Maria Chiara Acciarini
Maria Chiara Acciarini (Torre Pellice, October 1, 1943) is an Italian politician. Biography With degrees in economics and literature, she has been a teacher of legal and economic subjects and a principal in a high school. From 1988 to 1990, she was part of the secretariat of CGIL School in Turin. Later, she began her activity as an essayist, writing books on the education system and family memoirs. The granddaughter of Filippo Acciarini, a socialist journalist who died in Mauthausen on March 2, 1945, she is dedicated to studying the deportation to Nazi concentration camps; she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation of Memory of Deportation and of the Technical Scientific Committee of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers for the realization of the new Italian exhibition path at Auschwitz. From 2019, she served as the chairperson of the National Committee for the celebrations of the centenary of the birth of Bianca Guidetti Serra (January 2019 - January 2022). As of October 2021, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Turin. Political activity From 1993 to 1996 she was elected as a councilwoman of the Piedmontese capital, where