Bio
Simone Tagliapietra is Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe
Senior Fellow, Bruegel, Brussels, Belgium
Professor Tagliapietra's research activity focuses on climate and energy issues. He works on the EU climate and energy policy, on the political economy of EU decarburization, on green industrial policy, on just transition and on global climate governance. With a record of numerous scientific publications, he is also the author of
Global Energy Fundamentals (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and
L'energia del mondo (Il Mulino, 2020). His columns and policy work are frequently published and cited in leading international media such as the
Financial Times, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Die Zeit, El Pais, Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore, and others. He holds a PhD in Institutions and Policies from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where he was Assistant Professor from 2020-2023.
Courses
- EU Energy and Climate Policy
This course provides a grand tour of EU energy and climate policy. It aims at offering students a comprehensive overview of the various policy dimensions characterizing this fascinating space: energy policy and climate policy themselves, but also industrial policy, fiscal policy, social policy, and foreign policy. The course pays particular attention to the political economy and governance aspects of the EU energy and climate policy, highlighting its fundamental drivers of change and discussing in a critical manner its challenges and potential prospects. While the course provides an EU-level overview on this set of issues, it also offers specific insights on individual EU countries’ energy and climate policy developments. Each class will be introduced by a short “Energy and climate news corner”, where students will shortly present in class the most important global development in this space, so to get used of being up to speed with ongoing energy and climate policy developments, at the EU level but also globally.
