Massimo Tavoni, is associate professor at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano, and coordinator of the Climate Change Mitigation programme at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. He has been fellow at the Center for Advanced Studied in Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University, and post doctoral fellow at Princeton University. His research is about climate change mitigation policies, and has appeared in major scientific journals. He was a lead author of the 5th assessment report of the IPCC, co-directs of the International Energy Workshop and is deputy editor for the journal ‘Climatic Change’. He is the recipient of a grant from the European Research Council (ERC).