Tito Tettamanti, born in Lugano, Switzerland, the son of a Swiss banker, studied at the Faculty of Law at Berne University where he graduated in 1953 at the age of 23.

He was an activist of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (Partito Popolare Democratico) and was elected as a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Ticino.

In Spring 2010 Tettamanti acquired the Basler Zeitung, the main newspaper of the northwestern part of Switzerland, whose control was held, with a short interruption,[6] until the final sale in 2014.

[9] Since 2008 Tettamanti has been Chairman of the Fidinam Foundation,[10] a nonprofit entity whose aim is to support initiatives in the fields of education, research, health, and various projects with social and economic needs background in Ticino and other regions of Switzerland.

Passionate and thorough scholar of political cultural and international economic issues, he regularly writes as a columnist on the Corriere del Ticino and Die Zeit,[12] dealing often with socio-economic topics.

In 2019 he wrote together with Alfonso Tuor the book named "T contro T - Disuguaglianza, disagio, democrazia" published in Italian by Edizioni San Giorgio, Muzzano (ISBN 978-88-90507-03-8).