EDP Secretary General Sandro Gozi was elected as a member of the Italian parliament in 2006. He was appointed Secretary of State in charge of European Affairs in the Renzi and Gentiloni governments in Italy from 2014 to 2018, then in 2019 was project manager in the cabinet of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe in France. The same year, he was elected a member of the European Parliament on the Renaissance list and sits in the Renew Europe group, where he is a member of both the Constitutional Affairs Committee and the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee. Gozi became in December 2022 the Renew Europe group coordinator within the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. He is also president of the Union of European Federalists and advocates a transnational European policy. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Europe and teaches at several European universities.