Gad Eitan Lerner (Hebrew: גד איתן לרנר; born 7 December 1954) is an Italian journalist, writer and TV presenter.

His father was the son of Ashkenazi parents who hailed from the Galician village of Drohobych, once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but now located in Ukraine.

[2][3][4] Along with his resignation, he revealed that a politician from National Alliance, Mario Landolfi, who also was the president of the parliamentary commission of vigilance regarding the public TV broadcasting service, asked him to favour an acquaintance of his in the TG1.

[5] In 2001, Lerner participated in the foundation of a new Italian TV channel La7, where he was the first director of the news program TG La7 for a short time and after he hosted a weekly talk show L'Infedele until 2012.

[6] He left La7 in 2013[7] and has since curated and developed other TV programs, including the talk show Fischia il vento[8] for La EFFE and a documentary series Operai[9][10] for RAI 3.