Born in Florence in 1962, he graduated in Political Science with a dissertation on the "road economy" in Dakar, which was the result of a "field research" in Senegal.

Afghanistan has been a harsh and exciting period but, above all, a school of life so important for his personal growth that he wrote some books about it.

He is now Vice-President for ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) and IDV Head of Delegation in the European Parliament.

After Antonio Di Pietro's resignation, Niccolò Rinaldi decide to run for the national secretariat of Italy of Values during the Extraordinary Congress (28–30 June 2013).

As an MEP, Niccolò Rinaldi has done a lot to spread the knowledge in Italy about the opportunities offered by European funds and how to successfully apply to the calls.

In order to do so, he put into place a lot of initiatives, such as a newsletter which gives information about the calls´ deadlines, a book about European funds which is freely downloadable from his website, the organization of many conferences on this subject for the local civil servants, and so on.

He is also very interested in the topic of "collective memory", about which organized many initiatives: for example, the production of multimedia installations on the siege of towns ("Piazza di guerra", 2003), and on the Rwandan genocide ("Silence for Rwanda", 2004) and the writing of a book on the Holocaust.

This book has been translated in French, too: Niccolò Rinaldi, Dieu, guerre et autres paysages, Paris, L´Harmanattan France, 2000, with a preface by Daniel Cohn-Bendit.

Niccolò Rinaldi, Piccola anatomia di un genocidio - Auschwitz e oltre, Florence, ed.

Niccolò Rinaldi, Una storia per numeri - La NON Europa dell'Italia, Florence, ed.

Niccolò Rinaldi, "Album d'Italia: cartoline di IdV Estero per i 150 anni dell'unità" ed.