Luigi Marattin

Born in Naples on 20 February 1979 of Neapolitan parents. The father, a chemical engineer of Venetian origins, and a housewife mother. Moving to Brindisi, he attended most of the elementary schools there and then, in 1988, he moved to Ferrara where he attended the Scientific High School and graduated cum laude in Economics of public administrations and international institutions at the University of Ferrara in 2001. In 2002 he attended a Master of Science in Economics at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.[1]

In May 2007 he obtained a PhD in Political Economy at the Department of Economics of the University of Siena.[2]

In October 2019 he began collaborating with the Italian newspaper "Il Riformista". Marattin write articles on political, economic and social issues.[3]

In 2020 he became an associate professor of political econom at the Department of Economic Sciences of the University of Bologna.[2]

His research interests focus on Public finance and fiscal policy transmission mechanisms.[4]

Marattin joins the liberal political current "Libertà Eguale" of the Democrats of the Left (DS), in the administrative elections of June 2004 he was elected city councilor of Ferrara, among the lists of DS until 2009. He was a member of the Budget and Control Commission on local public services.[5]

He participates in the founding of the Democratic Party on 14 October 2007 and is elected in the first National Assembly at the founding primaries, on the lists in support of Walter Veltroni's candidacy as national secretary. He was then re-elected as a member of the National Assembly in the primary on 8 December 2013 in support of Matteo Renzi's candidacy.

In October 2009 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Holding "Ferrara Servizi", the holding company for the rationalization and reorganization of the shareholdings of the municipality of Ferrara, a position he held until December 2010.[6]

From December 2010 to September 2014 he was alderman for the budget and equity investments of the municipality of Ferrara. In that period he took care of reducing current spending, municipal taxes and above all reducing the debt of the municipality by more than a third.[7]

From 2014 to 2018 he was economic advisor to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in a think tank together with Marco Fortis, Yoram Gutgeld and Tommaso Nannicini.[8] After the end of the Renzi Cabinet, he is confirmed Economic Advisor by the new Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, where he mainly deals with public finance issues with the role of member of the technical nucleus for the coordination of economic policy.

From March 2016 to June 2018 he is President of the Technical Commission on Standard Requirements.[9]

In the 2018 political elections he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies with the Democratic Party's lists in the district of Parma - Piacenza - Reggio Emilia and became Group Leader of PD in the Budget, Treasury and Planning Commission. Until March 2022 he was a member of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the banking and financial system.[10]

In September 2019, together Matteo Renzi and others, he leaves the Democratic Party and joins Italia Viva becoming vice-president of the parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies.[11]

In October 2019 he proposed a mandatory identity document for registration on social networks.[12]

In July 2020 he was elected president of the 6th Permanent Finance Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. Since December 2020 he has promoted, as President of the Finance Commission of the Chamber, a reform of the Italian tax system, 50 years after the last reform.