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Giovanni De Gennaro, (born August 14, 1948 in Reggio Calabria, Italy) is currently Chairman of the first Italian Defense Group Finmeccanica. He was Italy's former police chief and Undersecretary to the Italian Prime Minister with responsibility for information services and security. He was appointed former chief of the Italian police department and director of the information services and security department.

Career
Giovanni De Gennaro graduated in Law at Sapienza University of Rome, then he joined up the Italian Police Department. Afterwards he was moved to Rome to narcotic police department. During his career he also collaborated with Giovanni Falcone, carrying out international investigations against the Mafia. In 1984 he was in charge for the extradition issues of the informer Tommaso Buscetta from Brazil.

In 1994 he was appointed as Prefect of First Class and on 26 May 2000 as Chief of the Italian Police Department - Director General for Public Security.

In 2007 Giovanni De Gennaro became Head of Cabinet of the Italian Ministry of Interior, in the meanwhile he also held the position of Special Commissioner for an emergency crisis related to waste in Campania region. In June 2008 he has been Director General of the Department of Security Information (DIS) and in 2012 he became Undersecretary to the Italian Prime Minister with responsibility for information services and security.

In July 2013 Giovanni De Gennaro was appointed as Chairman of Finmeccanica SpA by the Board of Directors with duties regarding International Relations, Institutional Relations, External Relations and Communication, Group Security and Internal Audit.

Honors
Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic June 2, 2000

Grand Officer of Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, December 27, 1994

Commander of Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Febraury 9, 1993

FBI's Medal of Meritorious Achievement December 8, 2006