Carlo Stagnaro is the Director of the Digital Economy Observatory at Istituto Bruno Leoni and member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs. Prior to that he was Chief of the Minister’s Technical Staff at Italy’s Ministry for Economic Development. He is a member of the editorial board of the quarterly journal “Energia” as well as a fellow of the Italian Observatory on Energy Poverty at the University of Padua’s Levi-Cases Center.