Simone Baldelli (1972), current vice-president of the House of Deputies, graduate in Political Science, journalist, satirist and adjunct professor of Parliamentary Law at the UNITELMA University, Sapienza, Rome. He has authored several publications. He was a parliamentary aide, a regional councillor and the leader of the Youth department of Forza Italia. Member of Parliament since 2006, he has been the whip of the parliamentary group of Forza Italia and Popolo della Libertà. Besides his parliamentary and political activities to which he is committed full time, he is involved in artistic productions in the realms of photography, music, painting and theatre.