Olga Chiappinelli

Dr. Olga Chiappinelli is a Research Associate at The German Institute for Economic Research.
She joined the Climate Policy Department in March 2016.
She is an applied microeconomic theorist.
Her main research interests are Public Procurement and Regulation, with a particular focus on environmental aspects.
Her research has been published in Economic Inquiry, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and Scandinavian Journal of Economics (forthcoming).
Since 2016 she has been involved in several projects on policy design for industrial decarbonization at both national and international levels and for the EU Commission.
She has organized a number of multi-stakeholder workshops and co-authored numerous reports in the context of the Climate Friendly Materials Platform, an EU-wide project on policy design for industrial decarbonization.
She was invited as a speaker on policies for industrial decarbonization at many events in various EU countries and in Brussels.
Her work on policies for industrial decarbonization, and in particular on the role of Green Public Procurement, has been cited in the media.
She is also a member of the Berlin Economic Research Associates (BERA) Program and the Berlin Center for Consumer Policies (BCCP).
In 2015, she obtained her Ph.D.
in Economics from the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca.
She holds B.Sc.
and M.Sc.
in Economics from the University of Sienna.
During her studies, she spent visiting periods at the University of Oxford and the University College London.