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Stefano Riela is an Academic Fellow at Università Bocconi and a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). His research interests include the political economy of the European Union, international trade, industrial policy, and competition policy. Previously, he lectured on the Economics of the European Union at the University of Auckland and the University of Canterbury. Beyond his academic roles, Stefano served as President of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in New Zealand and worked as an Economic Advisor on communications regulation at the Italian Communications Regulatory Authority (AGCOM). He also acted as a consultant for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during Italy’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Silvia is a Junior Scientist at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from Bocconi University and was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. She was a visiting researcher at Princeton University and at the Hertie School in Berlin. Her research focuses on environmental policy and politics. In her work, she investigates the determinants of environmental attitudes and policy preferences, the impact of environmental change on political behavior, and the political economy of the environment more broadly. She is currently the deputy coordinator of the Horizon Europe Project CAPABLE. 

Mary is a postdoctoral researcher at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) in Milan, Italy. She holds an MSc and DPhil in Social Data Science from the University of Oxford. Her research interests lie at the intersection of social science, data science, and environmental politics. She combines qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse complex issues related to the advancement of climate activism and policy. At EIEE, she works on the EU Horizon project CAPABLE, investigating public acceptability of environmental policy, the role of political actors, and assessments of approaches to citizen engagement.