Franco Bernabè is an independent non-executive Director of the Company.

Mr. Bernabè holds a doctorate degree in political economics and is the chief executive officer of Telecom Italia (serving a second time). Prior to that, he held the responsibilities of the managing partner and founder of the Franco Bernabè Group, the vice chairman of H3G, the vice chairman of Rothschild Europe, a non-executive director of Pininfarina SPA and an independent non-executive director of Areoportidi Bologna. Mr. Bernabè joined ENI in 1983 to become an assistant to the chairman; in 1986 he became director for development, planning and control; and between 1992 and 1998 was the chief executive officer of ENI. Mr. Bernabè led the restructuring program of the ENI Group, making it one of the world’s most profitable oil companies. Between 1998 and 1999, Mr. Bernabè was the chief executive officer of Telecom Italia. Between 1999 and 2000, he has also served as a special representative of the Italian government for the reconstruction of Kosovo. He was the chairman of La Biennale di Venezia from 2001 to 2003 and has been the chairman of the Modern Arts Museum of Trento and Rovereto since 2005. Prior to his joining ENI, Mr. Bernabè was the head of economic studies at FIAT. Mr. Bernabè was a senior economist at the OECD Department of Economics and Statistics in Paris. Prior to that, he was a professor of economic politics at the School of Industrial Administration, Turin University. He had also served on the Advisory Board of the Council of Foreign Relations and is currently an international governor of the Peres Center for Peace. Mr. Bernabè has been appointed as an independent non-executive Director of the Company since June 2000.