Chicco Testa (born 5 January 1952 in

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) is an

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politician. He graduated in philosophy at the Università Statale in

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(1976). He lives in

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and has two sons.

Environmentalist and politician for PCI and PDS

From 1980 to 1987 Testa was National Secretary and then National President of

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environmentalist association. As such, Testa leads the environmentalist mobilization in

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after the

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, reaching its high in the manifestation of May 10, 1986 with more than 200,000 people. More than 1 million signatures are gathered to present an anti-nuclear referendum, passed in 1987, following which Italian nuclear plants were decommissioned. From 1987 to 1994 for two legislatures, he was elected to the

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in the lists of the

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(PCI) in 1987 and of the Democratic Left Party (PDS) in 1992, seating in the parliamentary commission for the

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and the territory. From 1994 to 1996 he was Chairman of the Board of ACEA (Rome’s Electricity and Water Co.)

Management activities

From 1996 to 2002 he was Chairman of the Board of

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Spa, the most important Electrical Italian Company. During this period, Enel was

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(Europe’s largest-ever IPO of 15 billion Euro) and in 1997 there was the start- up of

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, the third TLC Italian Company in which Testa was elected member of the Board of Directors. From 2002 to 2004 he was Member of the Board of Directors of the Riello group, Italian leader company in heating systems and appliances. From 2002 to 2005 he was Member of the Advisory Board of Carlyle Europe, affiliate of

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(Private Equity), Chairman of the Board of Directors of STA Spa (The Mobility Agency of the City of Rome) and Chairman of the Kyoto Club (non-profit organization whose purpose is the achievement of the objectives set by the

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). At present Testa is

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Spa. Also he is member of the board of directors of

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Spa, Chairman of the Board of

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Communications Plc and Chairman of the Board of E.V.A. – Energie Valsabbia – a company developing hydropower generation plants. He has been also Chairman of Organising Committee of the 20th World Energy Congress, promoted by WEC,

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and held in Rome in November 2007.

Journalistic and academic activities

Testa is a

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and he contributes to some of the most important daily and weekly Italian

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s. He was lecturer at the LUISS School Management in Rome (MBA Program Economics and Management in Public Utilities) and he was Lecturer at the

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and

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and

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subjects. Together with Fabio Corsico and

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, he's member of the board of "Formiche" (Ants), a printed and online cultural and editorial magazine dealing with politics, economics, geographic, environmental and cultural issues, established in 2004 by

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Lobbyist for the return to nuclear power in Italy

In 2008 he wrote a book “Tornare al Nucleare?, L’Italia, l’energia, l’ambiente” (''Back to Nuclear Energy? Italy, Energy, Environment''), published by

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. Since July 2010 Testa is Chairman of the ''Forum Nucleare Italiano'' (Italian Nuclear Forum): a non-profit organisation comprising industrialists and universities, with the aim of reviving the public opinion debate about nuclear energy, to which Italy renounced in 1987 after a referendum. All the major energy industries, as well as some universities and a pair of centrist trade unions, are taking part in the FNI:

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power,

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nucleare,

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, E.On, Edf, Edison,

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- Università di Roma,

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, Stratinvest Energy,

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, Tecnimont,

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, Uilcem,

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, Università di Palermo,

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20090711162351/http://www.chiccotesta.it/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Testa, Chicco 1952 births Living people Italian bankers