Valeria Fedeli (born 29 July 1949) is an Italian politician, former Minister of Education, Universities and Research in the Gentiloni Cabinet.

Fedeli began her career in the 1970s as a kindergarten teacher in Milan,[1] and then went to Rome in order to work at the national secretariat of the Italian General Confederation of Labour.

In 2013, during the Silvio Berlusconi's Rubygate Scandal, Fedeli was among the founders of the feminist committee Se non ora, quando?

to denounce the "degrading model flaunted by one of the highest offices of the State, damaging the dignity of women and institutions".

[4] In 2012, she left the syndicate in order to candidate for the Senate with the Democratic Party at the 2013 elections.