Simone Borghesi

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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