My Job
I lead Kekst CNC’s energy and sustainability work from Brussels, ensuring that clients translate their corporate strategies into clear policy and regulatory objectives. My role involves shaping compelling narratives that resonate with audiences, and communicating these effectively to policymakers and key stakeholders across the industries in which our clients operate.
My Experience
I’ve been working for over a dozen years in Brussels at the intersection of energy, transport, and climate action with corporations, trade associations and professional services firms. I worked with the leading EU renewable energy trade association, the largest power and energy commodity exchange in the world, and three global public affairs and strategic communications firms.
My Specialisms
My Proudest Achievements
When working with the energy exchange, I contributed leading an innovation practice across all companies and geographies of the group, together with colleagues with the most diverse extractions but the same desire to find better ways to work. The practice is still active now, and I’m trying every day to infuse my public affairs work with the great learnings I accumulated in the four years of running the group.
My Education
- MBA, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Universite’ Libre de Bruxelles
- Economics and Political Science, University of Milan
My Languages
English, Spanish, French, Italian.
My Interests outside work
My family, cooking (just the regular meals, sophisticated stuff is my wife’s specialty!), football (read, watched, and—less and less—played), corporate history.
My Favourite Brussels anecdote
As my bright colleagues often remind me, coming across as the solution to problems is the best way to approach policymakers and other stakeholders. I was reminded myself of such simple truth when a few years ago some colleagues and I organised a meeting on the reform of the EU ETS with a Director General of the European Commission. The topic was tricky, but because we came offering a solution marrying the Commission’s sustainability agenda with making sense of industry’s concerns, we were able to engage in an effective conversation with the Director General.