GIULIANO AMATO

Member of the Senate
Italy

Date of Birth: 13th May, 1938

Former Vice President of the European Convention.

Previous functions at national or local level:
Member of Parliament from 1983 to 1994; Under Secretary to the Prime Minister's Office from 1983 to 1987; Minister for the Treasury from 1987 to 1989 and from 1999 to 2000; Minister for Constitutional Reforms from 1998 to 1999; Deputy Prime Minister from 1987 to 1988 and Prime Minister from 1992 to 1993 and from 2000 to 2001. He also headed the Italian Antitrust Authority from 1994 to 1997.

Full Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Rome, School of Political Science, from 1975 to 1997, he had been Full Professor at the Universities of Modena, Perugia, Florence. Presently he is Global Law Professor at the NYU Law School and part time Professor at the EUI in Florence.

He studied law at the University of Pisa, where he graduated in 1960. Master's degree in
Comparative Law at the School of Law of Columbia University (N.Y.) in 1962.

He has written books and articles on the economy and public institutions, personal liberties, federalism and comparative government. His most recent publications include "Antitrust and the Bounds of Power", Hart Publishing, Oxford 1997, and "When the Economy is affected with a Public Interest", in F.Snyder (Ed.), "The Europeanisation of Law", Hart Publishing, Oxford 2000.