Giulia Pizzini (MSc.) is a Senior Energy Expert at the Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy (IEECP). Giulia has over 10-year experience as project adviser and programme manager. 

She is the coordinator of the PROSPECT CUBE project and works in other projects such as REGILIENCE+ and Adaptation Hubs. She was co-coordinating the NECPlatform project.  

Before joining IEECP she has been working in the Executive Agencies of the European Commission (EASME and CINEA) dealing mainly with the evaluation, management and assessment of Horizon 2020 projects. Her main fields of expertise include European Energy and Climate Policy, with a focus energy and climate planning in cities and regions (Covenant of Mayors, European Energy Award, energy management systems, etc.), climate adaptation, multilevel governance, the energy efficiency first principle, energy modelling and impact assessments (including multiple impacts of EE). She has been involved in the organization of the Covenant of Mayors Investment Forum – Energy Efficiency Finance Market Place from 2019 to 2021.  

Previously, she has been working with local and regional authorities in awareness raising, education and communication campaigns in the fields of sustainable energy, climate change and waste. Giulia holds a MSc. in Environmental Policy and Regulation at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences and a MSc in International and Diplomatic Sciences at the University of Trieste.  

Gulia is sitting in the board of ECEEE (European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy). She has recently served as an external expert for the Committee of the Regions for the opinion Mainstreaming climate, energy and environmental priorities across the Multiannual Financial Framework (rapporteur Mayor Rafał Kazimierz TRZASKOWSKI).