Simone Tagliapietra is Adjunct Professor of Global Energy and Environment Fundamentals at The Johns Hopkins University - SAIS Europe, Senior Fellow at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Research Fellow at Bruegel. With a record of more than 200 publications, he is also the author of ‘Global Energy Fundamentals’ (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and ‘Energy Relations in the Euro-Mediterranean’ (Palgrave, 2017). His columns and policy work are published and cited in leading international media such as the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Il Sole 24 Ore, and others. He holds a PhD from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where he lectures at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences.