ENRICO Letta, who will be Italy's next prime minister, is the Europhile deputy leader of the leftist Democratic Party.
He was nominated on Wednesday and at 46 years of age already has extensive government experience.
His age counted in his favour amid calls for generational change, as did his "post-ideological" image which makes him the obvious leader of a grand coalition government.
Despite his age, Letta has already served in four governments, including stints as minister for Europe and for trade and industry. He had already served in centre-left cabinets in the late 1990s.
Another possible asset is the fact that his uncle is Gianni Letta, a shadowy figure who has been Silvio Berlusconi's right-hand man for years.
This didn't prevent him from being one of Berlusconi's strongest critics, although the scandal-tainted billionaire tycoon will now be an important power behind the throne.
Letta was born in Pisa on August 20, 1966 and studied political sciences and international law at a time when he was an active member of the Christian Democratic party. The party eventually collapsed in a storm of corruption scandals.
Letta headed up the European youth wing of the centre-right Christian Democrats between 1991 and 1995, after which he worked at the finance ministry on Italy's bid to adopt the euro before joining Massimo D'Alema's leftist government in 1998.
The ambitious Letta later served under two other prime ministers - Giuliano Amato and Romano Prodi in a period in which an often divided centre-left alternated its frequently brief terms in office with successive Berlusconi governments.
He has said his heroes are Polish anti-communist leader Lech Walesa and South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela.
Letta has also admitted to a fondness for popular Italian comic "Dylan Dog" -- the adventures of a womanising sleuth specialising in the paranormal.
"I wanted to be like him," he told one interviewer.
Letta is also a big fan of British rock band Dire Straits and Italian pop-rockers Nomadi.
He has been a leading member of the national committee of the Democratic Party since it was formed in 2007 as a combination between the remnants of the historic Italian Communist Party and a series of small centrist parties.
Letta is the author of books including "Building a Cathedral: Why Italy Should Go Back to Thinking Big" and "Is Europe Over?" in which he called for a "new project" for Europe to lift it out of a period of crisis on many levels.
He has been married twice and has three children.
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