Four 'Rs' for a new sustainability


Rules, Rights, Reputation, Respect. These were the key words that enlivened the round table sponsored by Oil in September 15th at the XXI World Energy Congress held in Montreal from September 12th to the 16th.
Former United States Senator Gary Hart, Daniel Yergin, CERA's president and Pulitzer Prize winner with a book on oil, Moisés Naìm, world famous editorialist and economist, Lucia Annunziata, president of Oil's editorial committee and Claudio Descalzi, CEO of ENI Exploration & Production, debated topics on the Congress' agenda, first among them all sustainability. The discussion was introduced by Gianni Di Giovanni, Oil's editor-in chief and ENI's communications officer. Molly Moore, Vice President of the communications company Sanderson Strategies, acted as moderator for the debate.

Lucia Annunziata
Professional journalist since 1976, Lucia Annunziata was correspondent from the United States for the newspaper il Manifesto and then for La Repubblica, and again for La Repubblica from the Middle East. She was correspondent from El Salvador in 1983. She worked later for Il Corriere della Sera, moving on to the Italian State Tv (RAI) in 1995 (with the program ‘Linea’), and assuming, in August of 1996...next

Claudio Descalzi
Claudio Descalzi is Eni Chief Operating Officer Exploration & Production, President of Assomineraria and Vice President of Confindustria Energy. He joined the Eni group in 1981 as oil/gas field petroleum engineering and project manager, following the development of North Sea, Libya, Nigeria, and Congo fields. In 1990 he was appointed head of operational activities for Italy...next

Gary Hart
Gary Hart served as the Democratic senator representing the state of Colorado from 1974-1987. He also ran in the Democratic primaries for the US presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988. In his thirteen years as a senator he worked on the Defence Commission, the Budget Commission, the Environment Commission and the Senate Intelligence Committee. Since retiring as a political representative...next

Molly Moore
Molly Moore is Senior Vice President of Sanderson Strategies Group, a communications company in Washington, D.C. and Baton Rouge, La., that provides strategic counseling in the fields of politics, business, sports, environment and international affairs. Before joining SSG, Molly spent 27 years as an award-winning reporter and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, where she specialized...next

Moisés Naím
Moisés Naím is Senior Associate in the International Economics program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC. Naím has written extensively on international economics and global politics. He has authored or edited numerous books and his most recent one Illicit: How Smugglers Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy......next

Daniel Yergin
Daniel Yergin is chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), one of the world’s leading consulting and research firms in its field. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his work The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, which became a number one best seller and has been translated into 17 languages. He received also the United States Energy Award for...next