Monsignor Carlo Maria Polvani has been serving as Under-secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, assuming the role of Secretary of the Dicastery, with the titular see of Regie, with the personal title of archbishop.

He was born in Milan on 28 July 1965. He studied at the Leone XIII Institute (Milan) and at the Collège Stanislas (Montréal), where he graduated in Biochemistry and received his doctorate.

His education includes a Master of Divinity at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology (Cambridge, USA); a Licentiate in Canon Law at the Pontifical Gregorian University, with a specialisation in Jurisprudence and Forensic Psychology; and a doctorate in Canon Law.

He has been Prelate of Honour of His Holiness since 2013.

He was admitted to the Diplomatic Service of the Holy See in July 1999 and sent to the Apostolic Nunciature in Mexico. In 2015, he was appointed a member of the Commission on Vatican Media and the Executive Committee on Information and Communication Technology of the Holy See.