Prefect and ministerial work Piantedosi was born in
Naples to a father who was a headmaster and a mother who was a teacher. The
Council of Ministers, on 16 November 2012, appointed him Deputy Director-General of Public Security for the coordination and planning of the Police Forces. From April 2014 until May 2017 he was also the Managing Authority of the National Operational Program "Security for Development-Convergence Objective 2007/2013", of the National Operational Program "Legality 2014/2020" and of the Complementary Operational Program for Programming 2014 /2020, and also the Responsible Authority of the "European Fund for External Borders 2007/2013" and of the "Internal Security Fund 2014/2020". In May 2017, he went back to the
Province of Bologna as its prefect. Piantedosi remained in this position after Salvini was replaced by
Luciana Lamorgese; he left in August 2020 to be prefect of the
Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. During his time in Salvini's ministry, Piantedosi and the minister were indicted in 2019 over accusations of abuse of office for refusing to allow the passengers on the migrant boat
Alan Kurdi to disembark in Italy. In November that year, the case against both men was closed, as the court ruled that no crime had been committed. It ruled that Italy was not the "first-contact country" required to take in the passengers, as the ship was
registered in Germany.
Minister of the Interior and ministers
Guido Crosetto and
Antonio Tajani Piantedosi was named the Minister of the Interior in
Giorgia Meloni's
cabinet, which was sworn in on 22 October 2022. In July 2025, Piantedosi was among several European officials declared "persona non grata" by the
Government of National Stability in eastern Libya after he and the said officials held an earlier meeting with officials of the rival
Government of National Unity based in
Tripoli. ==Personal life==