• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Riccardo Puliti

The World Bank

Senior Director, Energy and Extractive Industries Global Practice

Riccardo Puliti, Senior Director and Head of the Energy and Extractive Industries Global Practice, World Bank Group, joined the company in November 2016. In this role, he leads a team of 400 professionals in their work developing policies and financing in the global energy and extractive industries. The Energy and Extractives practice has a portfolio of approximately $40 billion. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Mr. Puliti was the Managing Director in charge of Energy and Extractive Industries at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, leading a group of 100 professionals with a portfolio of approximately €11 billion. Mr. Puliti started his career at Istituto Mobiliare Italiano in 1987 before moving to Banque Indosuez and NM Rothschild, where he worked in equity capital markets, always in the energy and infrastructure sectors. During his career, he has been a nominee or independent member of the board of several energy and extractive companies, including OMV Petrom (where he chaired its Risk and Audit Committee), Interrao OJSC, Irkutsk Oil, and Iberdrola Poland. Mr. Puliti holds an MBA from Instituto Superior de Estudios de la Empresa (IESE), as well as postgraduate studies at the Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University) and Imperial College. He is fluent in five European languages.

Sessions With Riccardo Puliti

Thursday, 14 March

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm (CST) / -

    Emerging Economies: Reinventing the power sector in Africa

    Panel Power Geopolitics/Energy Policy/Economics

    As emerging markets take the lead in power demand growth and renewable capacity additions, they will serve as testbeds for new technologies and market structures. Government, developer, investor, and other stakeholders discuss how transitioning economies will reform power sectors in the age of digitalization and electrification. How can they balance long-term resource adequacy and price stability with decentralized and distributed options? What level of revenue risk does an investor perceive in a newly restructured and privatized power market?