Maurizio Martina has been Deputy Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO), with headquarters in Rome since December 2023.
Previously Assistant Director-General of FAO from 2021 to 2023.
He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Democratic Party.
From 2014 to 2018, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies, with a mandate for Expo 2015. He was
Deputy Secretary, and Secretary of the Democratic Party in 2018.
In 2013, he was appointed Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies.
From 2010 to 2013 he held the position of Councilor in the Lombardy Regional Council.
In 2020, he published the book “Cibo Sovrano” with Mondadori, and in 2018 “Dalla Terra all’Italia”.
Mr Martina was born in 1978 in Calcinate, in the province of Bergamo, and graduated in Political Sciences from
the University of Macerata.