Ms.Gloria Visconti :: Sustainability Science Program :: Center for International Development

Sustainability Science Program

Gloria Visconti is a Giorgio Ruffolo Fellow in the Mid-Career Master in Public Administration Program at Harvard�s Kennedy School of Government. Her research is on how European countries and the EU are thinking about biofuels, including related policy and trade issues. She was a Research Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard�s Center for International Development. 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.