Yoram Gutgeld

Itzhak Yoram Gutgeld (born 14 December 1959) is an Israeli-born Italian politician and management consultant. He is a member of the Democratic Party.[1]

Yoram Gutgeld
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
15 March 2013 – 18 March 2018
Personal details
Born (1959-12-14) 14 December 1959
Tel Aviv, Israel
Political partyDemocratic Party

Biography

Yoram Gutgeld was born in Tel Aviv from a family of Polish Jews. He graduated in mathematics and philosophy in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received an MBA and Ph.D. from UCLA. In 1989 he went to Italy working for McKinsey & Company.

In 2012 Gutgeld met Matteo Renzi, at that time Mayor of Florence and soon became his close economic advisor.[2]

After the 2013 general election he was elected in the Chamber of Deputies with the Democratic Party. In 2015 he was appointed as spending review commissioner for the Italian government by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. In that role he generated structural saving of over 33 billion euros. He was removed from his post in 2018 by new Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.

He was excluded by the Democratic Party's list at the 2018 general election.

Other activities

References
  1. Gutgeld, da Israele a Montecitorio “Ecco le ricette della Renzinomics”
  2. Meet the Israeli economics expert who could become Italy’s Stanley Fischer
  3. Membership Trilateral Commission.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.