Giacomo Falchetta

Biography

Giacomo Falchetta is a research scholar in the Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, where he works on the Long-term Europe Africa Partnership on Renewable Energy (LEAP-RE), a joint initiative of the European Union and African Union. He joined IIASA in October 2021, after being affiliated with the institute as a guest research scholar between 2018 and 2019.

Falchetta is also affiliated with the Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) and before joining IIASA, he worked as a research fellow in the Future Energy Program (FEP) at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), a sustainability science research center based in Milan, Italy. An environmental economist by training, he carries out applied research on the nexus between energy, water, climate change, and economic development with a particular focus on the use of geographic information system (GIS) data and methodologies.

He holds a PhD from the Department of International Economics of the Catholic University of Milan, an MSc in Environmental and Climate Change Economics from the London School of Economics, and a BSc in Economics and Social Sciences from the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen. He has authored several publications in international journals.


Last update: 26 JUN 2023