Marco Granelli

Born in 1963, he lives in the Bruzzano neighborhood with his wife and three children.

He studied at the Homer high school and since then he has been involved in volunteering for the association of his neighborhood, from which the Aquilone foundation was born.

Here he carries out his civil service, after school with children from public housing and disabled people, having chosen conscientious objection over military service.

He worked in Caritas Ambrosiana, first dealing with people suffering from AIDS and later with policies and social services, alongside Fr Angelo Bazzari and Fr Virginio Colmegna.

In 1990 he was elected to the Zone Council, where he remained until 2001, gaining experience of political commitment in the neighborhoods.

In 1993 he founded the social cooperative Farsi Prossimo with friends, engaging in Federsolidarity and Confcooperative up to the presidency of the social cooperatives in Milan, to try to promote true social cooperation, capable of innovating social services and putting people and work at the center , not the profits of individuals.

A great training experience was the responsibility, as president, of CIESSEVI from 1997 to 2006, a body set up by voluntary associations to provide them with services and training, to promote and defend them and at the same time manager of the Service Center for Volunteering for the Province of Milan.

From 1999 to 2011 he chaired the coordination of about seventy Service Centers for Volunteering (CSVnet) existing throughout Italy. In 2005 he fought to defend the law on volunteering and then to keep the 5 per thousand in favor of non-profit associations.

In 2006 he was elected city councilor in Milan, on the Ulivo list. He is one of the founders of the Democratic Party to which he has been a member since 2008.

In 2011, elected municipal councilor, he was appointed councilor for Security and Social Cohesion, Local Police, Civil Protection and Volunteering in the junta led by Giuliano Pisapia.

Neighborhood police, local police units dedicated to street crimes, doubling of cameras to control the city, halving road accidents are some of the priorities completed in terms of safety. A plan has been launched for the containment of floods in the Seveso river and for all emergency interventions, including housing, and a plan for major events based on the example of Expo 2015 which involves, in collaboration, Civil Protection, Local Police, Mm, Amsa and all the institutions operating in the area. Measures have been taken against degradation and abandoned areas especially in the suburbs. Also on the peripheries, social cohesion activities have contained the hardships of those who live in the neighborhoods, especially for young people.

Since 2016, after the last electoral consultations that see him as a city councilor, the mayor Giuseppe Sala has appointed him councilor for Mobility and Environment.