Andre Tilche
University of Bologna; former Head of Unit, DG Research, European Commission
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.