Giancarlo Morandi

Engineer, avid high-altitude mountaineer, and administrator of private companies and public activities. His private professional activity involved working in the industrial sector of energy storage using lead batteries. In this field, he was one of the administrators of the Italian operations of the world's leading group and, in 1990, before his election to the Region, was one of the eight European Coordinators. Representing Italian manufacturers in the field of energy storage, since 1990, he has been Vice President and was elected President on January 13, 2000, of the Mandatory Consortium for the Collection and Recycling of Spent Batteries, established to address the significant issue of lead and its compounds dispersal in the environment. His mandate was reconfirmed until the end of 2016. The Cobat, a private entity based in Rome, now the National Collection and Recycling Consortium, is organized in every Italian province and deals with WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment), ELTs (End-of-Life Tires), batteries, and photovoltaic panels. He is a member of the Presidency of the "Foundation for Sustainable Development" and the "National Council of the Green Economy." He represents Cobat on the Executive Committee of the National Coordination Center for Batteries and Accumulators (CDCNPA). In 2012, he was awarded the "Targa d’Oro per la Terra" by Pro Natura along with Green Cross, the foundation chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev, for "the constant support and promotion of scientific research and environmental protection," the only recognition given in Italy on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the international meeting in Rio de Janeiro. Previously, Giancarlo Morandi was President of the Institute for Foreign Trade of Lombardy, a member of the Board of Directors of Finlombarda, and Vice President of Lombardia Risorse S.p.A. He was also a founding member of Tecnologie Lombarde, a consortium established by the Milan Chamber of Commerce and private and public companies to enhance the image of Lombardy's industrial companies abroad; a member of the Board of Directors of Selenia S.p.A.; CEO of Saem S.p.A., Troken S.r.l., and Fulmen S.r.l.