Marco Alverà
Marco Alverà was born in New York in 1975. He was brought up in the US, Italy and the UK. He has a degree in economics and philosophy from the London School of Economics, and is a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford. He began his career working at Goldman Sachs in London before moving to Enel, the world’s largest renewable-energy company and one of the largest energy utilities in Europe. He then spent 11 years at Eni, the oil and gas company. Since 2016, he has run Snam, Europe’s largest gas pipeline company with more than 3,000 employees and more than 40,000 kilometres of pipelines that carry and store natural gas across Italy and Europe.
During his 20 years in the industry, he has travelled almost every thread of the energy web, from renewable and fossil-generated electricity to oil and gas exploration and production, trading to infrastructure. He originated the influential idea of an ‘Airbus of Hydrogen’, launched in 2019 in an op-ed in the Financial Times. He is working closely with the organisers of COP26 (the postponed 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference) and several CEOs, think-tanks and policymakers to create a hydrogen coalition.
Alverà’s TED talk on fairness in the workplace, watched by over 2.5 million people, highlights how we social animals feel unfairness as pain and fear, and how that diminishes performance. He thinks the same applies to climate change, where fear generates paralysis, and is passionate about sharing a more optimistic, energising story to generate constructive action. He lives in Milan with his partner and their two daughters.
