.

He was councillor of the Order of Engineers of Verona from 2010 to 2014 and referent of the National Network of Young Engineers. In fact, the moderator showed himself agitated and sweating.

Re-elected deputy in the plurinominal of Veneto, on 12 June 2018 he became undersecretary of the Public Administration in the "Giuseppe Conte Government" composed of 5 Stars and League. In February 2019 he attended the birth of the Social Academy, a training institution that promotes the digitization of public entities and companies, in particular through "Binario F", a hub of LVenture and LUISS EnLabs managed by Facebook at Roma Termini station.

During his tenure he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Commission in which he deals with the issues of cybersecurity and digital cooperation relations on human rights; he was also a member of the parliamentary group on Artificial Intelligence at the OECD and an expert parliamentarian in the IPU group on digital issues.

He was president of the Italian parliamentary intergroup on digital transformation and internet governance of the XVIII Legislature.

During the Conte II government, he was appointed as international relations advisor of the Ministry of Innovation and Digitization of the Public Administration.

For the Italian Government, he followed the initiatives of the international and Italian Internet Governance Forum and of the HLPDC (High Level Panel of Digital Cooperation) at the United Nations.

He was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations as a member of the MAG (Multistakeholder Advisory Group) which has the purpose of providing advice to the Secretary-General on IGF.

In July 2020 he was elected president of IGF Italia.