Science, Environment and Development Group

Ms. Gloria Visconti
Center for International Development
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
506 Rubenstein Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-496-0426
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: gloria_visconti "at" ksg.harvard.edu
Group affiliation: Research Fellow

Gloria Visconti is a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development and Associate in the Energy Technology Innovation Project at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is a doctoral student at the Bologna University in Italy. Her research is on how European countries and the EU are thinking about biofuels, including related policy and trade issues. She was Chief of Staff for the Director General of the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea after working as a Policy Advisor for the Ministry. She has been engaged in international negotiations relating to the Johannesburg Summit, Preparation of G8 Summits, and the UN Commission on Sustainable Development as well as bilateral cooperation agreements, including those of Italy-US on climate change research and new technologies, and Italy-Iraq on the restoration of the Marshlands. Prior to working for the Ministry she worked at the European Commission in Brussels on project evaluation. Visconti spent two years working at the Italian National Agency for the Environment and Energy (ENEA) focusing on air quality legislation in the European Member States. She has a degree in Political Science from the University of Rome La Sapienza and wrote her thesis on sustainable agriculture and European legislation. She received her Masters in Environmental Management and Control from the Sant' Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa.