Who is Valentina Gemignani, new chief of staff of the Ministry of Culture

Following the resignation of Francesco Spano, who lasted just nine days in office, Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli has appointed the new chief of staff of the Ministry of Culture: she is Abruzzo-born Valentina Gemignani, an executive at the Treasury, who until her appointment was one of five deputy chiefs of staff at the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

Born in 1972, from Chieti, she graduated in law in 1994 from the University of Teramo and also from the same university obtained a bachelor’s degree in administrative sciences in 2006, while in 2019 she earned a master’s degree in Public Administration Management from SDA Bocconi. In 1997, she obtained her license to practice law at the L’Aquila Court of Appeals. She is married to former congressman Basilio Catanoso (born Francesco Catanoso Genoese), a Sicilian, born in 1963, in the House for four legislatures, first with Alleanza Nazionale, then with Popolo delle Libertà, and finally with Forza Italia (then switched, after the end of the legislature, to Fratelli d’Italia).

She began working in 1996 as municipal secretary in the province of Pavia, a post she held until 2004. Between 2001 and 2004 she was also manager at the Municipality of Chignolo Po (Pavia). In 2005 she moved to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where she worked at the Directorate General for Development Cooperation and the Legislative Office. He remained at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 2008, after which, from 2008 to 2014, he served as manager of the Human Resources area and, on an interim basis, of the Administration, Finance and Control area of Laziodisu, the institution for the right to university studies in Lazio. In 2015, the move to the MEF, where until 2021 she was director general of the ministry’s cabinet before becoming director general of the Treasury Services Directorate of the Department of General Administration, Personnel and Services as well as deputy chief of the cabinet, positions she has held to date. The one at MiC is thus her first assignment in the cultural field.

Who is Valentina Gemignani, new chief of staff of the Ministry of Culture

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