Jean-Michel Glachant is Director of the Florence School of Regulation and holder of the Loyola de Palacio Chair at the European University Institute in Florence. He has been coordinator or scientific adviser for several European research projects such as THINK, Optimate, SESSA, CESSA, Reliance, EU-DEEP, RefGov, TradeWind and Secure. He is chief editor of EEEP: Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy, the new academic journal of the International Association for Energy Economics, and is a member of the board of IAEE.