Cyril is an award-winning filmmaker and audiovisual professional. His work touches on identity, culture, language, music, education and human rights. The short films he directed have been selected in numerous international film festivals and have won numerous awards. With a background in lyrical singing and cello playing, he pours his heart into every project he leads.

After 3 years working at LinkedIn producing LinkedIn Learning content, Cyril is excited to join the EUI and support its mission of making a positive impact on society. Engaged in sustainable actions, he’s eager to bring fresh ideas to the Florence School of Regulation and lead innovative projects.

Michele Pinto is a filmmaker with extensive international experience in both film and media production.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Bologna. His filmmaking career began as a self-taught videographer, collaborating with migrant organisations in Greece. In 2019, he completed a Master’s degree in Filmmaking from the University of the West of Scotland in Glasgow, where he honed his technical expertise in production and post-production, while gaining critical insights into pre-production processes.

In recent years, Michele has worked with the Multimedia Unit of the European Parliament and the communications team at Schuman Associates, in Brussels, focusing on the creation of innovative video content for European institutions and companies.

Roberta is a Project Associate at the Florence School of Regulation (FSR), where she coordinates the Lights on Women initiative and contributes to the School’s strategic development. In this role, she supports the promotion of gender equality and women’s leadership in the energy and climate sectors through community building, communications, and project management. She first joined FSR as a Training Trainee and later became a Training Assistant, gaining experience in coordinating executive training programmes and fostering collaboration across international stakeholders. Roberta holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a Master’s degree in Cultures, Education and Global Society from the University of Padua, as well as a postgraduate certificate in Leadership for International Relations and Made in Italy from Fondazione Italia USA. Before joining FSR, she worked at the United Nations Headquarters in Vienna, supporting initiatives on health and social policy.

Ben Wender is a Special Advisor to Commissioner Patty Monahan at the California Energy Commission (CEC), where his priorities include electric vehicle charging deployment and strategies to integrate EV charging into electric grid operations and planning.  Prior to serving as Special Advisor, he worked in the CEC’s Research and Development Division funding technology advancement and demonstration projects including several focused on bidirectional charging. Before moving to California, he worked at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington DC where he managed studies on electric grid modernization, electricity system resilience, and vehicle fuel economy technologies. He received a Masters and PhD in Sustainability Engineering from Arizona State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Hampshire College. 

Ginevra Le Moli is part-time Professor at the Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute (EUI), and a Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy & Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), where she serves as the Managing Editor of the C-EENRG Research Series. She started her academic career as Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies in 2019, where she was tenured in 2021.

Ginevra is a general international lawyer with research interests both in foundational areas, including human rights and environmental law, as well as emerging fields, such as the governance of negative emission technologies (including geo-engineering) and global health security. She has published over 30 studies (a monograph, edited collections, articles, chapters and policy papers), and she has co-authored several reports and studies commissioned by intergovernmental organizations.

Her book Human Dignity in International Law was published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press. Her work has appeared in some of the leading generalist and specialist publications in the field, including the British Yearbook of International Law, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, the American Journal of International Law, the Leiden Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Economic Law, the Chinese Journal of International Law or the Journal of International Criminal Justice, and in high impact interdisciplinary journals, such as The Lancet. At present, she is working on the first Oxford Commentary of the WHO International Health Regulations, together with G.-L. Burci and J.E. Viñuales for Oxford University Press.

Ginevra is a member of an interdisciplinary consortium which in 2023 was awarded a EUR 7 million Horizon Europe grant for a project on ocean-based carbon dioxide removal techniques, ‘Strategies for the Evaluation and Assessment of Ocean based Carbon Dioxide Removal’ (SEAO2-CDR). The project will run from 2023 to 2027 and she coordinates the governance aspects from the EUI Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, Florence School of Regulation (FSR). Between 2020 and 2022, she completed a research project at C-EENRG, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, titled ‘Who owns natural resources?’, studying governance and property entitlements over natural resources, including energy.

She has an expanding portfolio of practice, including as a consultant for international organizations, legal advisor and co-counsel in international proceedings before human rights bodies and the International Court of Justice. After graduating as a lawyer, Ginevra practiced law and advocacy for a decade both in private practice and in the public interest sector, moving from the commercial litigation and arbitration department of leading Italian law firm Bonelli Erede, to public interest work in the outskirts of New Delhi for an NGO (Navdanya) at the forefront of the seed varieties debate, to field missions in Syria (Damascus, Idlib, Homs and Aleppo) and Yemen (Sana’a and Taiz) to collect testimonies and evidence for UN Investigative Mechanisms. She also worked for the UN Human Rights Committee, for the OHCHR, in mass proceedings before the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights and in investment arbitration proceedings.

Ginevra holds a Ph.D. in Public International Law (summa cum laude) from the Graduate Institute of International Law and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva. She also holds an LL.B. and a Masters in Law (cum laude) from the University of Roma Tre, an LL.M. in International Law from the Graduate Institute (cum laude) and a Diploma in International Law from the LSE (UK) and Advanced Certificate on the prevention of pandemics from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Harvard Medical School (US).

Ellen is a research associate at the Florence School of Regulation (FSR), where she is co-director of the Evolution of Electricity Markets in Europe course. She holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from KU Leuven and Vlerick Business School, Belgium. During her PhD, she examined distribution network planning, flexibility mechanisms, and regulatory sandboxes using both quantitative and qualitative research methods. She graduated from KU Leuven as an engineer specialising in energy in 2019.

Emma is part of the FSR research team in electricity regulation and policy. Her main research interest is the long-term component of the EU electricity market design, which covers capacity mechanisms, flexibility support schemes and renewable support schemes. She is currently a PhD candidate of the FSR-Loyola de Palacio Chair, investigating the future of capacity mechanisms in Europe.

Before joining FSR in May 2023, she worked as a trainee in the Strategy and Assessment team of the French TSO RTE and in the Energy team of the consultancy Compass Lexecon. She holds two Master’s degree, in Engineering from CentraleSupélec with a specialisation in Energy Grids, and in Energy Economics from Paris Saclay University–IFPEN-INSTN.

Lea Heinrich is a Project Assistant in the Climate Area at the Florence School of Regulation since 2023, where she supports the LIFE COASE project.

Before joining FSR Climate, she worked in Brussels as a Policy Advisor at the European Association of Services of General Interest SGI Europe, representing German public employers and utilities. Before that, she gained professional experience in the European Parliament and policy consultancies.

Lea holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a Bachelor’s degree in European Studies from Maastricht University. She speaks German, English and Italian.

Marie Missao Raude is a postdoctoral researcher in economics at the Florence School of Regulation Climate, where she works on the design and regulation of carbon markets. A key component of her work involves the analysis of EU Emissions Trading System data to monitor the system’s performance. She holds a PhD in Economics from Paris Nanterre University. Her doctoral research examines the functioning of the EU Emissions Trading System, with a particular focus on market microstructure and the behaviour of regulated firms and financial actors. Her research aims to contribute to a better understanding of how carbon markets can be designed to support effective and efficient climate policy.

Alessia Casamassima is an Academic Researcher at Florence School of Regulation (FSR) and she is involved in the CAPABLE project. She holds a PhD in Economics at the University of Bari (Italy). Her research is focused on Environmental decision-making, Energy economics, Energy Poverty, and Behavioural economics, considering individual aspects such as individual perception, public support, and individual preferences. Her works are based on the analysis of surveys at the European level.