Simone Gasperin
Senior Policy Advisor Industria, ECCO Climate
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.