Vania De Stefani

Vania has spent over 20 years in the oil and gas business with professional experience in engineering, operations and process safety. Vania began her career at Imperial College as the head of the scientific team developing fire and explosion models. She continued to become an executive and has spent the majority of her career working for BP, most recently as the Vice President of Operations for Mauritania and Senegal. She has worked in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East while leading teams that were geographically and culturally diverse. Vania played a key role in the response to the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico and has led operational crises in other regions. In 2023 she was appointed CEO of Oil Spill Response Limited.

Vania holds a Master's degree in Process Engineering from the University of Padua and a PhD in Thermophysics from Ecole Nationale Superieure de Mines de Paris.