Head of Sector for Energy Efficiency, Smart Cities and new European Bauhaus
European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA)
Annarita has worked in the EU Commission for 11 years. She is the Head of Sector for Energy Efficiency, Smart Cities and new European Bauhaus, in CINEA, the EU Commission agency for energy and climate. Her team covers a portfolio of EU financed projects in these areas. Some of the projects are funded under the Built4People partnership.
Prior to joining the Commission, Annarita worked for over 10 years for Shell Plc, where she had technical and financial roles in developments of natural gas and LNG infrastructure projects. In her last role in Shell, she was responsible to invest in start-ups and SMEs developing solutions for the integration of gas and cleantech in residential and commercial buildings, as well as in the urban environment.
Annarita holds a Master in Theoretical Chemistry, from the University of East Anglia, and a joint PhD in Materials Engineering and Physics from Imperial College London.