Renato Brunetta (born May 15, 1950 in Venice) is an Italian economist and politician who was minister for public administration and innovation from May 2008 to November 2011 in the Berlusconi government. He is currently the head of Forza Italia's group of deputies in the Chamber of Deputies.
Son of a Hawker and the youngest of three brothers, Renato Brunetta grew up in Venice. He says that as a boy he cultivated his own initiative classical studies with excellent results, despite a social gap should seem to differentiate it from the companions of Liceo Foscarini.
He is a former member of the Italian Socialist Party, Member of the European Parliament for the North-East from 2004 to 2009 with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party, and vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.