Massimo Tavoni is a distinguished Italian economist and academic widely recognized as one of Europe’s leading experts on climate change economics.
He is a Professor of Climate Change Economics at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano and Scientific Director of the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE), a partnership between Resources for the Future and the Fondazione CMCC. 

His academic formation is notably interdisciplinary: he holds a Laurea cum Laude in Engineering from the University of Bologna, an MSc in Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Political Economics from the Catholic University of Milan. 

He coordinated the Climate Change Mitigation programme at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) between 2015 and 2018, and previously served as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University.

 
His research focuses on designing strategies and policies for addressing climate change, spanning environmental and energy economics, behavioural economics, and integrated assessment modeling. He has been a lead author on both the 5th and 6th Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and co-directs the International Energy Workshop.

He also served as deputy editor of the journal Climatic Change and has been a recipient of grants from the European Research Council (ERC). His research has been published extensively in peer-reviewed literature, including work recognized in Time magazine’s list of the 50 Best Inventions of 2009.
Through his roles at the intersection of academia, policy, and international research institutions, Tavoni has established himself as a key voice in shaping evidence-based climate policy at both European and global levels.