Umberto Agnelli was an Italian industrialist and politician, born in Lausanne in 1934, the youngest of seven children of Edoardo Agnelli and Virginia Bourbon del Monte and the younger brother of Gianni Agnelli. He studied law at the University of Catania. He chaired Fiat France from 1965 to 1980, was chief executive of Fiat from 1970 to 1976, vice president until 1993 and chairman of Fiat Auto from 1980 to 1990. After his brother died in 2003 he became chairman of the Fiat Group and tried to refocus the company on cars, bringing in Giuseppe Morchio to run it, but he died of lung cancer in May 2004 after about eighteen months in charge. He also chaired the Juventus football club and sat in the Italian Senate from 1976 to 1979.
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1 November 1934 – 27 May 2004) was an Italian industrialist and politician.
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1 November 1934-27 May 2004) was an Italian industrialist and politician.
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Agnelli served as a CEO of Italian carmaker Fiat from 1970 to 1976.
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In 2015, he was posthumously inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame.
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