Pina Picierno | |
Office: | Vice-President of the European Parliament |
Term Start: | 18 January 2022 |
Alongside: | See List |
President: | Roberta Metsola |
Office1: | Member of the European Parliament for Italy |
Term Start1: | 2014 |
Office2: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start2: | 2008 |
Term End2: | 2014 |
Birth Date: | 10 May 1981 |
Birth Place: | Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy |
Party: | Italy |
Alma Mater: | University of Salerno |
Giuseppina "Pina" Picierno (born 10 May 1981) is an Italian politician. Born in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, she is a member of the Democratic Party who has been serving in the European Parliament since 2014.[1]
Picierno served two terms as a member of the Italian Parliament between 2008 and 2014.[2]
Picierno was selected to head her party's regional list in the 2014 European elections.[3] In parliament, she is a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group. She served on the Committee on Budgets from 2014 to 2017[4] and currently serves on the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.[5] In addition to her committee assignments, she served as vice-chairwoman of the parliament's delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee from 2014 to 2019.
Picierno was elected as Vice-President on 18 January 2022.[6]
Picierno is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Cancer,[7] the European Parliament Intergroup on Fighting against Poverty,[8] the European Parliament Intergroup on Integrity (Transparency, Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime)[9] and of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Western Sahara.[10]
In 2019, Picierno was the recipient of the Justice & Gender Equality Award at The Parliament Magazines annual MEP Awards.[11]