Marzio is professor of Environmental and Energy Economics at the University of Milan and a visiting researcher at KAPSARC. He graduated from Bocconi University in Milan and holds a M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. He is a research fellow at the Center for Research on Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy (IEFE) at Bocconi University. Founder and first president of the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, he has been an expert reviewer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third, Fourth, and Fifth assessment reports for Working Group III on and the coordinator of the Climate Change Modelling and Policy research program of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei in Milan. 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.

Carlo Andrea Bollino is a Professor of Economics at the University of Perugia and Professor of Energy Economics at the University LUISS, Rome. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was supervised by Nobel laureate Professor Lawrence Klein. He has been a Visiting Researcher at KAPSARC since 2015, focusing on econometric analysis, electricity market reform and climate change policy analysis. He is a Visiting Professor at Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany, the President (honorary) of the Italian Association for Energy Economics. He was the President of the IAEE in 2008, the President of GSE (Italian Renewable Energy Agency) and GRTN (Italian Electric Transmission network); Energy Advisor to the Minister of Industry and Ministry of Treasury of Italy; Chief Economist, ENI; Economist, Bank of Italy; and a Research Associate at Project Link for the United Nations. He has testified to the Italian Senate and Parliament briefings and has provided various governments with technical and policy reports on electricity market liberalization and renewable energy developments.

Baltasar is an associate professor of economics at the University of Vigo and has been a visiting researcher at KAPSARC since 2014. From 2005 to 2009, he served as an economic advisor to the president of Galicia. Baltasar has a Ph.D. in economics from the Universidad Complutense, Madrid and has published extensively in academic journals, mainly focusing on the intersection of macroeconomics and energy.

Prof. Matteo Manera is a Professor of Econometrics at the Department of Economics, Management and Statistics (DEMS), University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. He is the Deputy Director of the Doctoral School at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. He is the Coordinator of the PhD programme in Economics, Statistics and Data Science at DEMS. He has been heading the DEMS Recruiting Committee on the European Job Market since 2018. He is Charter Fellow of the Energy Industry research programme at RUDN University, Moscow, Russia. He is Director of the research programme “Econometrics of the Energy Transition” at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano, Italy. He is Principal Investigator of the project “ESG Practices in Emerging Economies and Climate Transition in Europe”, European Investment Bank. He is Editor of Economics, the open-access De Gruyter journal (ISSN: 1864-6042) and Editor of Energies, the open-access MDPI journal (ISSN: 1996-1073). He is member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Economics and Finance (ISSN: 10550925, 19389744), Springer, of “Equilibri” (ISSN: 1594-7580), Il Mulino, Bologna, Italy and of “Equilibri Magazine” (ISSN: 2974-6299), FEEM, Milano, Italy. He is Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. He is Principal Investigator of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF) at FEEM on the project “Dependencies and Volatility Spillovers Among Carbon, Energy, and Stock Markets in the EU”. He is the Chair of the scientific committee of the 4th Italian Workshop on Econometrics and Empirical Economics (IWEEE 2024), organized by the Italian Econometric Association (SIdE) at the Free University of Bolzano.

NELSON GAYTON holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and MFA in Digital Media from UCLA and a BSM from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. He has also served as a Visiting Scholar to the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST) and the Manchester Business School in the United Kingdom. He has served as a Faculty member at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he also was Founding Managing Director of the School’s think tank in digital media, creativity and innovation, and later was instrumental in establishing the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative. Prior to Wharton, Nelson served as a General Partner of the venture management firm, Crayon Venture Partners, and as a senior executive at Electronic Data Systems in London where he was responsible for business development, including the execution of over $25 million in strategic alliances and acquisitions. He began his career as a merchant banker with the Hong Kong Shanghai Corporation (HSBC). Nelson is a noted speaker and industry panelist, having also served on the faculty of UCLA Anderson School of Management and served as the Founding Executive Director of the School’s Center of Excellence in Media, Technology & Innovation. He is a published author of case studies at the Harvard Business School and a frequent contributor to knowledge publications, like Knowledge @ Wharton, Forbes and NPR just to name a few. Nelson is one of Fullbridge’s most highly rated and reviewed master coaches. He has coached programs for Fullbridge in many countries around the world with particular expertise delivering to a Saudi audience.

Carmen has a Master’s of Education from New York University (NYU) in conjunction with The Costume Institute and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has worked on exhibitions at The Costume Institute spearheaded by the legendary Diana Vreeland, former Editor-In-Chief at Vogue.