Yoram Gutgeld

Yoram Gutgeld is an Israeli-born Italian politician and management consultant who served in Italy's Chamber of Deputies from 2013 to 2018.

born 1959Economic adviser to Matteo RenziItalian spending review commissionerDemocratic Party member of parliament

Born: 14 December 1959, Tel Aviv
Occupation: politician, economist
Party: Democratic Party

Yoram Gutgeld was born in 1959 in Tel Aviv

Yoram Gutgeld was born in Tel Aviv on 14 December 1959. His family were Polish Jews.

He studied mathematics and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He later earned an MBA and a Ph.D. from UCLA.

In 1989 he moved to Italy to work for McKinsey & Company. In 2012 he met Matteo Renzi, then Mayor of Florence, and became his close economic adviser. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the Democratic Party after the 2013 general election.

In 2015 Renzi, then Prime Minister, named him spending review commissioner for the Italian government. In that post he generated structural savings of over 33 billion euros. New Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte removed him in 2018, and the Democratic Party left him off its list for the 2018 election.