Chairman of SIMEST S.p.A. and Director of European and International Affairs at Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
Pasquale Salzano has been Chairman of SIMEST S.p.A. and Director of European and International Affairs of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) since December 2019. From November 2020 to November 2021, he was President of the CDP Foundation. CDP is the Italian National Promotional Institution, whose mission includes supporting the development of the Italian entrepreneurial fabric, also internationally, by offering integrated financing, equity and advisory services. After holding various diplomatic positions abroad, in 2011 he was seconded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Eni. From 2017 to 2019, he was the Italian Ambassador to Qatar. In 2010, he was appointed as a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum. He has attended postgraduate courses at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University, the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies at the University of Oxford, and is the author of numerous publications on energy and geopolitics.