This is a list of the Italian Ministers of Education, University and Research, a position which led the Ministry of Education, University and Research. The last minister was Lorenzo Fioramonti of the Five Star Movement, who was in office until December 2019, when, after his resignation, the ministry was split between Public Education and University and Research.[1]
| width=1% rowspan=2 | width=1% rowspan=2 | Portrait | width=15% rowspan=2 | Name (Born–Died) | width=30% colspan=3 | Term of office | width=15% rowspan=2 colspan=2 | Party | width=10% rowspan=2 | Government | width=1% rowspan=2 | ||
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| width=11% | Took office | width=11% | Left office | width=8% | Time in office | ||||||||
| 1 | Luigi Berlinguer | 17 May 1996 | 21 October 1998 | Democratic Party of the Left | Prodi I | ||||||||
| Office not in use | 1998–2001 | D'Alema I·II Amato II | |||||||||||
| 2 | Letizia Moratti | 11 June 2001 | 17 May 2006 | Forza Italia | Berlusconi II·III | ||||||||
| Office not in use | 2006–2008 | Prodi II | |||||||||||
| 3 | Mariastella Gelmini | 8 May 2008 | 16 November 2011 | The People of Freedom | Berlusconi IV | ||||||||
| 4 | Francesco Profumo | 16 November 2011 | 28 April 2013 | Independent | Monti | ||||||||
| 5 | Maria Chiara Carrozza | 28 April 2013 | 22 February 2014 | Democratic Party | Letta | ||||||||
| 6 | Stefania Giannini | 22 February 2014 | 12 December 2016 | Civic Choice / Democratic Party | Renzi | ||||||||
| 7 | Valeria Fedeli | 12 December 2016 | 1 June 2018 | Democratic Party | Gentiloni | ||||||||
| 8 | Marco Bussetti | 1 June 2018 | 5 September 2019 | Independent | Conte I | ||||||||
| 9 | Lorenzo Fioramonti | 5 September 2019 | 25 December 2019 | Five Star Movement | Conte II | ||||||||
| 10 | Giuseppe Conte | 25 December 2019 | 10 January 2020 | Independent | |||||||||
| Office not in use | 2019–present | Conte II Draghi | |||||||||||