Giulio Mela (ORCID 0000-0003-0359-3625) is an environmental economist at Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico, an Italian research centre on the energy sector. He received a M.Sc. in Management, Economics and Consumer Studies – Economics, Environment and Policy from Wageningen University in 2008 and a PhD in Land, Environment, Resources and Health, specialization Economics from the University of Padua in 2013. In the past, he worked at the Italian Institute of Agricultural Economics (INEA) and, as a post-doc in agricultural and environmental economics, at the Catholic University of Milan. Current research interests include natural resource use, externality and ecosystem services evaluation, effects of active mobility on health, cost-benefit analysis and economic assessment of policy measures in the energy sector.

Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering in 1999 at Politecnico di Milano. He has worked for more than 20 years in the field of Life Cycle Assessment of Energy systems and has worked in CESI, ENI, Politecnico di Milano. He is now responsible for the RSE Research Team on Life Cycle Assessment and is involved in research on energy LCA, externalities evaluation, multi criteria analysis. He is expert member of the IEA PVPS Programme and has coordinated a WG of Cigrè on electricity transmission network environmental externalities.