BRUNO CALZIA

Biography

Biography

  • Bruno Calzia is an Italian business lawyer, expert in commercial and corporate law. He has a very good knowledge of European Union matters and relations with the EU Institutions in Brussels, with particular reference to agrifood issues.
  • He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Rome. He studied in the USA and received a Master degree of Comparative Jurisprudence from the University of Texas at Austin and prepared the exam for admission to the Bar in New York.
  • He carried out an internship at the Directorate General of Agriculture of the European Commission in Brussels and attended the Academy of International Law of the Hague in the Netherlands.
  • He has been a lawyer in Italy since 1985 and registered with the Register of Statutory Auditors (former accountants) since 1995.
  • Before starting his career as a lawyer, he worked in the Legal Department of IBM Italy in Milan and with the Law Firm of Gianni, Origoni and Tonucci in Milan. From 1999 to 2003, he worked in Ernst & Young on extraordinary corporate operations and international corporate matters.
  • Bruno, for over twenty years, has been a member of several Statutory Auditors companies, member of the BoD and Surveillance Bodies 231 in Italian and multinational companies. He recently participated in the stock exchange listing process of a company where he was, for years, the chairman of the board of statutory auditors. He is in the Supervisory Committee of an Extraordinary Administration of an important company in economic crisis. For ten years, he has been Secretary General of a Foundation dealing with agrifood issues in Italy and abroad.
  • Since 2009 he has been in charge for the management of the parliamentary assistants in Brussels and in Italy of some Italian Members of the European Parliament. He regularly attends Brussels and the EU Institutions since 1991. He was appointed in the early nineties by the EC Commission DG SMEs as its correspondent in Italy.
  • Bruno was appointed in 2006-2008 as special economic adviser to the Italian Minister of Agriculture and, previously, he was a member of the technical secretariat of the Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade.
  • He was responsible, from 2002 onwards, for various operational projects of technical assistance to the Ministry of Foreign Trade, the Ministry of the Environment and the Region of Campania.
  • He has lectured on corporate, european and international issues for various universities, organizations, companies, industrial associations and Italian chambers of commerce.
  • He is the author of numerous publications with Il Sole 24 Ore (books and newspaper) and with Confindustria (the Italian Association of Industries).
  • He served in the military as Lieutenant of the Italian paratroopers.
  • Bruno lives in Rome. He is married and has two children.
  • He speaks Italian and English.
  • Bruno Calzia is an Italian business lawyer, expert in commercial and corporate law. He has a very good knowledge of European Union matters and relations with the EU Institutions in Brussels, with particular reference to agrifood issues.
  • He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Rome. He studied in the USA and received a Master degree of Comparative Jurisprudence from the University of Texas at Austin and prepared the exam for admission to the Bar in New York.
  • He carried out an internship at the Directorate General of Agriculture of the European Commission in Brussels and attended the Academy of International Law of the Hague in the Netherlands.
  • He has been a lawyer in Italy since 1985 and registered with the Register of Statutory Auditors (former accountants) since 1995.
  • Before starting his career as a lawyer, he worked in the Legal Department of IBM Italy in Milan and with the Law Firm of Gianni, Origoni and Tonucci in Milan. From 1999 to 2003, he worked in Ernst & Young on extraordinary corporate operations and international corporate matters.
  • Bruno, for over twenty years, has been a member of several Statutory Auditors companies, member of the BoD and Surveillance Bodies 231 in Italian and multinational companies. He recently participated in the stock exchange listing process of a company where he was, for years, the chairman of the board of statutory auditors. He is in the Supervisory Committee of an Extraordinary Administration of an important company in economic crisis. For ten years, he has been Secretary General of a Foundation dealing with agrifood issues in Italy and abroad.
  • Since 2009 he has been in charge for the management of the parliamentary assistants in Brussels and in Italy of some Italian Members of the European Parliament. He regularly attends Brussels and the EU Institutions since 1991. He was appointed in the early nineties by the EC Commission DG SMEs as its correspondent in Italy.
  • Bruno was appointed in 2006-2008 as special economic adviser to the Italian Minister of Agriculture and, previously, he was a member of the technical secretariat of the Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade.
  • He was responsible, from 2002 onwards, for various operational projects of technical assistance to the Ministry of Foreign Trade, the Ministry of the Environment and the Region of Campania.
  • He has lectured on corporate, european and international issues for various universities, organizations, companies, industrial associations and Italian chambers of commerce.
  • He is the author of numerous publications with Il Sole 24 Ore (books and newspaper) and with Confindustria (the Italian Association of Industries).
  • He served in the military as Lieutenant of the Italian paratroopers.
  • Bruno lives in Rome. He is married and has two children.
  • He speaks Italian and English.