Background
Renzo Tondo is married to Anna, with whom he had three children: Julia, Simon and Matthew.
Renzo Tondo is married to Anna, with whom he had three children: Julia, Simon and Matthew.
He Graduated from High School of Tolmezzo.
He attended courses of Political Sciences in Trieste while working in the family business and graduated at 23. Being very young he Started his political activity. At 19 has already been a councilor of Tolmezzo, a town of which he became mayor in 1990.
He became mayor of Tolmezzo in 1990. Eight years later, in 1998, the election of the regional council of Friuli Venezia Giulia takes place and he is appointed commissioner, first for Work and then for Health.
In 2001 he became President of the region until the end of the legislature in 2003. Member of the deputies, he has always been very attached to their region, defending its demands instances at the Chamber of Deputies.
Candidate from the center-right coalition made up of the PDL, the Northern League, UDC and the Retired for the post of the President of the Region, he was elected President in the elections of 13 and 14 April 2008. He Continues to take care of the hotel company of family, which he leads has led for over twenty years. he is the president of the Italian Federation of Dama and coordination of national sports federations associated with the CONI.
Since his brother John adopted two Indian children, Renzo Tondo himself becomes interested of in international adoptions, working with the International Adoption Association and making numerous trips to India and Guatemala to facilitate the arrival in Italy of abandoned children.
In 1986, after returning from his first flight to Delhi, he collected his travel experiences in the book "Chapati, ten days in Delhi."