Andrea is an Oil & Gas executive with a focus on emerging countries and has 30 years’ experience in advising governments in financial, industrial, and energy-related matters. Andrea has strong expertise and experience in structuring and negotiating contracts in the international markets, specifically in the oil industry. He also has significant experience in former emerging countries and arranged the first USD loan to Vietnam at the beginning of his financial career in 1985. Andrea holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Genoa and a postgraduate degree in Taxation Law from the University of Bologna.
He is a former member of the Business Advisory Council to the Great Tumen Initiative, a United Nations project for regional economic cooperation for some Northeast Asia countries (China, Russia, South Korea and Mongolia). He is a director and a founder of Zenith Energy Ltd, an energy company and an operator, producing oil, natural gas and electricity.