Giorgio La Malfa (born 13 October 1939 in Milan)[1] is an Italian politician.

[2] He read law at the University of Pavia and the economics tripos at St John's College, Cambridge, before working as a research fellow in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he co-authored a paper on the Italian economy with Franco Modigliani.

La Malfa served as secretary of the Italian Republican Party (PRI) from 1987 to 1993, when he stood down and was indicted to face trial over a corruption scandal.

[10] La Malfa was re-elected to the Chamber in the 2008 Italian general election with The People of Freedom, but on 24 September 2009 he announced his detachment from the Berlusconi IV Cabinet through a letter published by Corriere della Sera.

[11] On 8 June 2011 he was expelled from PRI by the party's college of arbitrators, for having voted against the Berlusconi Cabinet on 14 December 2010.