Simone RossiChief Executive Officer of EDF Energy and a member of the Executive Committee of EDF Group.

Appointed as CEO in November 2017, Rossi joined EDF in 2004 and had been head of EDF Group's international division since 2015. Prior to that he held a number of roles across the Group including as a former chief financial officer to EDF Energy in the UK; the role of Chief Financial Officer at Constellation Energy Nuclear Group in Baltimore (USA), and five years as Head of Strategy at Edison SpA in Milan (Italy), where he subsequently covered the responsibility of Director of Planning, Control and IT.

Rossi’s early career saw him hold various positions in the financial and management consultancy industries within the Treasury Department of De Agostini in Novara (Italy), KPMG Corporate Finance and McKinsey&Co., Milan (Italy), where he served various Financial Institutions, Industrial and Energy clients.

Simone Rossi has a Degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University, Milan, and a Degree in Clarinet from Istituto Puccini, Gallarate (Italy).