Degree in Law, Lawyer, mother of Emma.
In 1998, elected in the City Council of Desenzano del Garda for Forza Italia.
From 2002 Councilor for the Territory in Brescia Province and from 2004 for Agriculture.
In 2005 she becomes Member of Lombardia Regional Council and Regional Coordinator of Forza Italia.
Member of the Parliament from 2006, she was Minister of Education, University and Research in Berlusconi IV Government and appointed Vice Vicar Chief of the Movement Forza Italia in the Chamber of Deputies in the XVII Legislature.
From 2013 she is Lombardy coordinator of Forza Italia. In October 2015 she is elected President of Garda Community and in June 2016 elected member of the City Council of Milan.
Parliamentary Offices – Chamber of Deputies.
During the XVII Legislature, she has been member of the following permanent commissions:
I Commission (Constitutional Affairs).
X Commission (Productive Activities, Commerce and Tourism).
XII Commission (Social Affairs).
Moreover she has been member of the Parliament Commission for the General Orientation and Surveillance of Radio & TV Services and of the Parliament Commission enquiring on the security conditions and the degree of decay of cities and their suburbs.
In the current Legislature, instead, she is member of the III Permanent Commission (Foreign and Communitarian Affairs).