Oskar Peterlini

Oskar Peterlini (born 19 September 1950) is an Italian political writer and Lecturer at the Free University of Bozen Bolzano.

Peterlini was born on 19 September 1950 in Bozen-Bolzano, South Tyrol, and lives today in the village of Branzoll-Bronzolo.

He achieved his PhD with a Thesis about the Italian Constitutional reform and its impact on the special autonomies and with a research project about the electoral systems and their effect on linguistic minorities.In 2023, he achieved the Habilitation in Political Science with a thesis submitted to the University of Rostock on the topic of "Autonomy as a peace solution".

His most important work was the creation of a complementary pension system called Pens Plan for inhabitants of the[3] Trentino South-Tyrol Region, whose activities he developed and coordinated starting from 1989.In 2001, he was elected to the Italian Senate[4] as representative of the Südtiroler Volkspartei in an electoral cooperation with the Ulivo party.

Oskar Peterlini is the projector of the complementary pension system in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region named Pensplan.