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UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, European Transport and Energy Research Centre
Pierpaolo Cazzola is working with the institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, on the development of its European Transport and Energy Research Centre. His research area lies at the intersection of transport, energy, innovation and climate policy. Mr. Cazzola is also a Global Research Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
He was appointed in 2022 by the Italian Ministry for Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility as an advisor for its "structure for the ecological transition of mobility and infrastructures" (STEMI). This position is tasked to elaborate policy recommendations on transport decarbonization, including in the implementation of the European Green Deal. Mr. Cazzola is also working with the World Bank on the development of policy instruments aiming to manage vehicle emissions.
Prior to these current assignments, Mr. Cazzola spent more than 20 years working internationally at the intersection of transport, energy, and environmental sustainability. His roles included advisor on energy, technology and environmental sustainability for the International Transport Forum (2019-2022), transport lead in the Energy Technology Policy Division of the International Energy Agency (2014-2019), coordinator of the Electric Vehicles Initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial (2016-2019), Secretary of the Working Party on Pollution and Energy of the World Forum for the Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29) of the United Nations (2011-2014), fellow at the Institute of Prospective Technological Studies of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (2010-2011), analyst on material flows at the Environment Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (2010), and transport and energy analyst at the International Energy Agency (2004-2010), where he began his career working on energy balances and CO2 emission statistics (2001-2004).
Mr. Cazzola holds a master’s in energy economics from the Institut Français du Pétrole et Énergies Nouvelles (IFP School, France, 2001), a master’s in aerospace engineering from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy, 2000), and a bachelor’s in engineering in aeronautics from the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom, 1999).