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Degree in Political Science (University of Padua). MA in Business administration (University ofPadua). MSc in Economics (University of York). He joined the Bank of Italy in 1979. From 1994 to 1997 he served as Economic Adviser at the European Commission. From 1997 to 2013 he was at the Bank of Italy, finally from 2011 as Managing Director of Economics, Research and International Relations. From 1999 to 2007 he was chairman of the Working Group on Public Finance of the European Central Bank. From May 2013 to May 2019 he was State General Accountant at the Ministry of Economics and Finance. In May 2019 he joined the Governing Board of the Bank ofItaly; from January 2020 to February 2021 he was Senior Deputy Governor and President of the Insurance Supervisory Authority (IVASS). From February 2021 to October 2022 he was Minister of the Economy and Finance. He gave courses at the Universities of Bergamo and Trieste, at the Università Cattolica in Milano and at the Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione in Rome. He has written several books and papers on public finance, fiscalpolicy and macroeconomic issues

Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, and Research Fellow of CEPR, CESifo and the Tinbergen Institute. His research is on the economics of climate change, energy and the economics of resource-rich economics, focusing mainly on macroeconomic growth and open economy issues, financial questions, and problems in public economic and political economy. In the past he has been at the University of Cambridge, LSE, Tilburg, VU and the European University, Florence. He has also been a Chief Financial Spokesperson in the Dutch Parliament, State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands, and Vice Chair of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. He has extensive consultancy experience with supranational organisations, governments, and private businesses.

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Simone Borghesi is Director of the Florence School of Regulation – Climate at the European University Institute (EUI), President Elect of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and Secretary General of its Policy Outreach Committee, and Full Professor of Economics and Deputy Rector for International Relations at the University of Siena. He has been President of the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2018-19). He received a M.Sc. at University College London (1996) and a Ph.D. at the European University Institute (2001). He worked at the International Monetary Fund (1998) and FEEM Milan (1999). He was visiting scholar at INRA (2013), University of Cambridge (2015), ETH Zurich (2016). He has directed several LIFE projects on Emissions Trading (SIDE, DICET, COASE) and the EUI unit in past and forthcoming Horizon projects (e.g. Innopath, Capable, Spes). He is member of the WCEREA – World Council of Environmental and Resource Economists Associations, CRM Academic Advisory Council, Brookings Institution (Washington D.C.) and of CEPR – Research and Policy Network on Climate Change. His main research areas are emissions trading, European climate policies, globalisation and sustainable development, economic growth and environmental degradation, evolutionary game models.

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Stefano is the Head of Secretariat at ICAP, the International Carbon Action Partnership. ICAP is a forum, counting 34 members and 7 observers, for governments and public authorities that have implemented or are planning to implement emissions trading systems. Stefano leads the work of ICAP, facilitating technical dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity building among governments on all aspects related to the design and implementation of emissions trading systems. Before his current role, Stefano was the Director for International Policy at the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). Prior to joining IETA he focused on emissions trading in the Academia and for consulting companies. He holds a M.Sc. in Sustainable Development from the Utrecht University and a B.Sc. in Environmental Science from the University of Trieste.

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Lorenzo Forni is currently Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Economic and Business “Marco Fanno” of the University of Padua and Head of Prometeia Associazione, an Italian think tank providing economic analysis and forecasting. He worked from 2010 to 2016 at the International Monetary Fund in Washington and previously at the Research Department of the Bank of Italy in Rome. He has published in international journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Public Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, as well as book chapters and numerous working papers. He’s the author of the book “The Magic Money Tree and other economic tales”, selected by the Financial Times among the 2021 best economics books, and more recently of “Net Zero”, a book on policies to reduce greenhouse gasses emissions. He received his Master’s and PhD in Economics from Boston University in 2001 and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 2005-2006.

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Simone Gasperin is ECCO’s Senior Policy Associate for the Industry Programme. Simone is an economist with specialisation on industrial policy and state-owned enterprises. 

He holds a MSc in Economics from University of Pisa / Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and a PhD in Innovation and Public Policy from University College London. At ECCO he works on elaborating industrial policy packages for decarbonising hard-to-abate manufacturing sectors. 

Before joining ECCO, Simone was an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research of London and a Research Fellow at the Einaudi Foundation of Turin. Previously, he worked for three years with Mariana Mazzucato at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, collaborating on research and policy activities with several national governments and international organisations.

From 2020 to 2021 he worked as Economic Expert at the Prime Minister’s Office of Italy. Together with Guendalina Anzolin, he is the author of “30+1 cifre che raccontano l’Italia”, published by Castelvecchi Editore in May 2023.

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Selma Mahfouz, former Director of Research, Studies and Statistics at the Ministry of Labour, France, is a member of the Inspection générale des finances (IGF) at the French Ministry of Finance.
She started her career at the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) before joining the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Between 2002 and 2006, she was Director of the Department of Social and Labour Market Policies at the French Treasury. She was then Deputy Director of the French Pensions Advisory Council, Advisor to the Minister of Social Affairs and Health, and Deputy Director of France Stratégie. In 2023, she wrote with Jean Pisani-Ferry a report to the French Prime Minister: “The economic implications of climate action”.

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Kalypso Nicolaidis is professorial Chair of Global Affairs at the EUI School of Transnational Governance in Florence, where she chairs the Programmes on Transnational Democracy and Global Peace Tech, and convenes the EUI  inter-disciplinary cluster on Transnational democracy in the 21^st century including the EUI Democracy Forum. She is Emeritus professor at Oxford University and was professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and at ENA. She has worked with numerous EU institutions, including as a member of the European Council’s high level group on the future of Europe chaired by Felipe González (2008-10) and is a Council member of ECFR. Her research revolves around the connections between global and European governance regarding issues of legitimacy,  mutual recognition, legal empathy, social solidarity, democracy with foresight, sustainable integration, post-colonialism, myth and politics and the import of new technologies on for peace and democracy. She is the founder of the demoi-cratic theory school and explores the use of immersive debating and teaching, through arts and the ”theater of recognition.” Her last books are: A Citizen’s Guide to the Rule of Law - Why We Need to Fight for the Most Precious Human Inventions of All Time (with Adis Merdzanovic,  2021) and Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit (2019).

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Dr Jan Nill is policy co-ordinator EU Emissions Trading System at the European Commission, Directorate-General Climate Action, Unit B1 EU Emissions Trading System (I): Policy coordination, international carbon markets. His current responsibilities include leading the team on the new ETS2 for buildings, road transport and non-ETS industry fuel combustion. He graduated at the Free University of Berlin and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Kassel with a thesis on environmental innovation policy. He works in the European Commission since 2004. Previously he worked, e.g., on climate strategy and economic assessment, Effort Sharing between Member States, climate and energy governance as well as research policies.

Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano is Professor of Economics and Achille and Giulia Boroli Chair in European Studies at Bocconi University, where he is co-Director of the Research Unit on Globalization and Industry Dynamics of Baffi-CAREFIN, fellow of Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research and sits in the Steering Committee of the Bocconi Lab for European Studies. He is also affiliated with the Centre for Economic Policy Research, the Centre for Economic Performance (LSE), the Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy.

He received his BA in Economics at Bocconi University Milan, his MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his PhD in Economics at the Université Catholique de Louvain. During his career he has been Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna and at the London School of Economics.

He is the co-author of many works in international trade, urban economics and economic geography. His recent publications focus on the competitiveness of firms in the global economy as well as the economic effects of immigration and offshoring on employment and wages. 

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Karen Pittel is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich and Director of the ifo Center for Energy, Climate and Resources at the ifo Institute in Munich, Germany. Karen is Co-Chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change and was Deputy Chair of the Steering Committee of the Science Platform on Climate Protection which advised the German Government on long-term climate policy (until March 2023). She is also a member of the Executive Board of the National Academy of Science and Technology. Karen research interests lie in the areas of energy, climate and resource economics with a focus on the transformation of energy systems and the long-term effectiveness and efficiency of climate and energy policies.

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Giorgio Presidente is Research Fellow at the Institute for European Policy-Making at Bocconi University and Research Associate at the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Work, University of Oxford. He is interested in topics related to technology, firms and productivity, remote work, and market power. Previously, he held positions at the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the European Central Bank and the United Nations. He holds a Ph.D. from Paris School of Economics.

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Mar Reguant (Ph.D. MIT) is a Professor in Economics at Northwestern University and an ICREA Research Professor at IAE. Her research uses high-frequency data to study the impact of auction design and environmental regulation on electricity markets and energy-intensive industries. She was awarded an NSF CAREER grant in 2015, and the Sabadell Prize for Economic Research in 2017. Her research is currently funded by the European Research Council.

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Ottavio Ricchi holds the position of Director of Economic and Financial Research and Analysis at the Treasury Department in the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance.  He was formerly in charge, in turn, for potential output and structural public finance estimates, debt sustainability projections and productivity analysis, the macroeconomic forecasts unit and of the liaison unit with the EU-Economic Policy Committee. He is the chair of the EU-Output Gap Working Group and vice chair of the Global Forum on Productivity at the OECD. He graduated from the University of Naples and holds an MSc in economics at the University of York (UK) and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Exeter (UK). His main areas of interest include productivity analysis, economic modelling, public finance, and international economics.

Massimo Tavoni is full professor of climate change economics at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano, and director of the European Institute on the Economy and the Environment (EIEE), His research is about the economics and modeling of the low carbon transition and of environmental impacts. He is an author of the IPCC, and has coordinated several international research projects, including two ERC grants. 

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Alessio Terzi is an Economist at the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission, and an Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po and HEC Paris. He is the author of Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe (2022, Harvard University Press). Prior to this, he was an Affiliate Fellow at the think-tank Bruegel and a Fulbright Scholar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He also has work experience from the European Central Bank and in sovereign risk analysis from BMI Research (Fitch Ratings). He holds a PhD in Political Economy from the Hertie School in Berlin.

Alessio’s area of expertise centres on sustainable growth, and he was involved in the development of the European Green Deal. He has published widely on these topics, including on Energy Policy, Economic Modelling, and the European Economic Review. His policy work and commentaries have been featured in leading media outlets including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, BBC World News, Bloomberg, and The Washington Post.

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Water scientist, after 20 years of scientific career in Italy, from 1998 to 2018 has worked at the European Commission where he has been responsible of the European research programmes on climate change, also representing the European Union at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and participating in the preparation of EU climate policies. During the Draghi government, he was member of the technical secretariat of the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition and consultant of the Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility, for whom he co-authored three reports on the impact of climate change on infrastructure, on technologies for sustainable mobility, and on zero-emission cities. He is currently Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim and teaches Clean Technologies for the Energy Transition at the University of Bologna.

Author of numerous scientific publications, he recently published (in Italian, English version in progress) “Seven lectures on the climatic transition”, an essay derived from his teaching activity in Norway.

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