Roberto directs a dynamic team focused on advancing high-impact collaboration among industry, government, and civil society to accelerate the energy and materials transitions at national, regional and global levels. Under his leadership, the Centre works to bring together leaders from companies and countries to create insights, shape solutions, and drive action toward a secure, sustainable, and equitable energy system that supports economic and social development. Roberto engages stakeholders across oil and gas, utilities, energy technology, mining and metals, chemicals, and infrastructure to address shared challenges and opportunities.
The activity led by Roberto spans a broad range of critical topics, including transitioning industrial clusters, securing critical minerals, enabling responsible renewable deployment, advancing clean fuels, transforming power systems, and mobilizing finance for clean energy. He also leads strategic initiatives that provide fact-based insights and benchmarking to support decision-making during this period of industrial transformation.
In addition to his role as Head of the Centre for Energy and Materials, Roberto also leads the Content and Programming team at the Forum’s Beijing office. In this capacity, he bridges the work of the Centres and ensures that Forum initiatives are curated and deployed in China across four main thematic areas: Health, Wealth and Security; Nature and Climate; Economy, Trade and Jobs; and Industrial Transformation. He drives strategic engagement with government, business and media, and forges partnerships with academia, thought leaders and innovators to bring foresight and insight to Forum stakeholders in the region.
Before joining the Forum in 2009, Roberto was at BP for 14 years, most recently 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.
To reduce emissions, the share of clean energy in total investment needs to rise to two-thirds by 2030. 60% of that has to occur in developing economies.
More than 400 government and business leaders gathered in Beijing to discuss opportunities to transition to a low-carbon economy. Here are some takeaways.
2020年は世界のエネルギー転換のターニングポイントとなるはずでした。人間の活動に起因した温室効果ガスの年間排出量を世界全体で見ると、エネルギーの生産と消費が3分の2を占めています。このためパリ協定の誓約を実現するためには、エネルギー転換を中心に据える必要があります。
Les perturbations de la COVID-19 ont mis en évidence les vulnérabilités du système énergétique.
全球每年人为产生的排放中，三分之二来自能源生产与消耗，因此能源转型成为履行《巴黎协定》承诺的核心，而2020年本应成为全球能源转型进程的转折点。
This year's index shows slow but steady progress, with more than 80% countries increasing their score since 2015. But COVID-19 has destablized the global energy system. So what's next?
COVID-19 and the subsequent collapse in oil prices have created an opportunity for unprecedented global collaboration on a sustainable energy transition.
In thinking about how we want our future energy systems to look, we need to look at a set of three critical considerations to get access to reliable yet affordable energy.
五年前，在世界经济论坛年会上，我们对全球各大能源公司的执行官们、能源价值链中各方的政策制定者以及思想领袖们提出了这样一个问题：你们希望看到全球的能源体系在未来10年内发生多大的变化？绝大多数（超过90%）的领导者表示，他们坚信，在未来10年中整个世界都将发生翻天覆地的变化。近三分之一的领导者预测，能源的开采、运输、消费方式将会发生改变。
A radical shift is taking place to attain energy security in the future. What can countries do to ensure they emerge as the winners of this transition?
But in the same way that we can’t predict the future of climate change by looking at the weather outside, we can’t assess the energy transformation by observing only current events. Energ...
Some predictions on how the energy sector will change over the next 10 years.
