Chicco Testa

Chicco Testa is an Italian manager. He was born in Bergamo on January 5, 1952 and graduated in philosophy at the Università Statale in Milano (1976). He lives in Rome and he has two sons.

From 1980 to 1987 Testa was National Secretary and then National President of Legambiente environmentalist association. As such, Testa leads the environmentalist mobilization in Italy after the Chernobyl disaster, reaching its high in the manifestation of May 10, 1986 with more than 200,000 people. More than 1 million signatures are gathered to present an anti-nuclear referendum, passed in 1987, following which Italian nuclear plants were decommissioned.

From 1987 to 1994 for two legislatures, he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the lists of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1987 and of the Democratic Left Party (PDS) in 1992, seating in the parliamentary commission for the environment and the territory.

From 1994 to 1996 he was Chairman of the Board of ACEA (Rome’s Electricity and Water Co.)

From 1996 to 2002 he was Chairman of the Board of Enel Spa, the most important Electrical Italian Company. During this period, Enel was privatized (Europe’s largest-ever IPO of 15 billions Euro) and in 1997 there was the start- up of Wind, the third TLC Italian Company in which Testa was elected member of the Board of Directors.

From 2002 to 2004 he was Member of the Board of Directors of the Riello group, Italian leader company in heating systems and appliances.

From 2002 to 2005 he was Member of the Advisory Board of Carlyle Europe, affiliate of The Carlyle Group (Private Equity), Chairman of the Board of Directors of STA Spa (The Mobility Agency of the City of Rome) and Chairman of the Kyoto Club (non-profit organization whose purpose is the achievement of the objectives set by the ).

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