Riccardo Angelini Rota

Riccardo Angelini Rota serves as an Adjunct Professor at Luiss Business School while holding the executive position of VP Sustainability and Head of Climate and Environmental Strategy at Leonardo S.p.A.

His academic credentials include a PhD in Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome (2024), with over two years as a Visiting Scholar at MIT where he developed Artificial Intelligence models for Lagrangian calculations on supercomputers. He previously completed an Executive MBA at Luiss Business School (2020) and served as a Visiting Scientist at Virginia Tech University (2018).

Professor Angelini Rota specializes in Sustainability, ESG frameworks, Circular Economy, and Climate Strategy, with research extending into computational methods for environmental applications. His work bridges advanced engineering approaches with practical business sustainability implementation.

He holds significant governance positions including membership on the Board of Directors for both the Interuniversity Consortium for Environmental Sciences (CINSA) and the Climate and Sustainability Foundation (FCS).

• Fortune Italia's list of 40 most influential managers under 40 in Italy (2021)

In his corporate role, he leads Leonardo S.p.A.'s comprehensive Climate and Environmental Strategy while representing the company at Confindustria's ESG Sustainability and Transition Committee and the Alliance for Zero Emission Aviation in Brussels, demonstrating strong industry leadership in sustainability implementation.