Simone Tagliapietra is Research Fellow at Bruegel and at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He is also Adjunct Professor at The Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe and Senior Fellow at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. He is the author of Energy Relations in the Euro-Mediterranean (Palgrave, 2017) and The Geoeconomics of Sovereign Wealth Funds and Renewable Energy (Claeys and Casteels, 2012).