Gabriele Albertini

Gabriele Albertini (born 6 July 1950) is an Italian politician.

He was the Manager of Albertini Cesare Spa, a company working in the aluminium pressure die casting sector, from 1974 to 1997.

In 1987 he became a delegate for small business on the executive board of Federmeccanica (the Italian Mechanical Engineers' Trade Union Federation) and in 1996 he became its Chairman (until 1997).

In 1997 he was elected Mayor of Milan, with the support of the centre-right coalition, and held office until 2006.

In 2013 he ran for President of the Lombardy region, supported by a centrist coalition, but he got only 4.12% of the vote.