Aurelio Regina is Vice-President and shareholder of Manifatture Sigaro Toscano (MST) and Partner at Egon Zehnder International, the world-leading company in the Executive search. He served as President of MST from 2006 to 2018.
Graduated with honors in Political Science from the Libera Università degli Studi Sociali in Rome, he was an assistant at the Chair of Methods for the Resolution of International Conflicts as well as an Assistant at the Chair of Global Strategy at the Army War College and, in 1986, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York for issues related to Middle Eastern conflicts. In 1988, he was Head of Communication and Public Institution Relations and Legislative Studies at Procter & Gamble Italy. In 1991, he was appointed Director of Corporate Affairs Italy for the Philip Morris Companies Group and later Managing Director of Philip Morris Corporate Services Inc. and Managing Director of Philip Morris srl.
From 2008 to 2012, he served as President of Unindustria - Union of Industrialists and Enterprises of Rome, Frosinone, Rieti, and Viterbo (formerly Union of Industrialists and Enterprises of Rome) and President of Confindustria Lazio. He was also Board Member of British American Tobacco Italy, a company within the BAT group, a multinational tobacco company, and he served as President of Sistemi & Automazione S.p.A. and as a Board Member of Sviluppo Italia S.p.A.
From 2011 to 2016, he was first President and then Vice President of Credit Suisse Italy S.p.A. He was a Board Member of Sole 24 Ore and Valentino Fashion Group. From 2012 to 2014, he was Vice President of Confindustria with a mandate for Economic Development and President of Network Globale, a company for the internationalization of Unioncamere Lazio. From 2011 to 2019, he was President of the Musica per Roma Foundation.
From 2017 to 2024, he served as President of the Defence Tech Group S.p.A., listed on the Euronext Growth Market in Milan, as well as of Next Sistemi di Ingegneria S.p.A., Foramil S.p.A., and Donexit Srl. Appointed Cavaliere del Lavoro by President Sergio Mattarella in 2019, currently he is Vice President of the Centro Studi Americani, Board Member of Aspen Institute Italia, Board Member of Engineering S.p.A., President of Sisal S.p.A. and SIAS S.p.A. Additionally, since May 2020, he has been Delegate for Energy and Energy Transition of Confindustria as well as President of Fondimpresa, the bilateral fund of Confindustria, CGIL, CISL, and UIL for funded training.