Gennaro Sangiuliano

Gennaro Sangiuliano was born in Naples in 1962 and graduated in Law from Federico II University. He holds a PhD in Law and Economics with honours from the same university, his thesis was published. He has a Master’s Degree in European Private Law with an honours rating of 100/100 and a diploma from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Defence (IASD). From 1999 to 2001 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Roma newspaper  in Naples, before becoming Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Libero newspaper. He has also worked with other newspapers, namely, Il Foglio, l'Espresso and Il Sole 24 Ore. He held the position of Director, School of Journalism at the University of Salerno and is currently Professor of Economic History at LUISS Guido Carli and of Information Law at LUMSA in Rome. ​​

In 2003 he joined the Italian national broadcaster, RAI, and became Head of Service at TGR Naples. In 2004 he moved to Rome to work at the TGR National Agency, where he became Deputy Editor-in-Chief in 2005 and Editor-in-Chief in 2007. In 2009 he moved to Tg1, becoming Deputy Director, before taking on the role of Director of Tg2 from November 2018 until October 2022.

Sangiuliano is the author of numerous historical and scientific papers, including the legal-economic handbook New Media Theory and Techniques; Economia della comunicazione in the Treccani encyclopedia; Giuseppe Prezzolini: l'anarchico conservatore (Giuseppe Prezzolini: Conservative Anarchist), a biography of the la Voce founder; the historical essay Scacco allo Zar. 1908-1910: Lenin a Capri, genesi della Rivoluzione (Checkmate to the Tsar: 1908–1910: from Lenin to Capri, the genesis of the revolution); as well as biographies of Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.  ​

He has been the Minister of Culture since 22 October 2022.