Chair in Climate Change Finance
Roles and Responsibilities
Director of the Centre for Business, Climate Change, and Sustainability
Background
Luca is a Professor and Chair of Climate Change Finance, and the Director of the Centre for Business, Climate Change, and Sustainability (B-CCaS). Luca is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and a Fellow at CESifo Energy and Climate Economics, Munich.
He has held the position of Visiting Scholar at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, U.S.A. and the Research Center for Sustainability Science at Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
Luca holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Zurich.
Research Interests
Luca's research is interdisciplinary and spans economics and applied finance. It cuts across the fields of environmental and resource economics, financial economics, and industrial organization. He has been applying his research to real-life policies. His research has been supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the European Research Council, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, and the Environmental Defense Fund.