Monica de Virgiliis

Monica is a Senior Expert and the former chairwoman of Snam, Italy’s main gas transporter

She is an Italian business leader and board director with a career spanning high-tech industries and energy transformation.

She began her career in 1993 as a manufacturing engineer at Magneti Marelli (Fiat Group), before joining the French Commission for Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy (CEA) in 1996, where she developed partnerships with Italian companies. From 2001 to 2015, she held senior roles at STMicroelectronics in Geneva, including General Manager of the Wireless Multimedia Division and Corporate Director of Strategy and Development, followed by a role as Managing Director of the Industrial Microcontroller Division at Infineon Technologies in Munich (2015–2017).

Since 2017, she has applied her technology and industrial expertise to the energy transition, serving as Chief Strategy Officer of the CEA in Paris (2017–2019) and building an extensive board portfolio across the energy and industrial sectors. She chaired Snam, a leading global energy infrastructure company, from 2022 to 2025, and has served on the boards of Prysmian, Saras, and Stevanato Group. She is currently an Independent Director of Air Liquide (since 2023) and Georg Fischer, and is the founder of Chapter Zero France, a climate governance initiative for board directors.

She holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino.