BIOGRAPHY
Alessandro leads the development of McKinsey’s natural-gas knowledge, helping to build a distinctive perspective on gas-market discontinuities, natural gas, and LNG. Alessandro serves clients globally, working across all functions from operations, marketing and sales to corporate finance and organization.
Examples of his recent client engagements include the following:
- Leading the performance transformation of a retail gas and power business in Europe, targeting an improvement of more than €100 million in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization
- Designing a digital lean transformation for a leading European gas transmission system operator including metering, maintenance and operations activities with up to 30 percent improvement in efficiency
- Supporting strategy turnaround and assessing options for a top European gas and power unit, resulting in the restructuring of the company’s business portfolio
- Analysing the EU gas-market-model evolution for a European gas authority
- Developing LNG marketing and sales for one of the top three LNG players in the world, assessing 40 buyers globally
Before joining McKinsey, Alessandro held engineering, sales and business development roles at a subsidiary of General Electric, was a researcher and teacher’s assistant in combustion at Frederick O. Hess Engineering Laboratory at Drexel University.
BIOGRAPHY
Dieter Helm is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford. From 2012 to 2020, he was Independent Chair of the Natural Capital Committee, providing advice to the government on the sustainable use of natural capital. In The Cost of Energy Review, commissioned by the government in 2017, he set out a framework for transitioning the UK energy sector to net zero while maintaining energy security.
Dieter specialises in three key areas: Energy & Climate; Regulation, Utilities & Infrastructure; and Natural Capital & the Environment. He provides extensive expert advice to UK and European governments, regulators and companies across all three areas.
In Legacy: How to Build the Sustainable Economy, Dieter addresses the question: what would the sustainable economy look like and what would it take to live within our environmental means? His new book, Climate Realism (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press), shows why we are failing to address climate change – no transition, wrong target, no such thing as clean energy, renewables are not cheap, offsets don’t work, and there are no get-out-of-jail cards.
Dieter is a Vice President of the Exmoor Society, a Vice President of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, and Honorary Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford.