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Valentina Bosetti
Resume Publications

Since 2012, I am a professor at Bocconi University teaching environmental and climate change economics. From 2020 to 2023, I chaired the Board of Directors of the Italian Transmission System Operator, Terna.

I collaborate as a senior scientist at the European Institute on Economics and the Environment, a transatlantic partnership between Resources for the Future and the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change.

From 2003 to 2018 I collaborated with Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei where I developed the WITCH model, together with fellow researchers.

In 2008-2009, I was visiting fellow at Princeton Environmental Institute, while during 2014-2015, I was also a fellow at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. I was one of the lead authors of both the 5th and 6th WGIII IPCC AR in 2014 and 2022.

Selected Publications
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Net zero-emission pathways reduce the physical and economic risks of climate change.
Drouet, L., Bosetti, V., Padoan, S.A. et al.
Nature Climate Change 11, 1070–1076 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01218-z
Are policymakers ambiguity averse?
Berger, L., Bosetti, V.
The Economic Journal (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uez051
COP21 Climate Negotiators’ Responses to Climate Model Forecasts.
Bosetti, V., Weber, E., Berger, L., Budescu, D. et al.
Nature Climate Change, 7, 185-189 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE3208

Selected Grants

2014-2019 RISICO
European Research Council Grants

RISk and uncertainty in developing and Implementing Climate change policies
RISICO Project website

2010-2013 ICARUS
European Research Council Grants

Innovation for Climate chAnge mitigation: a study of energy R&d, its Uncertain effectiveness and Spillovers
ICARUS Project website
You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. Dr. Seuss

Selected experiences

I teach environmental and climate change economics. I do research on several topics related to the energy transition. From to 2023, I chaired the Board of Directors at Terna, the Italian Transmission System Operator.
If you want to know more about my past experiences, you can find my resume here.

  • ongoing

    Full Professor Bocconi University I teach environmental and climate change economics at the Department of Economics of Bocconi University.

  • until 2023

    Chair of the Board of Directors Terna The Board of Directors is appointed by the Shareholders’ Meeting and is in charge of the company management.

  • Summer

    Visiting Scholar SCRIPPS UC San Diego The Scripps Institution of Oceanography is one of the oldest and largest centers for ocean and Earth science research in the world.

  • until 2015

    Fellow Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University The Center offers a residential fellowship program for scholars working in a diverse range of disciplines that contribute to advancing research and thinking in social science.

  • until 2017

    Associate Professor Bocconi University Also as an associated professor, I teached environmental and climate change economics at the Department of Economics of Bocconi University.

  • until 2011

    Visiting Researcher Princeton Environmental Institute, New Jersey, US The institute - now named High Meadows Environmental Institute - advances understanding of the Earth as a complex system influenced by human activities.

Teaching

Today, anyone interested in their own future must know what a carbon budget is and what actions we should take to maintain the change in climate within safe levels. Economic tools can help us frame these issues and provide strategies to solve some of the problems along the way.

This is why I teach environmental and climate change economics courses to undergraduate and graduate students at Bocconi University.

Environmental economics

2022-2023
6 credits - I semester
Link to course

The course provides students with a sound understanding of environmental and climate change economics. It examines the key role of economic activities as drivers of environmental degradation and climate change, and shows how economic tools can be used to investigate environmental problems and to design policies to address them.

Climate change economics

2022-2023
6 credits - I semester
Link to course

This course examines the key role of economic activities as a driver of climate change and how economic tools can be used to investigate this problem and to design climate policies. The students will have to rethink some key economic concepts like efficiency, externality, inter-temporal decision making under uncertainty and welfare aggregation, from a new and more applied perspective.

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