CRISTINA pEÑASCO

WELCOME TO MY HOMEPAGE!

I am Cristina Peñasco, a Senior Research Economist at the Centre for Climate and Nature of the Banque de France. I was previously an Associate Professor with tenure in Public Policy at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, as well as Director of Studies in Economics at Queens’ College Cambridge. While moving into a policy-facing research role at the Banque de France, I remain closely connected to academia as an Associate Researcher at the Bennett School for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and as a fellow at Queens' College Cambridge. I am also a Centre Fellow at the Centre for the Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) hosted at the Department of Land Economy, and an Affiliate Researcher at the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire d’Évaluation des Politiques Publiques (LIEPP) at Sciences Po. I hold a PhD in Economics from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) (Spain).

My research spans environmental economics, innovation policy, and energy economics, with a focus on green and energy-efficiency technologies and the evaluation of policies supporting the transition to decarbonised economies. My work engages with different aspects of climate policy including environmental outcomes but also the competitiveness and distributional dimensions of climate policy and technological change.