Fabio Porta was born in Caltagirone, Sicily, in 1963, where he completed his studies before moving to Rome. After graduating in Sociology (Sapienza University, Rome), he started working at UIL (Unione Italiana del Lavoro, an Italian trade union confederation). He then specialised in ‘Adult Education’ at the University of Florence. He runs the political training school of the ‘Centro Culturale Walter Tobagi’ in Rome.
In 1995, he moved to Brazil to coordinate an international cooperation project; he later became President of the ITAL-UIL Institute in Brazil (the Institute for the Protection and Assistance of Italian Workers and Pensioners is a patronage set up by the UIL also present abroad).
In 2008, he was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies with the Democratic Party for the Electoral College of South America. Re-elected in 2013, he won the South American senatorial seat in 2022, after almost four years of appeals for electoral fraud. In the general elections of September 2022, he was elected as an MP. He is a member of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chamber of Deputies and President of the Italy-Brazil Friendship Section of the Italian Inter-Parliamentary Union. President of the ‘Italy-Brazil Friendship Association’ and of the ‘Institute for Cooperation with Foreign Countries’; Vice-President of the ‘Focus Europa’ Association.