Andrea Bassi

Job Title: 
Deputy Director for Project Development and Modeling
Organization: 

Since joining MI in 2005, with a background in economics and
integrated system modeling, Andrea has conducted research and led a
variety of integrated and cross-sectoral studies on energy and climate
policy, collaborating with governments and leading political, academic
and professional institutions worldwide, especially in the United
States, Europe and in the Southern African region.

Results of Andrea’s studies are being published in scientific journals, including Energy Policy, Energy Economics and Energy for Sustainable Development, and in technical reports, such as the one titled “Climate Policy Impacts on the Competitiveness of Energy-Intensive Manufacturing Sectors”, prepared for the National Commission on Energy Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington DC, USA.

Andrea
is also Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) at the Earth and
Environmental Sciences Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory,
where he researches energy and environmental issues through the
integration of various modeling approaches and methodologies.

Prior
to joining MI, Andrea worked in the private sector for three years.
Andrea is a Ph.D. candidate in System Dynamics at the University of
Bergen, Norway, where he received a M.Phil. in System Dynamics in 2006.
 He also holds a M.Sc. in business and economics from LIUC, Università
Cattaneo Castellanza, Milan, and the post graduate certificate
"Building Models in Ecology and Environment" from the Catedra UNESCO of
the Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. Andrea is fluent
in Italian (native), English and French.