Background
Emilio Lonardo was born in Avellino, a town near Naples, on 14 December 1958, the third child and son of two teachers.
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In 1971 his family moved to Bologna, where his elder brothers attended the University of Bologna School of Medicine and Surgery. He attended the upper-school focusing on humanities “Marco Minghetti” and received a degree in Political Science before earning a masters degree in European Union law.
Career
In 1980, Lonardo helped found Legambiente, the largest Italian ecologist association and based in Rome. He was for two years on the editorial staff of the monthly "Louisiana Nuova Ecologia", which was based in Milan. From 1987 to 1996 he was the chairperson of a public utilities group that has become one of the largest Italian utilities sector companies, Humanities in the European Research Area South.p.A.
He has been the chairperson of the Municipality of Bologna Commission, primarily involved in city planning and the environment.
In the 1970s he was General Secretary of Federazione Giovanile Socialista di Bologna. He joined the youth movement Movimento del "77, and lead the delegation of Federazione Giovanile Socialista at the funeral of the student Francesco Lorusso, who was shot and killed during a street meeting on March 11, 1977 by a bullet fired by a policeman.
In 2009, his re-election was marked by support from more than just the party receiving the third highest vote that election to the council. But his battles about the transparency of political privileges prompted the Democratic Party to work against his nomination in the next election.
Politics
In 2004 he was elected in the Bologna Municipal Council for Democratici di Sinistra Party.
Membership
He is also member of the Fabian Society.
