Carlo Stagnaro is research and studies director of Istituto
Bruno Leoni, a Milan-based think tank. Before that he
was chief of the Minister’s Technical Staff at the Italian
Ministry of Economic Development. He has an MSc in environmental engineering from the University of Genoa and
a PhD in economics, markets, institutions from IMT Alti
Studi – Lucca.

Carlo is a member of the IEA’s Academic
Advisory Council as well as a research fellow of Epicenter,
a fellow of the Italian Observatory on Energy Poverty and
a member of the editorial board of the magazines Energia
and Aspenia.

For the IEA he wrote Power Cut? How the EU
Is Pulling the Plug on Electricity Markets (2015). His latest
book is Molte Riforme per Nulla (Marsilio, 2022), written
with Alberto Saravalle. He is an economic columnist
for the Italian daily magazine Il Foglio. He is on Twitter
@CarloStagnaro