SPEAKER'S PROFILES
Chicco Testa
Chicco Testa was born in Bergamo on January 5th, 1952. He lives in Rome.
At present Chicco Testa is Chairman of the Board of Roma Metropolitane and Managing Director of Rothschild Spa.
Also he is member of the Board of Allianz Spa, Chairman of the Board of Telit Communications PLC and Chairman of the Board of E.V.A.- Energie Valsabbia - a company developing hydropower generation plants.
He has been also Chairman Organising Committee 20th World Energy Congress hold in Rome on November 2007.
From 1994 to 1996 he was Chairman of the Board of ACEA (Rome’s Electricity and Water Co.)
From 1996 to 2002 he was Chairman of the Board of Enel Spa, the most important Electrical Italian Company .
From 2002 to 2005 he was Member of the Advisory Board of Carlyle Europe, affiliate of “The Carlyle Group”, (Private Equity), Chairman of the Board of Directors of STA Spa (The Mobility Agency of the City of Rome).
From 1980 to 1987 Mr. Testa was National Secretary and then National President at Legambiente.
From 1987 to 1994 for two legislatures, he was elected to the Italian Parliament Chamber of Deputies, Commission for the Environment and the Territory.
Chicco Testa is a journalist and he contributes to some of the most important daily and weekly Italian papers.
He was professor at the LUISS School Management in Rome (MBA Program Economics and Management in Public Utilities) and he was Professor at the Universities of Macerata and Naples in Economic and Environmental subjects.
