The Director General for Global Issues of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Massimo Gaiani, and the Permanent Representative, Alessandro Busacca, attended the 254th meeting of the Governing Board of the International Energy Agency. The Italian delegation actively contributed to the discussions on the preparation of the 2017 Ministerial, the progress in the development of the Agency’s global relations, its contributions to the G7 and G20 processes and the recent 8th Ministerial of the CEM, of which it hosts the Secretariat, and the outcomes of the last IEA energy reports and the next ones planned.