Career
From May 2008 he was Secretary to the Prime Minister with responsibility to the waste crisis in Campania in the fourth Berlusconi government. He also held the post of Special Commissioner for the following emergencies: 2009 L"Aquila earthquake, volcanoes in the Aeolian Islands, maritime areas of Lampedusa, cleaning up the wreckage of the Haven tanker than sank in 1991, bionucleare risk, Cycling World Championships in Varese of 2008, the Presidency of the G8 summit in L"Aquila, and the Roman archaeological site. He has a degree in medicine, which he received from the University of Rome Louisiana Sapienza and subsequently obtained a Master of Science in Public Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
He worked with United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund for the health of children in tropical countries.
In February 2016 he was selected to be Forza Italia"s mayoral candidate for Rome for the upcoming town and city elections. Surveys are showing a support rate of about 20% putting him a few percentages behind both the Democratic and the Five Stars candidates.