Alfio Fontana

Carrefour Italy

Responsible for Corporate Social Responsibility and Energy Manager

Energy Manager of the Carrefour Italy, global leader of GDO companies with over 1.100 stores in Italy, is also responsible for Corporate Social Responsibility. His attention is mainly focused on the development and implementation of technologies and systems for energy efficiency and on the reduction of polluting emissions. The development, implementation and dissemination of Corporate Social Responsibility policies are an integral part of his work and are well suited to the role of Energy Manager.

He attended several advanced training courses in electrical system design and Energy management, not least the "Executive Energy Management" course at MIP, Business School of the Politecnico of Milan.

Within the "Energy and Sustainability" work group of Federdistribuzione, he is the author of many speeches and monographs in Energy Management at the Politecnico of Milan, the University of Verona and industry conferences.

Among the most important projects realized it can be found: the Full LED lighting and the Full CO2 food refrigeration implemented on most of the Carrefour stores. The achievement of the ISO 50001 certification for the Energy Management System of the entire Carrefour Italy network is the latest success.

Member of the Advisory Board of “Forum Retail” and “Retail & Food Energy”, his main objective is to make colleagues and customers aware and prepared for a rational use of energy resources.

He defines himself as "Energy Manager by profession, Energy Coach by passion". Passion in his work and the curiosity in the observation of human behaviours make, many of the activities carried out by him, go in the direction of stimulating the change towards a sustainable consumption of energy resources always protecting the environment.