Leonardo Meeus is an academic who engages with EU policy and regulation, with a focus on the energy sector, and the space sector.
Leonardo is a professor at the European University Institute where he is the Director of the Florence School of Regulation and the Loyola de Palacio Chair in the Robert Schuman Centre. He is also a professor at KU Leuven, and an external faculty affiliate at the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR).
Leonardo’s research evaluates policies and regulations by analysing their impact on the operational and investment decisions of market players. He uses optimization models to study the costs and benefits of policies and regulations, and to understand their complex interactions. He published the open access book “The Evolution of Electricity Markets in Europe”.
Leonardo holds a master’s degree in business engineering (2002), and a PhD in engineering (2006) from KU Leuven.