Carlos Alberto Bulgheroni is an Argentine businessman prominent in the nation"s energy sector.
Background
Carlos Bulgheroni was born in Rufino, Santa Fe Province, to a Spanish mother and an Italian father. He joined his father Alejandro in Bridas Corporation, founded by the Bulgheroni family in 1948 and by the 1970s one of the largest private firms in the Argentine energy sector.
Education
University of Buenos Aires.
Career
He enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, and earned a juris doctor in 1970. Bulgheroni developed lymphoma at age 24, but recovered. Carlos Bulgheroni became the firm"s chief political point man, establishing good working relationships with the various administrations in power since 1983.
He was named president and chairman in 1993.
President of the Boite Postale-controlled Pan American Energy in 1997. Of Allis-Chalmers"s energy unit in 2006.
And of EDIC, a company specializing in the exploration and production of oil and natural gas in the North African, Russian, Central Asian, and Middle and Far Eastern markets. Bulgheroni obtained, in 1992, some of the first gas exploration concessions granted in Turkmenistan to a foreign energy company.
He was further involved during 1997 in negotiations between Bridas and the ruling Taliban faction in Afghanistan to build the Transport-Afghanistan Gas Pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan.
These negotiations were in competition with those undertaken by Unocal, and although an agreement with Unocal-led corporation CentGas was reached, the deal was forfeited in January 1998 in favor of one with Bridas. Instability in Afghanistan delayed construction of the pipeline, however, and following the United States Invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, the Bridas contract was rescinded in favor of the former one with Unocal. In 2006, Bulgheroni indicated interest in Bridas" involvement with the Transport-Afghanistan Pipeline project, which continued to be hampered by the ongoing chaos in the Central Asian nation.
At Center for Strategic and International Studies , in addition to acting as a trustee, he also serves as an international councillor and a senior adviser to the Space Exploration Initiative.
He previously served as co-chairman of the International Committee at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and currently serves as a member there. The Bulgheroni brothers sold a 50% stake in Bridas to Chinese oil giant CNOOC in 2010 for United States$3.1 billion.
They retained a 20% stake in Pan American Energy (whose operations in Argentina had grown to become the nation"s second-largest) through Bridas.
Membership
He is also a member of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, the Foundation for Latin American Economic Research (FIEL), the Peres Center for Peace, the Argentine Russian Business Council, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Center for Strategic and International Studies ). Previously, Bulgheroni served as president of the Argentine Business Council, as a member of the Business Advisory Board of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, as president and representative for Mercosur from 1990 to 2002 for the Mercosur European Business Forum, and as a member of the Executive Board of the Interstate Commerce Commission in Paris.