Margherita Bianchi is Head of the IAI's "Energy, climate and resources" programme, where she currently coordinates research projects related to Italian, European and international energy and climate policies developments. Her research interests focus on climate policies and their interplay with other policy siloes, energy governance and the related EU external engagement and foreign policy. Before joining the IAI in 2018, she had worked at the European Parliament, with the 2017 task force of the Italian Group of Seven presidency, and interned at the UN Environment Program. Margherita holds political science, international relations and EU affairs degrees from the Catholic University of Milan (BA), the LUISS School of Government in Rome (MA), the Institute of European Studies in Brussels (MA). She frequently provides expert insights to international and Italian news/media outlets.