About Me
Elisabeth Rizzotti is a physicist and a business leader.
After a degree in Physics from Università degli Studi in Turin and a brief spell at CERN, she embraced the world of business, joining Accenture in strategic consulting for financial sector clients.
She then spent five years at Banca Lombarda and subsequently moved to UBI Banca, at the time the fifth largest banking group in Italy by number of branches, where she showed her managerial expertise and drive for innovation in various leadership roles. In 2017 she became Head of Communications, a role she held through a crucial period for the bank, leading the incorporation of UBI Banca into Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's largest international banking group by total assets.
In 2021, Elisabeth returned to her first love of physics: combining her scientific background and her strong business and leadership skills, she co-founded newcleo, a company with the goal of disrupting the field of nuclear energy, generating safe, clean and sustainable nuclear energy through the combination of existing technologies at competitive costs.
At newcleo Elisabeth is in charge of global operations as Chief Operating Officer, overseeing newcleo’s operations in the UK and France, and she also serves as Managing Director for Italy.
Hear My Insights
Splitting Atoms: Should We Go Nuclear?
In the face of the mounting climate crisis, the hunt for clean, reliable energy solutions has intensified. Nuclear power, with its ability to generate massive amounts of electricity without greenhouse gas emissions, has emerged as a controversial yet potentially game-changing contender. In this session, we hear from one of the founders of newcleo, a unicorn building new reactors, on the innovations marking the sector, nuclear energy’s economic viability in the long term, and the safety concerns that continue to spark debate.