Claudio Burlando

Claudio Burlando
President of Liguria
In office 14 April 2005 – 11 June 2015
Preceded by	Sandro Biasotti
Succeeded by	Giovanni Toti
Minister of Transports
In office 17 May 1996 – 21 October 1998
Prime Minister	Romano Prodi
Preceded by	Giovanni Caravale
Succeeded by	Tiziano Treu
Mayor of Genoa
In office 3 December 1992 – 19 May 1993
Preceded by	Romano Merlo
Succeeded by	Adriano Sansa
Member of Chamber of Deputies
In office 9 May 1996 – 29 May 2001
Constituency	Liguria
In office 29 May 2001 – 27 May 2006
Constituency	9 – Genova, (Liguria)
Personal details
Born	(1954-04-27) 27 April 1954 Genoa, Italy
Political party	Democratic Party (2007-present)
Other political affiliations	Italian Communist Party (1974-1991) Democratic Party of the Left (1991-1998) Democrats of the Left (1998-2007)
Residence	Genoa

Claudio Burlando (born 27 April 1954, in Genoa) is an Italian politician, and was President of Liguria, until 31 March 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and a former Democrats of the Left member.

Career

After graduating with a degree in electronic engineering, in the eighties he worked as a researcher for the company Elsag-Bailey. He became interested in politics from a young age, adhering to the Italian Communist Party with which he took his first steps in politics and he held the first public office, becoming secretary of the federation Genoese party from 1989 to 1990.

He later joined the Democratic Party of the Left, with which he was elected to Parliament and has held the position of national coordinator of local authorities (1994-1996) and the Democrats of the Left, of which he was chief economist from 1998 to 2000. With the Communist Party, he became councilor (1981-1993) and Commissioner for Transport (1983-1985). He was deputy mayor of Genoa (1990-1992, during the tenure of Romano Merlo). From 3 December 1992 to 19 May 1993 he was Mayor of Genoa.

In 1996 he was elected Member of the PDS and in the same year, appointed by Romano Prodi as Minister of Transport and Navigation. Two years after, Massimo D'Alema appointed him a member of the budget committee of the Chamber of Deputies.

On 14 October 2007 he was elected to the Constituent National Democratic Party, a political project in which he personally participated since its first design and was a member of the committee that drafted the Manifesto of Values.

External links

• Official website Archived 23 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
• Profile at Italian Chamber of Deputies