Raimondo Orsini

Director, Sustainable Development Foundation

Director of the Sustainable Development Foundation since 2008, a not-for-profit organization based in Rome, funded by more than 130 companies, business associations and experts. The Foundation cooperates with governments, private corporations and institutions through technical studies, research, events and consultancy. Its fields of action are: climate, energy sustainable mobility, circular economy, natural capital, green cities, company reporting and environmental strategies.

The Foundation is stakeholder organization of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), member of UN Global Compact Italy Network and the Institute for European Environmental Policy, Italian member of the association “Transport and Environment”, research partner of International Energy Agency (IEA), IFEU, International Union of Railways (UIC) and other international bodies.

He has a long experience in sustainability issues: he graduated in environmental law, with a Master degree in sustainable transport systems. From 1999 to 2005 he was leader of Trenitalia environment team and from 2005 to 2008 was senior environment and sustainability advisor at International Union of Railways (UIC) in Paris.

Lecturer and speaker in international conferences on climate and sustainability, he has published a number or articles on environmental issues as well as on the green transition of companies.