Pierpaolo CAZZOLA
Director of ETERC/ITS-UC

Pierpaolo Cazzola is the Director of the European Transport and Energy Research Centre of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. Pierpaolo is also a Nonresident
Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and an independent author of targeted analyses on transport, energy, sustainability, technology and innovation for public institutions.
Pierpaolo spent more than 20 years working internationally at the intersection of transport, energy and environmental sustainability. He was advisor on energy, technology and environmental sustainability for the International Transport Forum (2019-2022), transport lead in the Energy Technology Policy Division of the International Energy Agency (2014-2019), coordinator of the Electric Vehicles Initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial (2016-2019), Secretary of the Working Party
on Pollution and Energy of the World Forum for the Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29) of the United Nations (2011-2014), amongst other roles. In 2022, he also supported the Italian Government, during the Draghi tenure, to elaborate policies on transport decarbonisation.
Pierpaolo has a Master degree in Energy Economics from the Institut Français du Pétrole et Énergies Nouvelles, a Master in Aerospace Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino and a Bachelor of
Engineering in Aeronautics from the University of Glasgow.