Visiting Researcher, Environment and Natural Resources Program
Guido Cimadamore-Werthein is a Visiting Researcher with the Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center. He is doing a PhD at the University of Cambridge (UK) on the socio-economic impact of renewable energy policy in Latin America, using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. His interests surround social and political dynamics of sustainability transitions, with a particular focus on how collective action (such as public policy) can be designed to protect and strengthen communities in vulnerable situations.
Before the PhD, Cimadamore-Werthein did internships at the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Clean Energy Department of the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries (NORFUND), and economic consultancies, where he had the opportunity to contribute to analyses on renewable energy investments and climate-resilient smallholder agriculture programs in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. He holds an M.Sc. (Double Degree) in the Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology (Bocconi University, Italy) and Economics and Business Administration (Norwegian School of Economics, Norway), and has contributed as a Teaching Assistant to courses about microeconomics and environmental policy, and as a Research Assistant in projects around labor and behavioral economics.