Pasquale Salzano — Executive Vice President of Government Affairs Department at ENI S.p.A.

Mr. Pasquale Salzano has been an Executive Vice President of Government Affairs Department at Eni SpA since February 19, 2015. Mr. Salzano has 3 years of experience with Eni. Since January 2011, he was Vice President of International Institutional Relations in the Department of Institutional Relations and Communications at Eni and Vice President of Eni USA's Representative office. Since July 2012, he served as Vice President of International Institutional Relations within the Office for Institutional and Regulatory Affairs at Eni. Since July 1, 2014, he served Eni's Senior Vice President Government Affairs. He began his career as a diplomat in December 1999 and from January 2000 to July 2001, worked on legal and institutional issues regarding the European Union at the General Directorate for European Integration of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2001, in the aftermath of the Balkan conflict, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the international OSCE Mission in Belgrade and was posted by the Italian Government to Pristina to establish and manage the Italian Liaison Office at the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Kosovo. Since 2005, he was in New York at the Permanent Mission of Italy to the Unite Nations and after about two years, was posted to Rome to the Office of the Diplomatic Adviser to the Prime Minister where, in view of the Italian Presidency of the G8, was appointed by the Prime Minister as Head of the Sherpa Office for the G8/G20. In 2009, he was selected by the OECD Secretary-General as Director of the Heiligendamm/L'Aquila Process in Paris. From 1996 to 1999, he collaborated with Prof. Benedetto Conforti at the Chair of International Law at the University of Naples and in 2000, qualified as a Lawyer at the Naples Court of Appeals. He is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, is a member of the Board of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) Italy, the Scientific Committee of the Rome-Mediterranean Foundation and the National Assembly of UNICEF Italy. He is a member of the Institute for International Affairs (IAI) and the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). In 1996, he graduated with Honors in Law from the University Federico II in Naples and in 2000 obtained a PhD in international law from the University of Siena.