2011 Ð now:
Seconded National Expert, Electricity Department, ACER, Agency for
Coordination of Energy Regulators, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Responsible for
Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms (CRMs) and Renewable Energy Sources
(RES-E) market integration.
2004 Ð now (on leave): Professor of Economics (Professore
Associato) at the
University of Padua, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of
Economics;
teaching i) Principles of Economics; ii) Financial Economics.
2.Key
qualifications:
He has been the project leader of the 2-years
University of Padua interdisciplinary
research project on renewable energy sources entitled "Investing in
Renewables:
costs, values and efficiency", involving 9 researchers, awarded by
the
University of Padua with a 43.000 Û research grant
He is an
appointed member of the Seminar Committee, and of
the ÒSenior Visiting FellowshipÓ Committee, both at the Department of
Economics. In the past, he was the director of the ÒMarco FannoÓ
Working Papers
series of the Economics Department.
He was the
Chief Scientific and Operational
Officer of the Regione
Basilicata-GSE joint working group in charge
of the
Regione Basilicata Energy and Environmental Plan (approved by Giunta
Regionale in April 2009), managing a staff of 11 people.
He has done consultancy activity for public
bodies and private
enterprises, including AEEG (Italian Authority for Energy and Gas) and
Autoritˆ
per il Controllo e la Qualitˆ dei Servizi Pubblici Locali del Comune di
Roma
(Rome City Authority for the Control and Evaluation of Local Public
Services).
From March 2000 to June 2001 he was appointed as
the Economics and
Environmental Policy Technical Advisor of the Italian Ministry of
Industry and
Commerce.
He has been endowed with several research
grants. The most recent (last
3 years) are: Uncertainty and ambiguity in energy and environmental
markets (Univ. of
Padua res.
Grant n.60A15-2225/10);
Ambiguity and the value of investments in the economics of renewable
energy sources (
60A15-5751/09); Risk
heterogeneity and ambiguity in financial markets (60A15-5745/08).
Currently he participates to the PRIN research project 2007MCKEYA_002
entitled
Social learning, information cascades and asset markets under risk and
ambiguity, coordinated by prof. John hey. He is an evaluator for
international
and national research projects.
He has been teaching the course of Incentives
and Financing Systems for
Renewable Energies at the ENEA Master in Economics and Engineering of
Renewable
Sources, Trisaia (MT), Italy. He has also taught the following courses:
Principles of Economics;
Environmental Economics; International Regulation and the Environment,
at the
University of Florence. Moreover, he has been giving several lectures
at the
Ph.D School in Economics of the University of Rome ÒLa SapienzaÓ and at
the
University of Siena.
He has supervised Ph.D candidates at the Ph.D
program in Real Estate
Appraisal and Management Engineering, University of Padua (candidate:
Lorenzo
Paloscia), Public Finance, University of Pavia (external supervisor Ð
candidate: Lucia Vergano), and has been appointed as a member of the
Ph.D
Evaluation Committee of the University of York - University of Padua
Joint
Ph.D. Program (candidate: Luca Di Corato).
Has been invited to
presenta
lecture
on ÒAmbiguity, the Precautionary Principle and Climate
ChangeÓ at the Conference on Ambiguity, Uncertainty, and Climate
Change held at the University
of California, Berkeley, in September 2009.
He has presented papers in several conferences;
the most recent are the f
ourth World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists,
Montreal, (2010), the International
Energy
Workshop,
Venice,
(2009),
the 9¡ Italian Energy Summit, Milan, (2009), the 1¡ Workshop
NERI
(2009),
the European Energy Market
08 Conference, Lisbon (2008), the IAEE 08
Conference,
Istanbul (2008), the 3rd Atlantic Workshop on Energy and Environmental
Economics, Vigo, Spain (2008), the XVI conference AISSEC (2007), the XV
Annual
Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource
Economist
EAERE 07 (2007), the MEC XI International Utilities Forum (2007).
He is a referee for Ecological Economics, Public
Choice,
Metroeconomica, Annals of Operational
Research, International Economic Review, European Journal of Political
Economy,
Energy Policy.
His main research interests are i) Energy
Economics, in particular
energy markets regulation, energy policy evaluation and renewable
energy
markets analysis; ii) Decision Theory under Ambiguity, with main focus
on the
application of Choquet Expected Utility theory to environmental
economics,
financial markets and game theoretic settings.
3.Membership
of
professional
bodies:
Member of SIE, EAERE, STOREP, AIEE
4.Education and past academic and working
experiences:
He holds a Ph. D. in Economics conferred by the
University of Siena in
the year 2000, a Master of Science in Economics conferred by UCL in the
year
1996 and a Bachelor (Laurea) conferred by ÒLa SapienzaÓ University of
Rome in
the year 1995.He has been
visiting the Department of Economics of the UniversitŠt des Saarlandes
from
September 1998 to march 1999.
He has worked for the Trieste branch of Banca
Nazionale del Lavoro as an
Employee under the internal training program for managerial positions
from
01/03/1997 to 01/09/1997. From 01/09/1997 to 01/03/1998 he held a
research
contract at ISTAT (Italian National Statistical Institute) and from
2000 to
2001 at the Department of Economics of the University of Siena. In
November
2001 he was appointed full-time researcher at the University of
Florence,
Department of Economics. He moved to Padua in December 2004.
5.Language skills:
Italian (native speaker), English (fluent),
Spanish
(fluent), French (working
knowledge), Portuguese
(working knowledge).