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Agostino Gambino | |
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Minister of Communications | |
In office 17 January 1995 – 17 May 1996 | |
President | Lamberto Dini |
Preceded by | Giuseppe Tatarella |
Succeeded by | Antonio Maccanico |
Personal details | |
Born | 6 July 1933 Genoa, Italy |
Died | 2 October 2021 Rome, Italy | (aged 88)
Political party | Independent |
Agostino Gambino (6 July 1933 – 2 October 2021) was an Italian jurist and politician.[1] He served as Minister of Communications[2] and President of the Associazione Internazionale di Diritto delle Assicurazioni .
Gambino was Minister of Communications under the leadership of Lamberto Dini from 17 January 1995 to 17 May 1996.[3] He held a Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.[4]
A graduate of Heidelberg University and the University of Hamburg, he became a lawyer in 1958. He became a professor in 1965 and taught commercial and bankruptcy law at the University of Sassari, the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and the Sapienza University of Rome.[5] He became a professor emeritus in 2005.
Gambino became co-director of the Rivista di diritto commerciale[6] and President of the Associazione Internazionale di Diritto delle Assicurazioni.[7] He served on the board of directors of the Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura, MEIE , and Fata Assicurazioni . He was government commissioner of Consorzi agrari d'Italia . Following the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, he was appointed by the Vatican and Italian governments to co-chair the international commission to manage relations between the bank and the Institute for the Works of Religion.[8]
Gambino also worked for the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of State Participations , and the Ministry of State Participations. In 1994, he became a part of a government commission nicknamed the "three wise men". The commission was placed in charge of mitigating conflicts between the private sector and properties of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.[9]
Agostino Gambino died in Rome on 2 October 2021 at the age of 88.[10]