Mailing address
Center for International Development, Rubenstein 506
79 John F. Kennedy Street, Mailbox 34
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Gloria Visconti
Affiliate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy; Fellow, Center for International Development
Contact:
Telephone: 617-496-0426
Fax: 617-496-8753
Email: gloria_visconti@ksg.harvard.edu
Experience
Gloria Visconti is a Practitioner Fellow at Harvard's Center for International Development and an Affiliate of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy group at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her research is on how European countries and the EU are thinking about biofuels, including related policy and trade issues. She was Chief of Staff for the Director General of the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea after working as a Policy Advisor for the Ministry. She has been engaged in international negotiations relating to the Johannesburg Summit, Preparation of G8 Summits, and the UN Commission on Sustainable Development as well as bilateral cooperation agreements, including those of Italy-US on climate change research and new technologies, and Italy-Iraq on the restoration of the Marshlands. Prior to working for the Ministry she worked at the European Commission in Brussels on project evaluation. Visconti spent two years working at the Italian National Agency for the Environment and Energy (ENEA) focusing on air quality legislation in the European Member States. She has a degree in Political Science from the University of Rome La Sapienza and wrote her thesis on sustainable agriculture and European legislation. She received her Masters in Environmental Management and Control from the Sant' Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa.
June 5, 2007
Implications of a Future Global Biofuels Market for Economic Development and International Trade
Report
By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program, William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP;, Robert Lawrence, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Gloria Visconti, Affiliate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy; Fellow, Center for International Development
Summary report from a joint ENRP/Sustainablity Science Program workshop convening experts from academia, international institutions, government, and the private sector to explore possible implications of emerging global biofuels markets for economic development and international trade.
