Professor of Environmental and Energy Economics at the Università degli Studi di Milano. He graduated from Università Bocconi in Milan and holds a M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. He is Director of Scientific Research at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) in Milan, where previously was the coordinator of the Climate Change Modelling and Policy research program. He is Fellow of the Centre for Research on Geography, Resources, Environment, Energy & Networks (GREEN) at Università Bocconi of Milan and a Visiting Fellow at King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC). He is Review Editor for Chapter 4 (“Mitigation and development pathways in the near- to mid-term”) of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), IPCC WGIII, 2021. Founder and first President of the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (IAERE), he is a member of the editorial board of lavoce.info, of the scientific committee of Centro per un Futuro Sostenibile and of Fondazione Lombardia per l’Ambiente. He has published extensively in scholarly journals and actively participates to the policy debate through media interviews, comments and articles in newspapers and magazines and speeches and presentations in non-academic public events.