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Italo Colantone is the Director of the GREEN Research Centre of Bocconi University. He is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at Bocconi University, in the Department of Social and Political Sciences. He is also Research Fellow of the Baffi Research Centre and of CESifo, and a Senior Researcher of FEEM. Italo holds a PhD in Economics from the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL). Before joining Bocconi, he was Assistant Professor at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. He was a visiting scholar at Carlos III and CEMFI in Madrid, LMU in Munich, and Harvard University. His research investigates the economic, social, and political implications of structural changes, with specific focus on globalization, technological change, and the green transition.

Piero Stanig is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University and a Research Fellow at the Dondena Centre. Piero received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. Before coming to Bocconi he taught at NYU, the LSE, and the Hertie School of Governance, and recently has spent a few years as visiting professor at NUS and Yale-NUS in Singapore. His current work focuses on two themes: the political consequences of structural economic changes; and the material drivers of environmental concern and environmentalist political behavior, in particular the effects of direct exposure to extreme weather events on vote choice and policy preferences.