Marie Curie Fellow, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Francesca is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm (Sweden) and at University of Zurich (Switzerland). She is also an affiliated researcher to the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC).
Her project, LIBRA, aims at computing the sustainability trade-offs of investments in artificial intelligence (AI). Economist by background, Francesca holds a PhD in Climate Change Sciences and Management from Ca’ Foscari University (Venice, Italy).
Prior to joining KTH, she was a postdoc fellow at University College London (UCL) where she worked on low-carbon and climate finance. Francesca’s works have appeared in The Guardian, Bloomberg, the CNN and the Financial Times.
In 2022, the Financial Times awarded her one the 50 global rising stars in ESG. Francesca currently serves as Steering Committee member of the United Nations “AI for Good” Impact Initiative, leading the activities on climate, biodiversity and environmental protection.
