Niccolò Rinaldi

In 2009 he was elected at the European Parliament with Italia dei Valori as independent. He is member of the ALDE group, of which he has been, since 2000 and until the election, general secretary adjunct. He is currently Vice President for the group. He is also head of delegation for IDV (Italia dei Valori) at the European Parliament.

Career

Born in Florence in 1962, he graduated in Political Science with a dissertation on the "road economy" in Dakar, which was the result of a "field research" in Senegal. He was responsible for the information at the UN in Afghanistan. He lived in Peshawar (Pakistan's turbulent city on the border with Afghanistan), Kabul and in the rest of the country. Afghanistan has been a harsh and exciting period but, above all, a school of life so important for his personal growth that he wrote some books about it. In 1991 he left the United Nations and he started working at the European Parliament, as political adviser. In 2000 he became one of the Secretaries General of the Parliament. In 2009 he was elected MEP with Italia dei Valori as independent. He is now Vice-President for ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) and IDV Head of Delegation in the European Parliament.