CATERINA GENNAIOLI

Associate Professor of Environmental Economics

Associate Dean for Research

School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London.

Visiting Senior Fellow, Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Research Fields:

Political Economy, Development Economics, Environmental Economics.

Welcome to my website! I am an Associate Professor of Environmental Economics at Queen Mary University and Associate Dean for Research at the School of Business. I have broad interdisciplinary interests on complex phenomena, mostly related to the environment and climate change. My research acknowledges the interplay between environmental economics, development and political economy, with distinctive work on imperative issues like climate policy, deforestation, informal waste dumping and conflict. My recent work revolves around three main themes: i) climate policy evaluation, with a defining focus on its unintended effects, e.g. corruption, carbon leakage, ii) determinants of climate policy adoption at the domestic and international level, and iii) political economy analysis of environmental issues in developing countries.  

I hold an MSc in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a PhD in Economics from Bocconi University. Before joining Queen Mary, I worked for five years as a Research Officer at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Grantham Research Institute). I joined Queen Mary in 2016 and served as Director of the Centre for Globalisation Research from 2017 to 2025.

You can find my CV here.