Description

Senior Environmental & Sustainability leader with 20+ years’ international experience. Partners with executives to embed ESG into corporate strategy, de-risk operations through proactive risk management and regulatory readiness, and leads transformation and circularity programs that deliver measurable value

- Champions Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) leadership

Leads the ideation of ESG strategies by seamlessly integrating sustainability with corporate strategy, leveraging it to drive growth, resilient operations, and robust risk management, while prioritizing material topics and value creation.

- Strategically mitigates ESG risks

Strengthens business resilience through proactive ESG risk management, identifying emerging risks, ensuring regulatory compliance, and integrating effective mitigation strategies.

- Leads sustainable transformation

Acts as a change agent, inspiring and empowering teams to drive sustainable transformation. Leads high-impact initiatives that enhance operational efficiency and a sustainability-driven culture, positioning the organization as a forward-looking industry leader.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

Italian
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Dubai (up to 50km)

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Climate & Sustainability (C&S) Knowledge & Capability Lead
January 2025 - January 2026 (1 year)
Middle East
Appointed to establish and scale BCG's C&S Knowledge Team in the Middle East—building an embedded capability that strengthens proposal excellence, accelerates delivery, and codifies repeatable Intellectual Property (IP) across priority topics.
• ▪ Built and scaled a high-performing team from inception to operational readiness; recruited 4 members in 6 months and implemented structured coaching, quality, and development routines to accelerate capability.
• ▪ Created a repeatable IP engine to improve consistency and shorten "proposal → delivery" cycles.
• ▪ Served as a senior thought partner to leadership and project teams on sustainability transformation, from design to implementation, supporting priority pursuits and delivery quality across the GCC market.
• ▪ Kicked off a visibility and engagement agenda to increase adoption of the Knowledge Team in the ME.
• ▪ Spearheaded cross-regional collaboration initiatives to unify knowledge-sharing practices, broadening access to sustainability expertise and resources across regions.
Boston Consulting Group
Expert Project Leader, Climate and Sustainability (C&S)
October 2023 - December 2024 (1 year and 2 months)
Middle East
Senior client-facing role delivering C&S engagements across the GCC—owning end-to-end case leadership, team direction, and senior stakeholder management to drive implementation-ready outcomes across ESG strategy, reporting, and sustainability transformation priorities.
Selected impact (client names confidential)
• ▪ Led the development of ESG strategies for regional corporations and urban mega projects, including materiality, positioning, governance, risk management, capability requirements, flagship initiatives and targets, and roadmap design.
• ▪ Supported a GCC government's economic diversification beyond hydrocarbons by identifying 'right to win' sectors, analysing emerging trends, developing business cases, and benchmarking enabling policies
• ▪ Drove design of a first GRI aligned ESG report for a KSA mega project, shaping the reporting approach, governance, and cross entity coordination.
• ▪ Advised a GCC utility on a corporate strategy refresh, integrating sustainability and sustainability transformation priorities into strategic choices.
• ▪ Developed a GHG emissions management system for a GCC mega-project, including Scope 1-3 emissions and a tool to identify and manage emission hot spots while achieving company reduction goals
• ▪ Co-authored LinkedIn article providing an in-depth analysis of key insights from recent work initiatives: Unlocking the Strategic Potential of Emissions Performance Management for Urban Projects in the Middle East
Various Organizations,
Independent Project Manager
September 2020 - September 2023 (3 years)
Bahrain
Worked with international and regional clients seeking to further their sustainability and environmental agendas.
Selected impact
• ▪ Assessed and supported mitigation of environmental and social impacts of a new WWTP in Italy on behalf of Suez, a French-based utility company for construction and operation phases.
• ▪ Evaluated carbon footprint as part of bid phase for implementation of upgrading sections of two Italian biogas plants for Suez (LNG and CNG); the process was carried out aligned with international standards.
Developed materiality assessments, sustainability frameworks and ESG reports in alignment with GRI and SASB for organization in the GCC.
• ▪ Outlined processesfor an O&Gcompany in Africato comply with locallaws andinternational standards