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{{Short description|Italian politician and engineer}}

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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Antonio Ruberti
| image               = Antonio Ruberti 1993.jpg
| caption             = Ruberti in 1993
| office              = [[Vice-President of the European Commission]]
| term_start          = 5 January 1993
| term_end            = 23 January 1995
| president           = [[Jacques Delors]]
| alongside           = [[Martin Bangemann]], [[Leon Brittan]], [[Henning Christophersen]], [[Manuel Marín]] and [[Karel Van Miert]]
| office1             = [[European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation|European Commissioner for Science, Research, Technological Development]], [[European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth|Education, Training and Youth]]
| term_start1         = 5 January 1993
| term_end1           = 23 January 1995
| president1          = Jacques Delors
| predecessor1        = [[Filippo Maria Pandolfi]]
| successor1          = [[Édith Cresson]]
| office2             = Minister of University and Scientific Research of Italy
| term_start2         = 29 July 1987
| term_end2           = 28 June 1992
| primeminister2      = {{plainlist|
* [[Giovanni Goria]]
* [[Ciriaco De Mita]]
* [[Giulio Andreotti]]
}}
| predecessor2        = [[Luigi Granelli]]
| successor2          = [[Alessandro Fontana]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1927|1|24|df=yes}}
| birth_place         = [[Aversa]], [[Fascist Italy|Italy]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2000|9|4|1927|1|24|df=yes}}
| death_place         = [[Rome]], Italy
| party               = [[Italian Socialist Party]]
}}
'''Antonio Ruberti''' (24 January 1927 &ndash; 4 September 2000) was an Italian politician and engineer. He was a member of the Italian Government and a [[European Commission]]er as well as a professor of engineering at [[La Sapienza University]].

==Biography==
Antonio Ruberti was born in [[Aversa]] in the [[province of Caserta]], Campania.

He trained as an engineer and taught control engineering and [[systems theory]] as the first head of the Department of Science and Engineering of La Sapienza university in Rome, a university of which he was later [[Rector (academia)#Italy|Rector]].

In 1987, he joined the Italian government as Minister for the Coordination of Scientific and Technological Research. He held this position for five years. In 1992 Ruberti was elected to the [[Chamber of Deputies (Italy)|Chamber of Deputies]] among the ranks of the [[Italian Socialist Party]], where he sat until 1993, when he was appointed by the Italian government to the [[Delors Commission|European Commission chaired by Delors]] with the portfolio covering science, research, technological development and education. Ruberti was only a commissioner until 1995 but during this short mandate, he launched a series of new initiatives including the [[Socrates programme|Socrates]] and [[Leonardo da Vinci programme|Leonardo da Vinci]] programmes, the European Week of Scientific Culture, and the [[European Science and Technology Forum]]. After leaving the commission, Ruberti was once more elected to the Chamber of Deputies, where he chaired the Committee for European Union Policies.

He died in Rome in 2000.

==References==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121024105501/http://ec.europa.eu/research/ruberti.html EU obituary]
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