Francesco Starace has been Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Enel S.p.A. since May 2014.
Starace joined the Enel Group in 2000, holding several top executive positions including Head of Business Power (from 2002 to 2005) and Managing Director of the Market Division (from 2005 to 2008). From 2008 to 2014, he served as CEO and General Manager of Enel Green Power, the Group’s renewable power generation subsidiary and a leading player in the global renewables industry.
Ealier on, he began his career in construction management of power generation plants, first with the General Electric Group, then at ABB Group, and subsequently at Alstom Power Corporation, where he was Head of Gas Turbine Sales Worldwide. He also gained considerable international professional experience by working in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and the United States.
Since June 2014, he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations’ Sustainable Energy 4 All initiative. In May 2015, he joined the Board of Directors of the United Nations’ Global Compact. From January 2016 until January 2018, he was co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Energy Utilities and Energy Technologies Community. In October 2016, he was nominated co-chair of the B20 Climate & Resource Efficiency Task Force. From June 2017 to May 2019, he served as President of Eurelectric, the European association for the electricity industry.
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan.