enrico letta (born 20 august 1966) is an italian politician. he is the secretary of the democratic party since 2021. he was the prime minister of italy (head of government) from 2013 to 2014. previously, he had also been a member of several italian governments, as of 1998. in april 2015 he announced that he was not going to be a professional politician anymore, and that he wanted to concentrate on academia.