Italy’s president on Wednesday approved Giuseppe Conte’s nomination as prime minister – amid claims the little-known lawyer padded his resume, listing NYU among the universities he attended.

“The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella received this afternoon professor Giuseppe Conte, to whom he gave the mandate to form a government,” said General Secretary Ugo Zampetti.

The political neophyte’s nomination to lead incoming populist government had hit a snag because of the embarrassing questions about his CV.

In addition to New York University, Conte, 53, also claimed to have attended Yale, Duquesne in Pittsburgh, the UK’s Cambridge and the Sorbonne in Paris, among other schools.

Conte said he “perfected his legal studies” at NYU for at least a month every summer between 2008 and 2012 — but a school spokeswoman said the University of Florence law professor has never studied there.

“While Mr. Conte had no official status at NYU, he was granted permission to conduct research in the NYU Law library between 2008 and 2014, and he invited an NYU Law professor to serve on the board of an Italian law journal,” rep Michelle Tsai said in a statement.

Duquesne University told AFP that Conte attended the university as part of an affiliation with Villa Nazareth, an exchange program, and did legal research but “was not enrolled as a student.”

Conte’s resume said he carried out “scientific research” at Cambridge’s Girton College in 2001. A Cambridge source told Reuters that Conte might have attended a course prepared by a third party.

Yale did not respond to a request for comment from The Post.

Conte’s alleged embellishments drew scorn in the Italian press.

“Conte betrayed by his CV,” blared a headline in left-leaning paper La Republicca.

“The CV affair is open, Conte is hanging in the balance,” Il Corriere della Sera declared.

The brouhaha put the anti-establishment Five-Star Movement on the defensive.

“Giuseppe Conte wrote with clarity that he perfected and updated his studies at New York University. But he did not cite courses or say he completed a master’s at the university,” it said in a statement.

“Conte, like any scholar, has studied abroad, enriched his knowledge and perfected his legal English. For a professor of his level, the opposite would have been strange. He did it and rightly wrote it in the [CV], but paradoxically this is not good now and it even becomes a fault. It is the umpteenth confirmation that they [the press] are so afraid of this government of change.”

Conte must now finalize his cabinet, which has been the subject of days of tough negotiations between the Five Star Movement and the far-right League.

The list of ministerial candidates must then receive Mattarella’s endorsement before it can be submitted for parliamentary approval, ending more than two months of political uncertainty in the eurozone’s third-largest economy.

EU officials have been nervous about the prospective coalition government’s eurosceptic and anti-immigrant stance.

Conte has been involved in controversy before.

An Italian newspaper that alleged he overstated his role in a law firm reported that his CV said he founded the Alpa Studio Legale firm, but he was, in fact, an external contributor, according to the BBC.

And in 2013, he represented the family of a terminally ill girl in their fight for access to a now-discredited medical treatment. The family won the case but the girl eventually died and the government banned testing for the stem-cell treatment.