Roberto Cardinale is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction at UCL. He was previously Assistant Professor of Economics at The American University in Cairo. He is also Research Fellow at Italy’s National University Centre for Applied Economics, and Associate Editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. He was previously a Visiting Researcher at Renmin University of China in Beijing. He also conducted research at the University of Cambridge (UK), Sungkyunkwan University (Seoul, South Korea) and Galatasaray University (Istanbul, Turkey). He received his PhD from University College London (UCL).
Dr. Cardinale is pursuing several research projects at the interface between energy, infrastructure, and public policy, with a special interest in the energy relations among Mediterranean countries. An important current project concerns the economics and regulation of renewable energy and green hydrogen in the MENA region. In addition, he has provided contributions on the North Africa – EU natural gas trade, on the economics and regulation of transnational gas infrastructure, and on the formation of gas prices. In the years before the current energy crisis, against the consensus of the time, he warned on the imminence of shortage and hence of high gas prices. His contribution has become influential in academic and industry debates.
His research was awarded the “Stuart O. Schweitzer Memorial Prize 2023-24” by Italy’s National University Centre for Applied Economic Studies, and the “Ermenegildo Zegna Founder’s Scholarship” by the Zegna Group. He is co-PI of a Horizon Europe grant (EUR 11m) for the development of a new generation of biofuel, awarded to a consortium of 18 industrial and academic partners from Europe and Africa; EUR 110k is the share he directly manages.
