Picture: Miguel Riopa I am a professor in the
Department of Applied Economics at the
University of Vigo and assistant director of the Galician inter-university research center in social sciences
ECOBAS. I am also a director of
Economics for Energy, a private non-profit research center that specializes in the analysis of energy issues. I am research affliate of the
CEEPR at the MIT and member of Scientific Council of
Elcano Royal Institute. I have collaborated with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (
IPCC) in the production of its
Fifth and
Sixth Assessment Reports (respectively released in 2014 and in 2022). Moreover, between 2014 and 2017 I was the director of the
Florence School of Regulation-Climate at the
European University Institute in Florence. My research interests lay in the boundaries between climate, energy and public economics: My work has been published in leading academic journals and I regularly participate in conferences and workshops, in many cases as the organizing host. I have supervised several doctoral students, led many research projects, both public and privately funded, and enjoyed several research stays at different universities abroad. In my
academic work I have always attempted to respond, with rigor and neutrality, to relevant socio-economic issues and looked for channels through which such findings could be widely
diffused to society, media, firms, and policymakers. In this sense, I am member of the
EAERE's Policy Outreach Committee since its creation in 2018 (Secretary General from January 2024). Moreover, I was a member of the
Committee of Experts for the Reform of the Spanish Tax System to produce its white book (presented in March 2022). I was awarded with the
Galician Academy of Sciences medal on research achievements in economics and social sciences in its first edition (2019).
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