Angelo Richiello

Angelo Richiello is a global trend analyst at Aspenia online. He is also an engineer and the director of Zhu+Rich Sagl, a consultancy firm in business strategy, development, and organization based in Switzerland. Over the past 25 years he has been involved in industrial and organizational projects in Europe, Asia, and North America. He writes on topics such as industrial development, natural resources, energy, and the environment.

The geopolitics of rare earths: how to counter China’s dominance

A few days before Donald Trump ceded the Oval Office to Joe Biden, Beijing drew its sword when the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology declared that it is soliciting public opinion to further strengthen regulation over the rare…

Biden’s energy transition challenge

In living memory, never in any campaign for the presidential elections in the United States have energy policies played such an important role as in the one that has just ended. Evidently, the factual and objective question of climate…

La corsa dei supercomputer e le eccellenze (anche) italiane

L’Italia è tornata nella lista dei luoghi dove sono presenti i dieci supercomputer più potenti al mondo. Grazie al supercomputer HPC5 al Green Data Center di ENI e al Marconi-100 alla sede bolognese del consorzio interuniversitario Cineca,…

How Germany is tackling a delicate phase in its energy transition

The annual Petersburg Climate Dialogue was held on April 27th and 28th, not in its usual Berlin format as a world congress with in-the-flesh government officials from more than thirty countries, but in videoconference mode. Participants…

The auto industry in a changing economy

A few days after Mary Barra had been appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors, she said that she expected to see more change in the auto industry in the next five years than in the last fifty. That was in 2014.…

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