
Laura Cavatorta - Chairman
Independent director
Born in Treviso in 1964.
She has been Director of Snam since 2 April 2019.
Graduate in sociology with honours. She gained over twenty years of managerial experience in air transport, holding roles of increasing responsibility in the Alitalia group from 1995 to 2017, holding positions of operational responsibility with 3,000-5,000 employees.
She has acquired specific expertise on the phases of restructuring, mergers, acquisitions and receivership, and on impacts, including process re-engineering and HR dynamics, acquiring particular consciousness of the many dimensions involved in each corporate “change”.
She has a keen interest in corporate governance, and in particular has examined ESG matters and the various expressions through which to substantialise an approach aimed at sustainable development over time. She is a follower of the B Corp movement, committed to disseminating a paradigm of sustainable business, able to develop profits while impacting positively on society and the environment.
She supports gender equality, the development of female talent and merit-based careers, believing in the need for full integration of women in all roles of society and their ability to make a significant contribution even in top positions.
She is active in several networks for sustainability and women's empowerment and collaborates in ASviS- Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development, on the Gender Equality objective of the UN Agenda 2030.
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