Carlo Amenta is the Director of the Observatory on the Digital Economy at the Bruno Leoni Institute. He is an Associate Professor of Business Economics and Management at the University of Palermo, where he teaches Global Management and Economics and Management of Utilities. His most recent research interests focus on utility management, the application of business analysis to criminal and corruption phenomena, and sports management. He works as a Chartered Accountant and Statutory Auditor in Palermo and has held managerial and control roles in seizure procedures involving companies in the energy sector. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.
Rossella Bardazzi is an Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Florence. She has dedicated part of her research to the theoretical and empirical analysis of various European-level themes. She belongs to the international research network of macro-econometric models, INFORUM (Interindustry Forecasting at the University of Maryland), and is a member of the council of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA). Her research interests concern the development of multi-sectoral and micro-simulation models, systems of demand for household consumption, and the energy demand of firms and households. She holds a Jean Monnet Chair (2019-2022) for the project HOPPER: “HOuseholds’ energy Poverty in the EU: PERspectives for research and policies”.
Roberto Barella. After completing my master’s degree in Renewable Energy, I decided to apply my engineering knowledge and my experience as a volunteer to the fight against energy poverty. I currently work as a Research Assistant at the Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas. My doctoral thesis integrates into the interdisciplinary vision of the Cátedra de Energía y Pobreza (Chair of Energy and Poverty). The main objective of my research is to study and propose energy policies to combat energy poverty. Personal page; Linkedin.
Giorgio Bonini, holds a degree in Pedagogy and currently serves as a director at a volunteer organization in Modena. For over thirty years, he has worked in the social sector, combating severe marginalization among adolescents and adults and fighting family poverty. Active in the Third Sector, he is a former member of the Emilia-Romagna Regional Observatory and is an expert in social project design and social reporting. Linkedin.
Marco Borgarello heads the ‘Energy Efficiency Research Group’ at R.S.E. SpA (Ricerca del Sistema Energetico) in Milan. After obtaining a degree in Chemistry in Turin, he worked in Canada (Concordia University, Montreal), and later served as a researcher and university assistant at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Subsequently, he worked at CISE, ENEL RICERCA, CESI, and ERSE. Currently, at RSE SpA, he conducts research in the field of energy policies and measures for efficiency in the use and supply of energy in the civil, industrial, and mobility sectors. He also provides scientific support to central institutions (Ministries, ARERA, Confindustria, GSE and its subsidiaries, Regions, Provinces) and other local entities for energy governance and planning. He is also the author of numerous international reports and articles.
Riccardo Camboni. Post-Doc researcher at the University of Padua, Department of Economics and Management. His research interests are connected to performance measurement and the impact of policies and regulation in the field of public procurement and public-private partnerships. Riccardo is also interested in energy economics, particularly as applied to the residential building sector and studies on affordability, energy poverty, and the circular economy. Personal page
Paola Caputo, is an Associate Professor of Environmental Technical Physics at the Politecnico di Milano. She deals with the analysis of energy systems at different scales (from the building to the territory) and promotes measures to increase efficiency and integrate renewable energy sources. She has worked on analyzing energy access in informal settlements in developing countries and is engaged in research to analyze and map the phenomenon of energy poverty at the local level and to mitigate it through energy retrofit strategies. Personal page.
Marta Castellini is a Type-A Researcher at the University of Padua, Department of Economics and Management “Marco Fanno”. She specializes in environmental and energy economics. In the field of microeconomics, her research focuses on developing economic valuation models for investments under uncertainty for prosumers and energy communities. She participates in Spoke 6 – “Low carbon policies” – within the project “GRINS – Growing Resilient, INclusive and Sustainable” as part of the NATIONAL RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE PLAN (PNRR) – MISSION 4 “Education and Research” COMPONENT 2, “From Research to Business” INVESTMENT 1.3, funded by the European Union. She also collaborates with the Eni Enrico Mattei Foundation within the research program “Modelling the Energy Transition” for the development of integrated macroeconomic models of climate and the economy.
Marine Cornelis is the founder of Next Energy Consumer, a policy consultancy focused on the social aspects of energy and climate transitions at the European and international levels. In particular, Marine is a policy advisor for the ESRC Just Energy research project on access to justice for vulnerable and energy-poor consumers in Europe, and for other research and operational projects on energy poverty.
Marco Corradi is the President of Acer Azienda Casa Emilia Romagna in Reggio Emilia, the managing body for buildings owned by the municipalities of the Reggio Emilia province, and is a member of the board of Cispel, the regional association of local public services in the Emilia Romagna Region. Corradi is also on the Executive Board of Federcasa, which he represents within Housing Europe (European Federation of Public, Cooperative & Social Housing) as a member of the Board of Directors. On its behalf, he promotes the themes of building energy efficiency, participates in European institutional and association working groups, promotes research activities, facilitates the dissemination of best practices, and supports lobbying activities in individual countries through projects and national platforms aimed at fostering the development of the green economy in the residential and social housing sector.
Alberto Corsini is a Ph.D. fellow in Economics at the GREDEG institute of the Université Côte d’Azur in Nice, France. After conducting research in the field of welfare policies and socio-labor integration at the University of Brescia, he dedicated himself to a research project on mapping the risk of energy poverty at the municipal level. He is also currently interested in the economics of innovation, the economics of science, and public policy evaluation.
Chiara D’Alpaos is an Associate Professor of Appraisal and Economic Evaluation of Projects at the University of Padua. She is a member of the Italian Society of Appraisal and Valuation, the EURO Working Group on MCDA, the International Society on MCDM, and a member of the Working Group on Inclusion and Social Justice of the University Network for Sustainable Development (RUS). Since 2011, she has participated in and coordinated numerous research projects on the evaluation of investments in renewable energy sources and building energy retrofits, with particular reference to public housing and issues related to energy poverty. Personal page
Elisabetta Dall’Ò, Ph.D, is a cultural anthropologist and post-doctoral researcher on the topic of ecological and energy transition at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin. She is also an adjunct professor of medical anthropology and head of LabACC, the Laboratory of Anthropology of Climate Change, at the same university. A member of NatRisk, the Interdepartmental Center on Natural Risks in Mountain and Hilly Environments at the University of Turin, she has long focused on the socio-cultural impacts of climate change.
Nives Della Valle works as a Scientific Officer at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), where she applies her expertise in behavioural economics to energy policy issues, such as energy efficiency and energy poverty. Before joining the JRC, she was a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Renewable Energy – Eurac Research (Bolzano, Italy), and a Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (Bonn, Germany). She has also worked in a team commissioned by the Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment (ARERA) to provide lab evidence on the effectiveness of different types of feedback on energy behaviours. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Management from the University of Trento (2017), specialising in Behavioural and Experimental Economics with a thesis on the interaction between social context and decision-making, and having conducted research periods at the University of Copenhagen and Durham Business School.
Gabriella De Maio is a Professor of Energy Law at the Department of Law of the University of Naples “Federico II”. She has been a speaker at international and national conferences, primarily on the topics of climate change, energy efficiency, urban regeneration, and energy poverty. She is a member of various research groups, including one on “Environmental Law, Natural Resources and Vulnerability” at the University of Seville and another on “Fuel and energy poverty” as part of the activities of the World Energy Council’s Trilemma Experts. Linkedin.
Marilena De Simone is a Researcher in Environmental Technical Physics at the Department of Environmental Engineering of the University of Calabria (Unical). For several years, she has been dealing with energy issues related to the interaction between humans, buildings, and the environment. She is currently a member of the international network SECRET (Social Science, Engineering, Computing Research in Energy Topics) and the coordinator for Unical of activities for the IEA EBC ANNEX 79: Occupant-Centric Building Design and Operation. Research Gate page.
Angelo Facchini is an Assistant Professor at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. He holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Enzo Tiezzi. He was a Guest Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden. He worked as a Senior Researcher at the Enel Foundation, focusing on research projects related to sustainable development, energy, and urban development. He conducts research on Big Data, sustainability policies in the energy sector, urban metabolism of megacities, and the relationship between energy, infrastructure, and the impact of climate change on cities.
Kristian Fabbri. Architect, consultant in building energy certification and efficiency, indoor and outdoor comfort, microclimate, and heritage buildings. Consultant for ART-ER, the Emilia-Romagna Region, and industry associations. Lecturer at the Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna, with whom he also collaborates in research (Qualified ASN SSD 09/C2, 08/C1 and 08/E2). He has publications in international journals and conferences, including K. Fabbri, Urban Fuel Poverty, Elsevier, 2019. Personal page. Linkedin. X (Ex Twitter) Account: @kristianfabbri
Ivan Faiella is a Senior Economist at the Bank of Italy. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Observatory on Energy Poverty (until April 2024), the G20 Energy Sustainability Working Group, the Network for Greening the Financial System, the Committee for the Estimation of Natural Capital, and the scientific committee of the journal “Energia”. His publications are available on Research Gate. Linkedin.
Alessandro Federici heads the Laboratory for Monitoring Energy Efficiency Policies at the Department of Energy Efficiency Unit of ENEA. Since 2016, he has been the coordinator of the ENEA working group that supports the Ministry of Economic Development in drafting national energy efficiency action plans, annual reports to the European Commission, and in the process of transposing energy efficiency directives. He is the coordinator of the ENEA Annual Energy Efficiency Report and the Annual Ecobonus Report. He is the Italian delegate to the Energy Efficiency Working Party of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Executive Committee of the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC), and the Implementation Working Group for Energy Efficiency in Industry (IWG6) of the Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan). He is involved in the ENPOR (Actions to Mitigate Energy Poverty in the Private Rented Sector – H2020 Programme) and GreenAbility (Green abilities to tackle social issues – Erasmus+ programme) projects.
Pietro Florio. Fascinated by the interactions between social and technical disciplines and passionate about building physics, Pietro Florio graduated in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Turin with a thesis on energy efficiency in schools. Thanks to a call for young Piedmontese graduates, he worked with the CSTB (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment) on the scientific direction of the French National Observatory on Energy Poverty at the Energy Authority in Paris: he wrote a report on European policies to combat energy poverty and collaborated on the national survey to characterize at-risk households. Since 2014, he has been a doctoral student at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland), researching the perception and acceptance of solar panels at an urban scale, and actively participates in the international working group of IEA SHC Task 51 “Solar Energy and Urban Planning”. He collaborates with the Energy Department of the Polytechnic University of Turin on action-research against energy poverty. Linkedin. X (Ex Twitter) Account: @pietro_florio.
Flavia Gatti is an environmental biologist, who has always been interested in volunteering, inclusion dynamics, and the social aspects of the energy and climate transition. She has gained experience in the sector by collaborating with the National Directorate of Legambiente Onlus in Rome, dealing with research, analysis, and dissemination of best practices in the field of clean and accessible energy for all, self-consumption, energy efficiency, and the sharing economy. She is involved in a research project at the IGB (Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries) in Berlin, focused on the link between energy production and water resources, including their availability at the local and global level, in order to identify synergies and potential conflicts between the Sustainable Development Goals SDG6 and SDG7 (“Clean Water and Sanitation” – “Affordable and Clean Energy”).
Fabio Gerosa, born in 1962, is a social entrepreneur who has always been involved in issues of marginalization and inclusive policies for minors and vulnerable people. Graduating from the Catholic University in Milan in 1989, he then entered the productive sector by creating and managing social enterprises. Among these, in recent years, he has established “Fratello Sole società consortile” and “Fratello Sole Energie Solidali ESCO,” the first social enterprise focused on the ecological transition of Italian Third Sector entities and energy poverty. He is currently the president of both companies. Linkedin.
Luciano Lavecchia. Economist at the Bank of Italy. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Observatory on Energy Poverty and a fellow of the Bruno Leoni Institute. Already a member of the Commission for the drafting of the annual report on tax expenditures at the Ministry of Economy and Finance. His publications are available on Ideas. Linkedin. X (Ex Twitter) Account: @lucianolavecchi.
Marco Magnani. I currently hold a position as a research fellow at the University of Padua in a project funded by the Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment (ARERA), and I am an adjunct professor of Applied Econometrics in the Master’s degree program in Economics and Law at the University of Bologna. The topics of my research activity are consumer behavior, the liberalization of retail energy markets, and energy consumer rights. Linkedin
Barbara Antonioli Mantegazzini is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), where she is also the Deputy Director of the Institute of Economic Research (IRE). Her research interests primarily concern public economics, with a particular focus on the economics, management, and regulation of public utilities (traditional and renewable energy, environment, water, and waste) and higher education. Barbara also serves as a consultant for institutions and utilities on energy, environmental, and territorial planning issues. She is the author of numerous international reports and articles and a partner in research projects in the field of energy and the environment. http://usi.to/ekx
Raffaele Miniaci is a Professor of Political Economy at the University of Brescia. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bologna and was previously an Associate Professor of Econometrics at the University of Padua and a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway University of London. His research approach is that of an empirical microeconomist, with interests in household consumption and financial choices and issues of poverty. Personal page.
Enrico Nano is an Economist at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and a Ph.D. candidate in development economics at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID). Trained in impact evaluation, his research focuses on the impact of public policies on education, the labor market, and human capital accumulation. Prior to joining FAO, he worked as a research economist at the World Trade Organization, a research assistant at the think tank Bruegel and the Center for Finance and Development at IHEID, as well as at the European Commission and UniCredit Bank Russia. Since 2016, Enrico has also been a member of the Global Shapers Community, where he currently serves as the curator of the Rome hub. Personal page.
Maria Grazia Pazienza is an Associate Professor of Public Finance at the University of Florence. Her research interests have focused on the effects of taxation, with particular regard to environmental and corporate taxation, and on behavioral aspects of consumption choices, particularly in the field of energy. She was a member of the Commission for the drafting of the Report on Tax Expenditures.
Silvia Pedrotti is the Head of the Banco dell’energia Foundation, a non-profit organization established by a2a and its Foundations to promote projects related to combating energy poverty. With a degree in Sociology and a Master’s in Third Sector Management, and after previous experiences in Institutional Relations, she is the Social Affairs Manager at a2a. For Banco dell’energia, she coordinates the operational team, with the responsibility of implementing the Foundation’s directives, coordinating projects, and evaluating their impacts on the community.
Anna Realini. After earning a Master’s degree in Energy Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan, I worked for 4 years at a company in the energy sector. Since 2016, I have been a researcher at Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE S.p.A.), where I focus on Energy Efficiency, with a particular emphasis on final energy uses in the industrial, civil, and transport sectors. I work on Italian projects (mainly within the National Electrical System Research program) and on some projects funded by the European Commission, primarily through H2020 calls.Linkein.
Maria Stella Righettini is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Legal Sciences and International Studies (SPGI) of the University of Padua.
Serena Rugiero coordinates the Energy, Development and Innovation research area at the Giuseppe Di Vittorio Foundation (formerly IRES – Institute for Economic and Social Research), dealing with issues related to sustainability and the socio-economic effects of energy policies and innovation dynamics, with particular attention to labor and organizational, managerial, and territorial structures. On these topics, she has published numerous articles and essays and coordinated national and European projects. She teaches General and Applied Environmental Sociology at the University of Molise.
Angela Santangelo is a researcher in urban planning techniques at the Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna, where she works on research projects funded at the European level and agreements with local authorities. Her research interests in the field of energy poverty focus on integration with planning tools and the public housing sector. Personal page
Carlo Stagnaro is the director of the Observatory on the Digital Economy at the Bruno Leoni Institute. Previously, he was head of the technical secretariat of the Minister of Economic Development. He holds a degree in Environmental and Territorial Engineering from the University of Genoa and a Ph.D. in Economics, Markets, and Institutions from IMT School for Advanced Studies – Lucca. His latest monograph “Power Cut? How the EU Is Pulling the Plug on Electricity Markets” (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2015). X (Ex Twitter) Account: @CarloStagnaro.
Sarah Supino. A lawyer specializing in tax law at Salvini e Soci – a tax law firm founded by F. Gallo. She holds a Ph.D. in Law and Business (with a focus on business, finance, and taxation) from LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. She is the author of scientific publications, including on energy poverty, such as the volume “La povertà energetica. Strumenti per affrontare un problema sociale” (Energy Poverty: Tools to Address a Social Problem), published by Il Mulino in 2019. Personal page. Linkedin.
Paola Ungaro, PhD in Methodology and Technique of Social Research, is a First Researcher at the National Institute of Statistics (Istat), where she has worked since 1996. Currently responsible for the initiative “Development and Analysis of Indicators for Sustainable Development (SDGs)”, she has extensive organizational and managerial experience (leading organizational structures and projects), as well as experience in designing, managing, and implementing statistical surveys in the social and environmental fields (she was responsible, among others, for the launch of the Survey on Household Energy Consumption). She also specializes in analysis and research in the social, economic, and environmental sectors, with particular reference to their integrability dimensions (sustainable development indicators, residential energy consumption, energy and environmental indicators, pro-environmental behaviors of the population, environmental sustainability of businesses, etc.).
Paola Valbonesi. Full Professor of Political Economy at the University of Padua. My research interests lie at the intersection of industrial economics and public economics, with a particular focus on designing efficient incentives and rules in public-private interaction contexts (utilities, energy, public procurement, state aid, innovation). Since 2006, I have initiated and contributed to research projects on the redistributive effects of utility prices, also with a focus on energy poverty. Personal page.
Marina Varvesi is the co-founder of AISFOR and head of the innovation and research area at AISFOR. For over 10 years, she has studied household energy consumption behavior and habits, and in recent years has focused on the issue of energy poverty, first as a partner in the European project SMART-UP (grant number 649669) and then by coordinating the ASSIST project (grant number 754051), where a model to combat energy poverty was developed and validated. She participates in various national and European working groups aimed at studying and addressing the phenomenon of energy poverty.
Benedetta Voltaggio. A lawyer specializing in tax law at Salvini e Soci – a tax law firm founded by F. Gallo. Author of scientific publications on energy poverty, including the volume “Energy Poverty: Tools to Address a Social Problem,” published by Il Mulino in 2019. Personal page. Linkedin.
Davide Zampatti is a research fellow at the Giorgio Levi Cases Energy Economics and Technology Center of the University of Padua. He first graduated in Economics and later in International Economics from the University of Brescia. Davide Zampatti subsequently earned a Ph.D. in Economic Sociology and Labour Studies from the University of Milan, conducting empirical analyses on socio-economic inequalities. Research Gate.Linkedin