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  • Mr Mattia Fantinati
    Member of the House of Representatives, Italian Parliament
    newly elected MAG Member

ABOUT

The Rt. Hon. Mattia Fantinati is currently serving as a Member of the House of Representatives (“Camera dei Deputati”) within the Italian Parliament. His main areas of interest are Digital Transformation in Government and Innovation Management in Public and Private Organizations.
In 2019 he was appointed Special Advisor to the Minister of Digitalization and Innovation. For the Italian Government he follows IGF (Internet Governance Forum) initiatives and he is member of Italy IGF 2020 Program Committee and supporting the activation of “IGF Italia”. He was involved in to the organization of EuroDIG 2020.
At the United Nations Mattia represents Italian Government at the roundtables of the HLPDC (High Level Panel of Digital Cooperation).

He has been appointed by United Nation Secretary-General member of MAG (MultistakeholderAdvisory Group) which its purpose is to advise the Secretary-General on the IGF (Internet Governance Forum).
From 2018 to 2019 Mattia participated in the First Cabinet of Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, acting as Undersecretary of State for Public Administration in the Office of the Prime Minister.
As a Member of Parliament, Mattia sits on two Permanent Commissions of the Italian House of Representatives: Foreign Affairs and Defence and besides on the commission of Artificial Intelligence of Italian Parliament.
Mattia is a member of OECD Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence.