Keynote Speakers
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Dr. Nives Della Valle is a behavioural economist with over a decade of experience at the intersection of research and policy, focusing on how people engage with energy systems. Her work bridges behavioural economics and energy policy, with particular attention to energy poverty, energy citizenship, and decision-making. Before joining the Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy, she was a Policy Analyst at the International Energy Agency, leading analytical work for its People-Centred Clean Energy Transitions programme and she previously served for five years as a Scientific Officer at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, appliyng behavioural insights to energy policy and contributing to major EU documents on energy poverty and efficiency.
Intervention: The Behavioural Aspects of Energy Citizenship
The presentation will build on research conducted for policy at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and continued at the Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy, examining the behavioural dimensions that shape citizens’ roles in the energy transition. By integrating empirical findings, experimental results, and conceptual frameworks, Dr. Della Valle will highlight how behavioural insights can inform more effective and equitable energy policy interventions.
Short Bio
Francisco Javier Santos Arteaga is Assistant Professor in the Department of Financial and Actuarial Economics and Statistics at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is also a researcher in the Statistical Methods and Big Data Applied to Social Sciences Group at Complutense, and the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Group of the Spanish Society of Nephrology. He has participated in multiple national and international competitive research projects ranging from business and management to climate change and medicine.
Intervention: Forward-Looking Dynamic Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Strategic Environments
A common issue in multi-attribute decision-making methods is that rankings are typically based on past evaluations treated as definitive, overlooking both uncertainty and the potential strategic behavior of the experts providing the assessments. This limitation becomes particularly relevant when managing environmental resources exposed to the tragedy of the commons. One possible approach is to assign a probability distribution to each attribute of the evaluated alternatives and simulate multiple future scenarios, taking into account the order in which alternatives are selected, the experts’ assessments, and their credibility. Dr. Santos Arteaga will examine in detail the implications of the resulting strategic scenarios, as well as possible extensions of the model.