Enrico Letta

Enrico Letta is President of the Jacques Delors Institute and former President of the Italian Council of Ministers. He has been Dean of the IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs in Madrid since October 2024.

He served as Minister for Community Policies, then Minister of Industry, Trade, and Crafts in the governments of Massimo D’Alema and Giuliano Amato. A member of the opposition (2001-2006), Letta returned to government in 2006 as Secretary of State to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers under Romano Prodi. After the general elections in April 2008, he became Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) in 2009.

Appointed Prime Minister in April 2013, he formed a grand coalition government and resigned on February 14, 2014. Between 2015 and 2021, he was Dean of the School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po Paris.

He is the author of the report on the future of the single market, “Much More than a Market,” presented to the European Council in April 2024.