Biography
Simone Borghesi is Director of the Florence School of Regulation – Climate, part-time professor at the EUI, President of EAERE (European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists), and Vice-Rector for International Relations at the University of Siena.
He is a member of the WCEREA – World Council of Environmental and Resource Economists Associations, the CRM Academic Advisory Council of Brookings Institution (Washington D.C.), the Economics Advisory Council of the Environmental Defense Fund (New York), and CEPR – Research and Policy Network on Climate Change. He has been President of the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2018-19) and Secretary General of the EAERE Policy Outreach Committee (2018-2023).
He received an M.Sc. in Economics from University College London and a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute. He worked at the International Monetary Fund, at the Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei, and as Assistant Professor at the University of Pescara. He has been a visiting scholar at INRA – Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique, at the Department of Land Economy of the University of Cambridge, and the Centre of Economic Research of ETH.
In 2012 he was invited to the United Nations at the High-Level Meeting on “Happiness and Wellbeing: Defining A New Economic Paradigm”. He participated as an invited speaker to the United Nations COP26 (Glasgow, 2021), COP27 (Sharm-el-Sheik, 2022), COP28 (Dubai, 2023), COP29 (Baku, 2024).
He has been invited/keynote speaker at plenary sessions of international conferences and institutions including World Ecosummit (Columbus, 2012), Columbia University (2012), Tsinghua University (Beijing, 2013), SOAS (London, 2013), EUI Annual Climate Conference (2016, Plenary Session), University of Cambridge (2017), University of East Anglia (2018), Harvard Environmental Economics Program (2018, 2021), SEEDS Annual Workshop (keynotes 2018 and 2024), High-Level Policy Dialogue on Climate Change Governance (Paris, 2019), SIE (Italian Economists Society, 2019, Plenary Roundtable Session), IETA (International Emissions Trading Association, 2020 and 2022), AERNA (Spanish-Portuguese Association of Natural and Environmental Resources Economics, 2021), OECD-Network Economic Regulators (2021), Brookings Institution (2021), 17 Rooms Summit (Brookings Center for Sustainable Development and The Rockefeller Foundation, 2023), European Investment Bank (2023), Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris, 2023), Bocconi University (2024), European Climate Summit (2024), Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum (2024), UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (2024), Atlantic Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics (2024), JusTN0W Conference, Durham University (2024).
He currently directs the LIFE project COASE (Collaborative Observatory for the Assessment of the EU ETS, 2023-25) and the EUI unit in the Horizon projects CAPABLE and SPES. He has directed the LIFE projects SIDE (Supporting the Implementation and Development of the EU ETS, 2017-18) and DICET (Deepening International Cooperation on Emission Trading, 2019-22). He is among the leading authors of the report “Pathways to deep decarbonization in Italy” (SDSN United Nations and IDDRI, Paris, 2015).
He has published three books and over 100 articles in edited volumes and peer-reviewed international journals, including Ecological Economics, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Environment and Development Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Research Policy, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Science. His work deals mainly with globalisation and sustainability of development, economic growth, and environmental degradation, emissions trading, and climate change.