| Edoardo Rixi | |
| Office: | Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility |
| Term Start: | 31 October 2022 |
| Office1: | Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport |
| Term Start1: | 11 June 2018 |
| Term End1: | 30 May 2019 |
| Office2: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
| Term Start2: | 13 October 2022 |
| Term Start3: | 23 March 2018 |
| Term End3: | 12 October 2022 |
| Constituency3: | Liguria |
| Term Start4: | 29 April 2008 |
| Term End4: | 8 June 2010[1] |
| Constituency4: | Liguria |
| Birth Date: | 8 June 1974 |
| Birth Place: | Genoa |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Party: | Lega Nord (2002–2020) Lega (since 2020) |
| Children: | 1 |
| Alma Mater: | University of Genoa |
| Education: | Bocconi University |
| Occupation: | Politician |
Edoardo Rixi (born 8 June 1974, in Genoa) is an Italian politician.
In 2000, Rixi graduated in economics from the University of Genoa with the thesis:"Dalla crisi degli anni '90 alla moneta unica". In 2014 he attended the Master of Public Administration (SDA Bocconi).
On 11 June 2018 Edoardo Rixi was appointed Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport of the Conte Cabinet.[2]
In April 2015 he was investigated for unreasonable public money spending,[3] [4] together with other regional councilors, as part of the survey on "Spese pazze" in the Liguria Region from 2010 to 2012. At the beginning of February 2016 he was sent to trial.
On 30 May 2019 the Court of Genoa sentenced him to three years and five months of imprisonment and the perpetual ban from public offices for the accusation of embezzlement and forgery and € 56,807 was confiscated; the same day Rixi resigned as deputy minister.[5] On 18 March 2021 he was acquitted on appeal because the "fact does not exist".[6] He was definitively acquitted on 15 March 2022.[7]