A socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events.

The Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events. It was established in pursuance of a decision by the President of the Russian Federation.

The Foundation was established in 2007 with the aim of facilitating the development of Russia’s economic potential, promoting its national interests, and strengthening the country’s image. One of the roles of the Foundation is to comprehensively evaluate, analyse, and cover issues on the Russian and global economic agendas. It also offers administrative services, provides promotional support for business projects and attracting investment, helps foster social entrepreneurship and charitable initiatives.

Each year, the Foundation’s events draw participants from 209 countries and territories, with more than 15,000 media representatives working on-site at Roscongress’ various venues. The Foundation benefits from analytical and professional expertise provided by 5,000 people working in Russia and abroad.

The Foundation works alongside various UN departments and other international organizations, and is building multi-format cooperation with 212 economic partners, including industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions, financial, trade, and business associations from 86 countries worldwide, and 293 Russian public organizations, federal and regional executive and legislative bodies of the Russian Federation.

The Roscongress Foundation has Telegram channels in Russian t.me/Roscongress, English – t.me/RoscongressDirect, Spanish – t.me/RoscongressEsp and Arabic t.me/RosCongressArabic. Official website and Information and Analytical System of the Roscongress Foundation:roscongress.org.

Marco Alvera

Marco Alvera

Chief Executive Officer, Snam SPA
Biography
Marco Alverà is the Chief Executive Officer of Snam S.p.A., Europe’s leading natural gas utility, and Chairman of Snam Rete Gas. Prior to joining Snam in 2016, Marco held a number of senior leadership positions at Eni S.p.A., among them, Head of Eni’s commodities trading and shipping business. He has participated in the upstream, midstream and downstream aspects of the oil and gas industry. Prior to Eni S.p.A., Marco served as Head of Group Strategy at Enel S.p.A., a multinational power company functioning in the gas and electricity sectors, particularly in Europe and Latin America. He also served as Chief Financial Officer of Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.A. and co-founded Netesi, Italy’s first broadband ADSL company. Marco began his career at Goldman Sachs and previously served on the Board of Gazprom Neft, a Russian integrated oil company.

He has served as a Director of S&P Global since March 2017 and is a member of its Financial Policy and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees.
Quotes
06.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Russia–Italy
New opportunities are created. This is about the export of Italian technologies. Snam produces methane compressors for vehicles. Russia’s petroleum production could generate 50 billion euros per year. A million cars are running on methane in Italy. It replaces gasoline. In Russia, gas costs about one USD, compared to USD 18 in Italy. It is a great opportunity for Russia and Italy, which can build enterprises here in cooperation with small and medium-sized businesses. As for hydrocarbons, Russia and Italy together can work on new sources of renewable energy
07.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
The Impact of the Natural Gas Engine on the Economy and Climate
In Italy the situation is pretty good. We have an agreement with Fiat that Snam is going to build gas stations, while Fiat is going to produce [gas-fueled, – Ed.] cars. Now there are 1,300 gas stations in Italy. 1.2 million vehicles, or 5% of all cars, run on gas
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