Gianni Francesco Mattioli

{{short description|Italian politician}}

{{BLP sources|date=May 2019}}

{{Infobox officeholder

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| name = Gianni Francesco Mattioli

| image = Gianni Francesco Mattioli (XIII).jpg

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| office = Minister of Community Policies

| primeminister = Giuliano Amato

| term_start = 21 October 1998

| term_end = 22 December 1999

| predecessor = Patrizia Toia

| successor = Rocco Buttiglione

| office1 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies

| term_start1 = 2 July 1987

| term_end1 = 29 May 2001

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1940|1|29}}

| birth_place = Genoa, Italy

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| nationality = Italian

| profession = Politician, University professor

| party = Greens {{small|(1987–1994, 1996–2009)}}
AD {{small|(1994–1996)}}
SEL {{small|(since 2009)}}

| alma_mater = Sapienza University of Rome

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Gianni Francesco Mattioli (born 29 January 1940 in Genoa) is an Italian politician and university professor.

Biography

Mattioli graduated with a def in physics in 1964 with a thesis on the diffusion of high energy particles. In 1973 he became a professor of the same subject at La Sapienza University of Rome, conducting research in the field of quantum mechanics and rational mechanics.Gianluca Senatore, [https://books.google.com/books?id=_2miDAAAQBAJ&dq=gianni+francesco+mattioli+laureato+universit%C3%A0&pg=PA123 Modernità e sostenibilità in Russia: Alle origini dell'ambientalismo scientifico], pag. 123

In 1978, Mattioli founded the "Committee for the Control of Energy Choices", together with Massimo Scalia. He began his anti-nuclear commitment in the International Fellowship of Reconciliation in Rome. In 1981, he founded the magazine Quale energia?, of which he was director for six years.

In 1987, Mattioli was elected deputy among the ranks of the Greens, of which he was also president from 1988 to 1992. He was re-elected deputy also in 1992, 1994 and 1996. In 1996, he was appointed undersecretary of public works in the first Prodi government; in those years, he joined the executive committee of Legambiente. From 2000 to 2001, he also served as Minister of Community Policies in the Amato II Cabinet, after his party colleague, Edo Ronchi, refused this post.

On 20 December 2009, Mattioli joined the national coordination of Left Ecology Freedom, of which he later became responsible for environmental policies.

Honours and awards

  • {{Flag|Italy}}: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2001)[https://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/45293 MATTIOLI Prof. Gianni Francesco Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana]

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