At present Positions held and functions. Senior Strategy advisor of Africa Climate Energy Nexus platform https://africacen.org/ Expert member of the mission board for the adaptation to the climate change, Horizon Europe https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/funding/funding-opportunities/funding-programmes-and-open-calls/horizon-europe/eu-missions-horizon-europe/adaptation-climate-change_en , Senior advisor at MedOr foundation on CRM https://www.med-or.org/en , Member of Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei Scientific Advisory Board (FEEM-SAB) https://www.feem.it/en/. Associate Member of Centro Interuniversitario per la Ricerca per sviluppo Sostenibile (CIRPS) http://www.cirps.it/en/cirps-eng/. Member of the Board FEED at International Center for advanced mediterranean agronomic studies (CIHEAM) https://www.ciheam.org/. Member of scientific committee of SFIDE (university UNITELMA Roma), Senior advisor of Link2007 network of international NGOs, http://www.link2007.org/, Member of Italian National Council for development Cooperation and Coordinator of the working group on private sector https://www.esteri.it/en/politica-estera-e-cooperazione-allo-sviluppo/cooperaz_sviluppo/consiglio-nazionale-per-la-cooperazione-allo-sviluppo-cncs/ Member of Scientific Committee of Next the new economy https://www.nexteconomia.org/ Co-founder of KALOS and AWA FARO,; associate Professor lecturer at various universities He holds a PhD in Technology from the Sapienza University (Rome ITALY) 1991, an MBA from the Open University (UK) 1998 and a magna cum laude degree in engineering from the Sapienza University 1985(Italy) . Roberto speaks Italian (mother tongue) English and French and authored several books, articles and interviews in Italian, English and French. Experience Director at the European Commission for Sustainable Growth and Development (Planet and Prosperity) (2013-2017), in charge of all centrally managed EU finance related to themes like Investments and development finance, Climate Change, Energy, Agriculture, ICT, Infrastructures etc. He has also served as Chair of the Africa Infrastructure Investment FUND (AITF) https://www.eib.org/en/projects/all/20210726 managed by European Investment Bank (EIB). As Director of the European Commission he has authored several policy actions and EU communications and regulations, implemented innovative initiatives on sustainable finance such as Electrifi, Agrifi, promoting the creation of EDFI management company, chaired several investment committees with European Development Finance Institutions and EU Member States investors, and main author/promoter of the first ever policy on private sector for development, https://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-345_en and the innovative External Investment Plan of the EU (now named Global Gateway) with innovative financial approaches including guarantees for private sector investments linked to the SDGs via the European Fund for Sustainable Development https://sdgs.un.org/partnerships/eu-external-investment-plan-eip-including-european-fund-sustainable-development He had been Assistant-Director-General for Programme Support and Technical Cooperation and special Advisor to the DG, at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (2018 up to Sept 2020) where he launched AGRINVEST as well as many initiatives connected to private sector and SDG compliance Twice Ambassador/ Head of delegation of the European Union: from 2005 to 2007 he served in Suva (Fiji), in charge of the relations of the EU with 15 Pacific countries and territories where strategy was on climate change diplomacy, 10 years ahead of COP21. In 2010 he was appointed Ambassador in Uganda (up to 2013) in the first batch of appointments by the newly created European Diplomatic service till September 2013. In Uganda he set up the first equity fund for small agriculture investments (Yield). As Head/ Director of Division at the European Commission he launched successfully new initiatives like the first ever Global private equity fund of funds on renewable and energy efficiency (GEEREF) of which he was co-funder and Chair of the Investment Committee GEEREF https://geeref.com/ managed by the European Investment Fund (EIF-EIB group) He joined the European Union in 1994 and worked as resident development and economic advisor in several delegations of the Union, including Malawi, Namibia and Kosovo where he was Head of Monitoring. Throughout Accession negotiations (2001-2004), he was Principal Coordinator dealing with Environment and Transport in Public-Private-Partnerships (PPP) editor of the Guidelines for successful PPPs Extensive experiences in the field of public finance, blended finance, Finance for development, renewable Energy, Environment and Climate Change, Agriculture, Food security, Human development, external relations Prior to join the EU he had a 10-year career in the private sector as free lance and executive director, with MANAGEMENT experienc