Antonio Vella — Chief Upstream Officer at ENI S.p.A.

Mr. Antonio Vella has been Chief Upstream Officer at Eni SpA since July 1, 2014. Mr. Vella has 31 years of experience with Eni. From December 2012 to May 2014, he served as Division Executive Vice President of Central Asia, Far East and Pacific Area at Eni Exploration & Production. Since 2009, he served as Executive Vice President Operations of Eni Exploration & Production Division. From 2006 to 2009, he was Regional Senior Vice President North Africa and Middle East Area (Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia) of Eni Exploration & Production Division. Since 2002, he served as Regional Vice President for Australasia, Russia, Azerbaijan and then in 2005 Board Member & Managing Director of Eni Algeria. In 1999, he served as District General Manager of Nigerian Agip Oil Co (NAOC), and since 2000, he served as Vice Chairman and Managing Director of NAOC, NAE (Nigerian Agip Exploration) and AENR (Agip Energy), Eni's affiliated companies in Nigeria. In 1991, he served as Project Manager for the development of the Libyan fields and in 1993, he moved to Egypt first as Operations Manager and then as General Manager and Managing Director of Petrobel in charge of all Eni upstream operations in Egypt. From 1988 to 1991, he worked as Project Manager in EniChem's petrochemical plants and refineries in Italy. He joined the Eni Group in 1983, where he started his professional career as Petroleum Engineer in Agip Name, a subsidiary of the Eni Group in Libya, in onshore and offshore upstream operations. He graduated in Petroleum Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin in 1982.