Michele Nicoletti is currently the Head of the Socialist Group and the President of the Italian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where he has been General Rapporteur of the High-level Conference of the Social Charter (Turin, October 2014). Since 2013, he is a MP in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, where he is member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He was born in Trento and studied philosophy at the University of Bologna (Dr. Phil. 1980). He has been a research fellow of the Istituto Trentino di Cultura, in Trento, Innsbruck and Munich. From 1991 to 2000, he worked as a researcher and then as a professor at the University of Padua and in 2001 he became Full Professor for Political Philosophy at the University of Trento. His research interests span from ethics to political theory. He has been visiting fellow at several international universities (i.a. Freiburg i.B.. KU Leuven, Notre Dame, IN, USA) and scientific coordinator of national and international research projects.