RES4Africa People
Roberto Vigotti is the Secretary General of RES4Africa Foundation.
In his 30+ year-long career he has covered various positions at Enel, University of Pisa, IEA and IRENA. When it was still considered an unlikely option, he was already convinced that deploying renewable energy in Africa would result in a positive socioeconomic impact for its population. In 2012, he therefore embarked on the RES4Africa adventure, to support a wider participation of private players in delivering investments in Africa.
He also coordinates the renewAfrica Initiative.
Silvia is the Secretary General’s right-hand. Deeply motivated by teamwork, Silvia loves assisting her colleagues using their own capacities in order to contribute to a common mission and lead the development of renewable energy solutions in Africa to fruition.
Silvia is responsible for the development and monitoring of the Foundation’s governance, strategy and dialogue. Silvia loves working with partners, stakeholders and staff, as it gives her the possibility to discover new contexts and viewpoints.
Josefina has extensive experience in the area of sustainable development, poverty reduction and inclusion, acquired through leading positions in OXFAM, The World Bank, and IFAD. She now manages high-level multilateral relations, and is focal point for the renewAfrica initiative.
Driven by a curious mind and high motivation, Ivana supports the programmes of the Foundation, in particular the renewAfrica Initiative. She is committed to the idea of common efforts towards a more sustainable future and will work for it.
As personal and professional life cannot be separated, Dario loves communicating what he’s passionate about and believes in. By promoting renewable energy, he feels he is playing his part in fostering sustainable development and mitigating climate breakdown.
Passionate about writing and international cooperation, Antonella is proactive and driven by curiosity, qualities that are essential in her job. Her experience in the field in many different parts of the world has given her a clear understanding of the crucial role that communications can make in creating real change.
Assia has organized events at a national, regional and international scale between Europe and Africa. Her daily work has a deep meaning to her, as she contributes in a way to find solutions to help the environment.
Carlo has a wide experience in the energy sector. He worked for the most important companies and institutions in Europe and in Russia in the field of renewables, electricity production and power management. He is passionate about communications and innovation and has always worked in multicultural teams, using the different members’ capacities to contribute to a common mission and lead the development of renewable energy solutions in the world.
Marta strongly believes that the development of competences and sharing of experiences are essential to create innovative solutions for economic and job opportunities and to enable the communities in responding to environmental challenges like access to energy and climate change.
Stefano is widely inspired by capacity building initiatives such as the Micro Grid Academy, since he believes they are the true cornerstone of an autonomous access to energy, as a way to achieve equality and development.
Flavia is responsible of capacity building initiatives such as the Advanced Training Course for which she is the principal organizer. Flavia strongly believes in the power of the projects and loves to help and witness the trainees reaching their goals and objectives.
Being an experimented policy and regulation advisor in the electricity sector, Andrea is driven by his daily purpose of contributing to Africa’s development. Passionate about energy policies, geopolitics and development issues, Andrea nourishes his appetite through the leading of studies aiming at driving Africa’s sustainable energy revolution.
Luca works at cross-sectorial level through business development, international relations, market and policy analysis. He is driven by his work as it leads him to move from analysis to project origination to on-field implementation.
Chiara’s work focuses primarily on the integration of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. She is deeply motivated by the cross-sectorial and human environment in her work, and finds beauty in the use of engineering skills to help communities.
As sub-Saharan Region Programme Manager, Antonio promotes policy dialogue and coordinates strategic analysis on the drivers to enable renewable energy investments in Africa.
Before joining RES4Africa, he worked for seven years on the technical, economic, policy and social dimensions of the energy transition from a business perspective.
As a partnership and relational marketing professional, Marianna loves to discover how the world looks like from news perspectives. Marianna is responsible for the South Africa Programme local deployment and stakeholders’ engagement and is motivated to use her skills to contribute to high socio-economic objectives such as Africa’s just energy transition.
Ilaria strongly believes in the power of sustainable energy and leading developing countries to their transition. Taking example on her past international experience, Ilaria loves working and learning from people from other countries and regions of the world, which makes, according to her, the quality of her work.
Federico supports the implementation of renewable energy projects in the MENA
region and beyond. Driven by solving climate change problems and dealing with
energy sustainability issues, he feels deeply involved in contributing to
RES4Africa Foundation’s mission.
Chiara manages human resources, budgeting and accounting. She loves witnessing the tangibility of her daily work through effective and rapid results and impact.
Anna is responsible for the office management, supports staff and carries out administrative activities. As the “mother of the office”, Anna’s gentleness and availability brings positivity in the working environment.
Valentina carries out logistic and administrative activities such as accounting and human resources. Working daily with quantitative data, she finds a sense of utility in the numbers she works on, that ultimately contribute to RES4Africa’s mission.