Pier Lorenzo Dell’Orco

Pier Lorenzo Dell’Orco holds a Master’s Degree (honours) in Mechanical Engineering from La Sapienza University of Rome, a Postgraduate Diploma in Finance, Administration, Control from the University of Pisa, and an Executive Certificate in Management & Leadership from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston.
He has been working in the energy sector for thirty years.

Since 2020 he has been Chief Executive Officer of Italgas Reti, the largest subsidiary of the Italgas group, the leading gas distribution operator in Italy and one of the largest in Europe with over 130,000 km of managed network and approximately 11 million active meters.

In 2025, he was unanimously elected President of Proxigas – Associazione Nazionale Industriali Gas (National Association of Gas Industrialists) – the main Confindustria association in the sector, after having been its Vice-President in charge of the gas distribution chain.

In 2024, he was appointed as a member of the governing board of Eurogas, the leading trade association of European gas industries, which has over 100 member companies on the continent.

Since 2023 he has been a member of the Consultation Committee of the PhD in Energy of the Polytechnic University of Turin, an institution with which he has been actively collaborating for years on numerous energy-related study, research and development fronts. Since the end of 2024, he has also been a member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Excellence 2023-27 for the energy and digital transition of the Politecnico di Torino.

Within the Italgas group, he has previously held the position of director of various subsidiaries active in the distribution and sale of gas and energy efficiency.

He participated in the M&A initiative relating to the privatization of Greece’s gas distribution networks, which saw in September 2022 the acquisition by the Italgas group of the entire stake held by the Greek State in the Depa Infrastructure corporate group, now Enaon, of which he was appointed Chairman in 2025.
Previously, he held strategic management roles in other leading national companies in the energy sector, listed and unlisted, acquiring a deep knowledge of infrastructure and the energy market.
From 2007 to 2016 he worked in Sorgenia S.p.A., holding roles of increasing responsibility in the commercial field, first as the Head of Business Development, then as the Director of Customer Management and finally as the Sales & Marketing Director, holding full responsibility for the commercial marketing and sale of electricity, gas and value-added services to end customers.

From 2004 to 2007 he was the Head of Engineering at Edipower S.p.A., leading the design and awarding of EPC contracts for the implementation of projects for the repowering of the electricity production plants, previously managed by ENEL.

From 1995 to 2004 he was a Project Manager at Edison S.p.A., leading projects for the construction of new power plants based on combined cycle technology powered by natural gas.