Simone Tagliapietra is Senior Associate Research Fellow at ISPI. He is Research Fellow at Bruegel and Senior Researcher at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. He is also Lecturer at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He is an expert in international energy and climate issues, with a record of numerous publications covering the international energy markets, the European energy and climate policy and the Euro-Mediterranean energy relations. He is the author of the books ‘Energy in Africa’ (Springer, 2018), 'Energy Relations in the Mediterranean: A Political Economy Perspective' (Palgrave, 2017), 'The Future of European Gas Markets' (Palgrave, 2017). In the past, he worked at the Istanbul Policy Center at Sabanci University and at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Born in 1988, he holds a PhD in Institutions and Policies from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore