Roberto leads the Centre for Energy and Materials at the World Economic Forum.
The Centre addresses the critical issues of the energy and materials transition at national, regional and
global level. To this extent Roberto and his team engage with the leaders of companies, policy makers,
civil society, academia across all sectors involved in the transition.

The activities of the Centre include research, publications and public – private coalition’s building on
the topics of energy and materials intensity, energy equity, supply chain for energy transition,
innovation, clean power for electrification and accelerating investments in emerging economies.
Before joining the Forum in 2009, Roberto was at BP for 14 years, lastly as Director, Emerging
Consumer Markets in BP Alternative Energy, with previous responsibilities in Strategy, Business
Development, Supply and Trading, Sales, Marketing, in multiple postings (France, UK, Poland, India,
South Africa, China, Viet Nam). Before BP, Roberto worked at Telecom Italia and Unifarma. He holds
a degree in Business and Economics from the University of Turin in Italy.