Pietro Ichino

Pietro Ichino (born 22 March 1949) is an Italian politician and professor of labor law at the University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano). From 1979 to 1983, he was an independent left-wing MP belonging to the ranks of the Italian Communist Party. In 2008, he was elected senator for the Democratic Party in the district of Lombardy. Born in Milan, he is brother of the economist Andrea Ichino. He has been married since 1973 to Costanza Rossi, with whom he has had two daughters. After graduating in law, he was a trade union leader, from 1969 to 1972, of the Fiom – Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) trade union. After his military service, he was Head of Legal Services of the Labor Chamber of Milan from 1973 to 1979. He has said that it was his meeting with Don Lorenzo Milani that made him decide to study law and to commit himself to the trade union movement. Since 1970 has been a journalist and since 1997 he has been a columnist for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. From April 1998 to March 1999, he collaborated with the then Communist Party newspaper “l'Unità”. In 1975 he was admitted to the Milan Bar. It was during the VIII Legislature of the Italian Republic, from 1979 to 1983, that he was elected as an independent left-wing MP belonging to the ranks of the Italian Communist Party. He was a Researcher from 1983 to 1986 in the University of Milan (Università statale di Milano). Subsequently, he became an Associate (1986–1989) and Full (1989–1991) Professor of Labor Law at the University of Cagliari. Since 1991 he has been Full Professor of Labor Law at University of Milan (Università Statale di Milano). In 1985 he was appointed coordinator of the "Italian Journal of Labor Law," of which he has been deputy editor since 1991 and editor in chief since 2002. Since 2003 he has been a member of the executive board of the law journal "Civil Justice". On 2 June 2006, the president of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi awarded him the title of "commendatore" for the contribution given by his studies and teaching.