| Claudio De Vincenti | |
| Office: | Minister for Territorial Cohesion and South |
| Primeminister: | Paolo Gentiloni |
| Term Start: | 16 December 2016 |
| Term End: | 1 June 2018 |
| Successor: | Barbara Lezzi |
| Office1: | Secretary of the Council of Ministers |
| Primeminister1: | Matteo Renzi |
| Term Start1: | 2 April 2015 |
| Term End1: | 16 December 2016 |
| Predecessor1: | Graziano Delrio |
| Successor1: | Maria Elena Boschi |
| Birth Date: | 28 October 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Rome, Italy |
| Alma Mater: | Sapienza University of Rome |
Claudio De Vincenti (born 28 October 1948) is an Italian politician, economist and university professor.[1]
De Vincenti was born in Rome in 1948. After graduating at the Sapienza University of Rome, he started his academic career. He is professor of political economy at the Faculty of Economics of the Sapienza University and collaborator of Lavoce.info.[2]
On 29 November 2011 he was appointed undersecretary to the Ministry of Economic Development of the government of Mario Monti. On 2 May 2013, he was confirmed in that role in the Letta's government.
On 28 February 2014 he became Deputy Minister for Economic Development in the government of Matteo Renzi, who later appointed him Secretary of the Council of Ministers on 2 April 2015.
On 12 December 2016, Renzi resigned as Prime Minister after having lost the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum; the new Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni appointed De Vincenti as Minister for Territorial Cohesion and South, a position that he held until 1 June 2018.[3]
In the 2018 general election, De Vincenti was initially excluded from the Democratic Party lists; however, he was later candidated for the Chamber of Deputies in the single-member constituency of Sassuolo, the district in which Gianni Cuperlo, the initial candidate of the party renounced to run. However De Vincenti was defeated by the center-right candidate Benedetta Fiorini.[4]
Since March 2021, he has been the president of Aeroporti di Roma.[5]