Massimo Filippini is a Full Professor of Economics and has had a joint professorship at the ETH Zurich and the Università della Svizzera Italiana since October 1999. He is the director of the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) at ETH Zürich and a member of the board of Country Representatives of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). He studied economics at the University of Zurich, where he also received his doctorate. His main areas of research are the economics of energy efficiency, energy and development, empirical analysis of energy demand, regulation and deregulation of the energy markets, productivity and efficiency analysis of firms, as well as evaluation of energy policy instruments.