Alberto Clò
{{Short description|Italian businessman, politician and academic (born 1947)}}
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| primeminister = Lamberto Dini
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| term_start = 17 January 1995
| term_end = 16 May 1996
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| alma_mater = University of Bologna
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Alberto Clò (born 1947) is an Italian businessman, politician and academic. He served as minister of industry from 1995 to 1996. He was also director of the Italian company Eni SpA.
Early life and education
Clò was born in 1947.{{cite magazine|title=Profile|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/alberto-clo/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130828061242/http://www.forbes.com/profile/alberto-clo/|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 August 2013|access-date=28 August 2013|magazine=Forbes}} He holds a political sciences degree from the University of Bologna.{{cite web|title=Alberto Clo|url=http://www.walkersresearch.com/A/Alberto__Clo_100008975.html|work=Walker's Research|access-date=28 August 2013}}
Career
Clò worked as a full professor of applied economics at the department of economics at the University of Bologna where he was promoted to the rank of associate professor of industrial economy in 1987.{{cite book|title=Energy and Climate Change|date=7 September 2017|url=https://www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815272928|publisher=il Mulino|access-date=26 April 2022}} In 1980 he founded and edited a magazine entitled Energia.{{cite book|title=Oil Economics and Policy|isbn=0792379063 |author=Alberto Clo|date=31 August 2000|publisher=Springer }} He served as minister of industry from 17 January 1995 to 16 May 1996 and acting interim minister of foreign trade in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Lamberto Dini. In addition, Clò was the president of the council of industry and energy ministers of the European Union during the six-month Italian presidency in the same period.
Clò was the director of Eni SpA since June 1999 and also former director of various other firms including Atlantia SpA, Italcementi SpA, De Longhi SpA and IREN SpA. In April 2012, Clò was appointed the Advanced Capital's special advisor for investments in the energy sector.{{cite web|title=Advanced Capital taps ex-italian minister as Advisor|work=Advanced Capital|url=http://www.advancedcapital.com/en/media/in-the-news/advanced-capital-taps-ex-italian-minister-as-advisor|access-date=28 August 2013|date=5 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214112118/http://www.advancedcapital.com/en/media/in-the-news/advanced-capital-taps-ex-italian-minister-as-advisor|archive-date=14 December 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} In 2013, he was named independent director of the Snam SpA.{{cite news|title=Snam SpA People|url=https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyOfficers?symbol=SRG.MI|access-date=28 August 2013|work=Reuters}}
Works
- {{Cite book |title=Oil Economics and Policy |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |year=2000 |isbn=978-0792379065}}
- {{Cite book |title=Economia e politica del petrolio |publisher=Compositori |year=2002 |isbn=978-8877942203}}
- {{Cite book |title=Lezioni di economia industriale |publisher=Dupress |year=2003 |isbn=978-8886909488}}
- {{Cite book |title=Il rebus energetico |publisher=Il Mulino |year=2008 |isbn=978-8815115140 |ref=Clo2008}}
- {{Cite book |title=Appunti di economia industriale |publisher=Il Mulino |year=2009 |isbn=978-8886909709}}
- {{Cite book |title=Si fa presto a dire nucleare |year=2010 |publisher=Il Mulino |isbn=978-8815146359}}
- {{Cite book |title=Appunti di economia delle public utilities |publisher=Dupress |year=2012 |isbn=978-8895451626}}
- {{Cite book |title=Energia e clima. L'altra faccia della medaglia |publisher=Il Mulino |year=2017 |isbn=978-8815272928}}
- {{Cite book |title=Il ricatto del gas russo. Ragioni e responsabilità |publisher=Il Sole 24 Ore |year=2022 |isbn=979-1254840436}}
= Translated works =
- {{Cite book |title=Vivere con l'incertezza. Il problema dell'energia nel mondo contemporaneo. |author=Hans H. Landsberg |display-authors=et al. |editor=Alberto Clò |year=1986 |publisher=Il Mulino}}Clo2008, pp. 231-232
Awards
Clò has been awarded Cavaliere di Gran Croce (Knight of Great Cross) of the Republic of Italy in 1996.
References
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Category:20th-century Italian businesspeople
Category:20th-century Italian economists
Category:21st-century Italian businesspeople
Category:Government ministers of Italy
Category:Italian magazine founders
Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Category:University of Bologna alumni