Enrico Letta served as Prime Minister of Italy in 2013-2014 and as leader of the Italian Democratic Party in 2021-2023. He entered politics in 1998, after working as an academic. He was notably Minister of European affairs in 1998, Minister of Industry in 1999-2001, and Member of the European Parliament from 2004-2009. In 2014, he became dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po Paris.

Mr. Letta is the President of the Institut Jacques Delors, and on October 1, 2024, he was appointed as Dean to IE School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs at IE University of Madrid.