Simone Borghesi is Director of the Florence School of Regulation – Climate at the European University Institute (EUI) and Vice Rector for International Relations at the University of Siena. He has been President of EAERE, the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2024-25) and of IAERE, the Italian Association (2018-19). He received a M.Sc. at University College London (1996) and a Ph.D. at the European University Institute (2001). He worked at the International Monetary Fund (1998) and FEEM Milan (1999). He was visiting scholar at INRA (2013), University of Cambridge (2015), ETH Zurich (2016). He currently directs the LIFE project NETS (Net-Zero Emissions Trading Systems). In the past he has directed three other LIFE projects (SIDE, DICET, COASE) and the EUI unit in several Horizon projects (e.g. Innopath, Capable, Spes).
He is currently Secretary General of the Policy Outreach Committee of EAERE, and member of the WCEREA – World Council of Environmental and Resource Economists Associations, of the CRM Academic Advisory Council of Brookings Institution (Washington D.C.), of the Economics Advisory Council of the Environmental Defense Fund (New York), and of CEPR – Research and Policy Network on Climate Change.
His main research areas are emissions trading, European climate policies, globalisation and sustainable development, economic growth and environmental degradation, evolutionary game models. 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.