Brando Benifei

Brando Benifei is an Italian Member of the European Parliament, currently serving his third term. He is Coordinator in the Committee on International Trade for the Socialists and Democrats Group and Chair of the Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with the United States. He is also a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and a substitute member of the Committees on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, and on Legal Affairs, where he follows digital policy issues closely. In the previous mandate, he was co-Rapporteur of the Artificial Intelligence Act, a role for which he received the award for “Best MEP of the Mandate” from The Parliament Magazine in March 2024. Throughout his career, he has been actively engaged in shaping the European Union’s digital agenda, trade relations, and constitutional matters.