Manlio F. Coviello received a doctorate (cum Laude) in geophysics (Genoa University) and a master in business administration (Bocconi University, Milan). He is Assistant Professor in energy planning at Catholic University of Chile; and Associate Professor in energy transition and co-coordinator of the international master on climate change at the Polytechnic University of Turin.
Currently, Coviello is chairman of Energy Dome Latam and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Energy Dome spa, Italy. He has been chairman of the Board of TERNA PLUS and President & CEO of Terna Uruguay, Terna Brasil, Terna Chile.
Previously, he was chief of the Energy & Mining Department, Economic Commission for Latin America, United Nations.
Coviello is member of the following Advisory Boards: ENEL Foundation; Energy Center, Polytechnic University Turin, PoliTO; Harvard Electricity Policy Group, Harvard Kennedy School Government, USA; American Business Dialogue Energy & Natural Resources Group, IADB, USA.
In 2012, Coviello acted as senior fellow professor at the IASS (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies) in Potsdam, Germany, working with Nobel Prize in Physics Professor Carlo Rubbia, on advanced materials & technologies for renewable energies and energy storage.
In April 2024, he acted as senior consultant for the Bureau of Intelligence, U.S. Department of State, on nearshoring industry for critical minerals.