Rome May 22 (IANS/AKI) Giuseppe Conte a law professor picked by Italy s Five-Star Movement and the League party to lead their nascent populist government "does not show up" in New York University s records "as a student or faculty member" a media report said on Tuesday.
Conte a little-known Italian academic and a political novice lists research at famous universities around the world including Yale the Sorbonne in France and NYU where he said he "perfected and updated his studies" for at least a month each summer from 2008-2012 the New York Times reported.
Asked about Conte s experience at NYU spokeswoman Michelle Tsai said: "A person by this name does not show up in any of our records as either a student or faculty member " according to the New York Times.
It was possible that Conte had attended one or two-day programmes for which the school does not keep records she added.

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