Roger-Philippe Bertozzi has a solid experience in the aluminium industry. He is the co-founder of the Federation of Aluminium Consumers in Europe ( FACE ), created in 1999 by leading European aluminium transformers to support the competitiveness and the sustainability of the independent EU downstream aluminium industry. He has also been advising for the past 20 years the aluminium industries of the GCC ( Arab Gulf States ) and of Russia. From July 2017 to June 2022, Roger Bertozzi was senior advisor of UC RUSAL, the world’s leading low- carbon aluminium company, for European and Multilateral Affairs. Mr Bertozzi, who studied philosophy at the Sorbonne University and at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, has in-deep and extensive experience in international affairs and multilateral negotiations, especially in relations with the European Institutions and in trade and climate diplomacy. For more than 17 years he has been advising GCC governments and industries with a focus on Free Trade Agreements, World Trade Organisation and Euro-Arab cooperation. In particular, he has been a senior advisor and negotiator for the United Arab Emirates Ministries of Economy and Planning and then of Foreign Trade, including for the negotiation of the EU-GCC Free Trade Agreement and as UAE Delegate to the WTO, where he created and coordinated the Sectoral Initiative on Raw Materials and co-sponsored the sectoral initiative on the liberalisation of environmental goods and services. He has been the permanent representative for the GCC of the Parliamentary Association for Euro- Arab Cooperation ( PAEAC ) and, as an expert, he has been regularly consulted by the EU Commission and the EU Parliament on EU-GCC relations. He was also member of the board of the CCMO ( International Middle-East Researchers Association) and president of the European Institute for Research on Mediterranean and Euro-Arab Cooperation ( MEDEA ), a Brussels-based think-tank. Mr Bertozzi is currently the vice-president of the EnergyPact Foundation, a Vienna-based organisation dealing with Energy-Climate-Environment-Development issues and the strategies of emerging powers, with a focus on the security of critical infrastructures and cybersecurity. Strongly involved for decades in the sphere of international conferences as organiser, adviser or speaker, he created, inter alia, the first Brussels Summit on the role of Sovereign Wealth Funds for growth and development and, as EnergyPact VP, and in partnership with UNCTAD and the Asian Development Bank ( ADB ), the first international conference on the role of emerging powers in the transition to the green economy, at the UN Headquarters in Geneva, as well as a conference on the new roles of the Global South to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Non-Aligned Movement. From 2015 to 2017 he has been special adviser of the Moroccan government in the context of the multilateral Presidencies of the UN Climate Conferences COP21 in Paris and COP22 in Marrakech. His international experience has covered the fields of defense and security, research and technology, industrial development, international trade negotiations, relations with the European Union, energy and climate change,cultural institutions, the United Nations system and multilateral affairs ( UN, WTO,UNESCO, UNCTAD, WHO, UNFCCC, OECD, UNAOC ).