Dr. Giacomo Luciani is a Scientific Advisor of the Master in International Energy at the Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and Adjunct Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He also teaches the Master of Science in International Trading students at the University of Geneva. In 2010-13 he was a Global Scholar at Princeton University.
Dr. Luciani has worked and consulted for major international energy companies and governments of oil-exporting countries. His work focuses on the political economy of MENA and global energy issues. His latest co-edited book, When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable? (Palgrave 2020) discusses the meaning and challenges of sustainability for the GCC economies. In 2021 The Handbook of International Energy Economics, which he co-edited with Manfred Hafner, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan.
