With a varied background, ranging from policy to law and economics, Giacomo has 15 years of experience working in think tanks and consultancy companies, as well as in academia. He likes numbers, but also complex EU directives, and has a great passion for understanding how companies, markets and institutions work and interact. Giacomo has supported several EU institutions in impact assessments and evaluations, often managing very complex projects and coordination of diverse competencies. His main skills are the preparation of impact assessment studies and the assessment of regulatory costs and benefits. In fact, Giacomo is a regulation geek, having read the ‘better regulation toolbox’ of the European Commission from start to finish and contributed to drafting parts of it.

Giacomo has developed expertise in various policy domains. In the area of fiscal studies, he has led major impact assessments of the VAT Directive and other forms of taxation, including excise duties and direct taxes. He has carried out several assignments related to energy policies and environmental sustainability, including sustainability reporting, energy tax indicators, price and cost of energy for industrial customers, and green public procurement. He also works on industrial policies, carrying out cost assessments of the European legal framework for the steel, aluminum, glass, and ceramics industries.

Giacomo has a PhD in Law and Economics and a BSc in Political Science from LUISS University (Italy) as well as an LLM in Law and Economics from the Universities of Rotterdam and Gent (Netherlands and Belgium). Enthusiastic about teaching, he is contract professor in European Policies and Policymaking at LUISS University and leads training courses on regulatory policymaking, regulatory impact analysis and EU policies for civil servants and private organizations.