Niccolò Rinaldi

Niccolò Rinaldi MEP
Niccolò Rinaldi
Vice President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group
In office 2009 – 2014
Personal details
Born	December 3, 1962 Firenze
Nationality	Italian
Political party	Italia dei Valori / ELDR
Occupation	Politician
Website	http://www.niccolorinaldi.it

In 2009 he was elected at the European Parliament with Italia dei Valori. 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, a school of life - a period in which he wrote some books ("Islam, guerra e dintorni", published by L'Harmattan (Italy) with a foreword by Jas Gawronski and translated into French under the title of "Dieu, guerre and autres paysages" with a foreword by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, "Droga di Dio", published by L'Ancora, the tale "Firenze, Herat e la forza di Kabul", published in "Imago Mundi: Piazza di Guerra", edizioni Festina Lente). 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. He also managed the implementation of various projects with multimedia installations in Florence for the collective memory about the blockade of town (e.g. "Piazza di guerra", 2003), the Rwandan genocide ("Silence for Rwanda", 2004), the Holocaust ("Anatomy of a Genocide", 2009, which has been recently published by Giuntina with the title "Piccola anatomia di un genocidio - Auschwitz e oltre). In 2009 he was elected MEP with Italia dei Valori . He is now Vice-President for ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) and IDV Head of Delegation in the European Parliament.

Publications

Islam, guerra e dintorni. Viaggio in Afghanistan, 1997, ed.L'Harmattan Italia

L'invenzione dell'Africa. Un viaggio, un dizionario, 2005, ed.La Meridiana

Piccola anatomia di un genocidio - Auschwitz e oltre, 2009, ed.Giuntina

L'Europa in 12 poeti di libertà, 2010, ed. Festina Lente

Dei finanziamenti europei: istruzioni per l'uso, 2010, ed. Festina Lente

Una storia per numeri - La NON Europa dell'Italia, 2010, ed. Festina Lente

Related Voices

• European Parliament
• Italia dei Valori

External links

• Website
• EP

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Name	Niccolò, Rinaldi
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Date of birth	1962
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