Piantedosi Matteo

Born in Naples on April 20, 1963, he is married and has two daughters. Graduated in law and qualified to practice as a lawyer, he joined the civil administration of the Interior Ministry in April 1989 and was assigned to the Prefecture of Bologna, where he served for eight years as Chief of Staff.

In February 2007, he was appointed Deputy Prefect in the same prefecture until 2009, when he was called to the Ministry of the Interior to lead the Parliamentary Relations Office within the Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Department.

In 2011, he was entrusted with the role of Chief of Staff of the Head of the Department for Personnel Policies of the Civil Administration and for instrumental and financial resources.

Appointed Prefect on August 3, 2011, he was assigned to Lodi.

From January 2012, he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff of the Minister of the Interior and from June 2012 Deputy Chief of Staff (Vicario).

On November 16, 2012, the Council of Ministers appointed him Deputy Director General of Public Security for the coordination and planning of police forces.

From April 2014 to May 2017, he also served as Managing Authority of the National Operational Program “Security for Development – Convergence Objective 2007/2013,” of the National Operational Program “Legality 2014/2020,” and of the Complementary Operational Program for the 2014/2020 planning period, as well as Responsible Authority for the “European Fund for External Borders 2007/2013” and the “Internal Security Fund 2014/2020.”

He chaired the consultative commission for the implementation of the European Single Emergency Number service according to the model of a single national response center.

From May 15, 2017, to June 10, 2018, he served as Prefect of Bologna.

On June 11, 2018, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Minister of the Interior.

From August 17, 2020, to October 22, 2022, he served as Prefect of Rome.

Since October 22, 2022, he has been Minister of the Interior in the Meloni Government.