Irene Tinagli

Irene Tinagli is an economist and Member of the European Parliament. She graduated in Economics and Management from Bocconi University in Milan and went on to obtain a Master of Science and a PhD in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, specialising in the economics of innovation. She has taught Management and Organisational Design at Carlos III University in Madrid.

In 2013, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, where she worked on issues relating to employment and economic and regional development. In 2019, she was elected to the European Parliament in the North-West Italy constituency, receiving the highest number of votes of any woman in Northern Italy, and was re-elected in 2024. From 2021 to March 2023, she served as Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party.

During the ninth European Parliament (2019–2024), she chaired the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON). She currently chairs the Special Committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union (HOUS) and follows the work of the Committees on Economic Affairs (ECON), Industry (ITRE) and the Environment (ENVI).
She was a columnist for La Stampa and has published three books: Talento da Svendere (Einaudi, 2008), Un Futuro a Colori (Rizzoli, 2014) and La Grande Ignoranza (Rizzoli, 2019)