Professor of Environmental Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He was President (Rector) of the University of Venice from 2009 to 2014. He is Vice-Chair of the Working Group III and Member of the Bureau of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is also President of the Italian National Committee on Climate Change Impacts on Infrastructures and Mobility established by the Italian Minister of Transports and Infrastructures, and he is a member of EU-DG ECFIN High Level Advisory Group in Brussels. Among the many roles and positions covered, he has been President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Chair of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform, an initiative of the World Bank. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University.