Draft:Massimo Filippini

Massimo Filippini is a Swiss economist known for his contributions to energy economics and policy. He is currently the director of the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) at ETH Zurich. He has been a dual professor of public economics and energy economics at ETH Zurich and the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) since October 1999. In addition to this, he is a member of the Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich (CER-ETH), a research affiliate at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) at MIT, founder and coordinator of the network Empirical Methods in Energy Economics (EMEE), and a member of the board of Country Representatives of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE).

Biography
Filippini obtained a Master's degree in economics from the University of Zurich in 1987. He later earned a Ph.D. in economics from the same institution in 1991 and his habilitation (post-doctoral lecturing qualification) in 1996. In 1999, he was appointed as a full professor of economics at ETH Zurich and Universita della Svizzera Italiana (dual professorship) and became the director of the Center for Energy Policy and Economics at ETH Zurich. In 2003, he was awarded the title of Professor (Titularprofessor) in economics at the University of Zurich.

Throughout his career, Filippini has held various visiting positions at institutions such as Harvard University and MIT, where he served as a visiting scholar and research associate, respectively.

Work
Filippini's research areas include energy economics and policy, behavioral economics, applied econometrics, and public economics. His research interests span a wide range of topics, including energy efficiency, energy and development, regulation of energy markets, productivity analysis of firms, pension economics, sustainable finance, and evaluation of energy policy instruments through econometric methods.

Filippini has authored more than 110 articles in peer-reviewed journals, contributed to book chapters, and co-authored the textbook "An Introduction to Energy Economics and Policy" with Dr. Suchita Srinivasan, published by Cambridge University Press. He consistently ranks among the top 2% of European economists according to IDEAS, the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics. Filippini is an associate editor for the Journal of Productivity Analysis. and he is part of the editorial board of some journals such as the Energy Journal, and Energy Efficiency.

In addition, he is regularly invited to RSI and SRF and, the Swiss national radio and television broadcasting companies, to provide his expert opinion on various topics including pricing of energetic transition, petrol prices, and CO2 taxation. Finally, he actively contributes as an economist to the activities promoted by Protect Our Winters, a Swiss non-profit organization dedicated to protect the environment.