Steering Group Italy

Deep experience and competences in the energy sector, on energy efficiency and renewables. Strategic positioning on the regulatory market, negotiations both in national and international institutional context; elaboration communication strategies in both external and internal contexts and instruments to support commercial strategies. Project management, teamwork and team coordination capacities. Strong motivation and focus on results, interest in “co-construction” with internal and external clients.

COO of Green Building Council Italia

Marco Caffi graduated in mechanical engineering from the University of Brescia, and completed his training with a PhD at the Politecnico of Milano and a master's degree in Project&Construction Management at the University of Brescia. Before joining GBC Italia, he was technical director and vice president of an engineering company operating in energy, sustainability and technological application in buildings, developing a depth knowledge of building technologies in various sectors (airport, hospital, industry, office buildings, retail and entertainment centers) and a competence in the management of processes. In 2010, with other eight friends, he founded the edutainment science center AmbienteParco, a social initiative dedicated to environmental sustainability located in Brescia. Since 2014 he has taught Mechanical, Eletrical and Plumbing systems for buildings and dynamic energy simulation at the University of Brescia. In 2015 he joined the Green Building Council Italia as COO. In his free time Marco loves sailing and playing guitar.

Researcher, ENEA

Alessandro Federici has been a researcher at ENEA since 2007. Currently, he is the Head of Laboratory for the Monitoring of energy efficiency policies at ENEA’s Department for Energy Efficiency. Since 2016, he has been the coordinator of ENEA’s working group dealing with the Italian National Energy Efficiency Action Plans and the Annual Reports to the European Commission, and providing support to the Ministry of Economic Development in the revision process of EE Directives. He is the project leader of the ENEA’s Energy Efficiency Annual Reports and Tax Deduction Scheme Annual Report. He is the Italian delegate in the Energy Efficiency Working Party of the International Energy Agency (IEA), in the Executive Committee of the International Partnership for the Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC), in the Implementation Working Group for Energy Efficiency in Industry (IWG6) of the Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan),
and in the Task Force on Mobilising Efforts to Reach the EU Energy Efficiency Targets for 2020, established by the European Commission. He was the coordinator for ENEA of the H2020 project PUBLEnEf (http://publenef-project.eu/); he is currently involved in the EU  project CA EED - Concerted Action Energy Efficiency Directive (https://www.ca-eed.eu/Homepage), ODYSSEE-MURE (https://www.odyssee-mure.eu/), HARP - Heating Appliances Retrofit Planning (https://heating-retrofit.eu/), meetMED - Mitigation Enabling Energy Transition in the Mediterranean Region (https://meetmed.org/), GreenAbility - Green abilities to tackle social issue, ENPOR – Actions to Mitigate Energy Poverty in the Private Rented Sector.
 

Municipality of Padua

Official of the Municipality of Padua, environment and territory sector. Since July 2011 he has been Director of the Coordination of Local Italian Agencies 21. Since 2001 he has been in charge of the Environmental Information and Agenda 21 Office, which is responsible for promoting and managing environmental education and managing Agenda 21 in Padua. He has participated in various national working tables on: Green purchasing at the Ministry of the Environment, environmental accounting managed by ANPA and sustainable consumption managed by ARPA Toscana. I have experience in the management of several European projects.

GBC Italia

Her role in GBC Italia: International activities and project lead, Member of the policy task force within the European Regional Network of GBCs 

Qualifications: Building technology, European projects design and implementation, advocacy and policy for market transformation
She holds a Doctoral degree in Technological Innovation for the Built Environment from Politecnico di Torino, Department of Architecture and Design, with specialization in Energy Efficiency and retrofitting of existing and historic buildings. 

She has 10 years-experience in large European cooperation projects. She worked as WP manager in the Geothermal Communities project (FP7, ended in 2015) where her work focused on developing and implementing a retrofitting strategy for the historic centre of the town of Montieri, and managing technical and administrative tasks of the project for the same local authority. She has recently concluded Wall-ACE project (H2020) supporting an Italian SME in the development of two innovative, aerogel-based building materials for improving energy efficiency of building envelopes. 
With GBC Italia she collaborated as Project Manager Assistant into BUILD UPON project (H2020 ended in 2017) and the EEMAP initiative (ended 2019) and she is currently leading the activities of GBC Italia into LIFE LLL project (LIFE GIE), BIM4REN (H2020) and BUILD UPON2 (H2020).
 

Science and Technology Counsellor of MAECI at the General Consulate of Shanghai.

Roberto Pagani is the Science and Technology Counsellor of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAECI) at the General Consulate of Shanghai, since 2016.
He is Full Professor of Building Technology at Politecnico Torino (Italy). Former researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY USA, since 1990s Pagani is independent expert of the European Commission (DG Energy, DG Research), and project coordinator of many EU energy demonstration projects. As sustainable building expert, he is a member of the design team of the Olympic Village of Turin 2006 Winter Games, and later, the initiator of the Turin Smart City initiative.
Since 2003, Pagani has extended collaborations in China. He is the concept designer of the new Sino-Italian Science and Technology Park of Luoyang (Henan), where he is Honorary Professor at the Luoyang University. Pagani is also acknowledged as Visiting Professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) and academic adviser of the Institute of Urban Planning and Design of the Jiangsu Province.
From 2012 to 2015, Pagani was based in Beijing, at the Tsinghua University, as the EU co-Director of the Europe-China Clean Energy Centre (EC2), an initiative of the European Union in conjunction with the National Energy Administration (NEA) and Ministry of Commerce (MofCOM) of China. In his role, he contributed to the EU-China Energy Cooperation Roadmap 2020, and to various energy planning among European and Chinese cities. 

Head of Energy and Environmental Services Edison SpA

52 years old, married, 4 children. He joined Edison in 2001 where he initially worked on corporate transformation. In 2004 he contributes to the creation of Edison Trading and its operations in the Italian and European markets. From 2013 to 2016, he joined EDF's headquarters in Paris as part of the Group's Energy Services Department, with a special focus on major urban renewal projects, Smart City and IoT. 

Since 2017, he has been responsible for Edison's Energy and Environmental Services developed through the Edison-Fenice industrial subholding company (of which he is Chief Executive Officer) which, thanks to the daily contribution of about 2,600 employees, operates in Italy, Spain and Poland with annual revenues of about 500 million euros. 

For Edison and EDF, he has held numerous corporate governance posts on the Boards of Directors of subsidiaries that operate in the energy industry. 

Since 2016, he has been a member of Edison's Executive Committee (about €10 billion in annual sales, 5,000 employees)
 

Water and Energy Agency of the Autonomous Province of Trento

Sara Verones has a degree in building engineering and architecture, with a doctorate in environmental engineering, and works as an expert technician at the Water and Energy Agency of the Autonomous Province of Trento, where she is responsible for the Energy Planning and European Projects Area. He coordinates EU-funded projects and manages relations with EU organisations responsible for sustainable energy programmes. She carries out provincial energy planning activities, in particular the implementation of the provincial energy-environmental plan in force and the elaboration of the new version for the period 2021-2030. Sara is the author of national and international publications and speakers at numerous conferences and events.