Pedro Linares, Professor of Industrial Engineering at the ICAI School of Engineering and co-founder and Director of Economics for Energy. Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid.

Professor of Industrial Engineering at the ICAI School of Engineering and co-founder and Director of Economics for Energy. Research affiliate at the Institute for Technology Research (IIT), the BP Chair on Energy and Sustainability, and MIT CEEPR. I currently serve as Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs at Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid.  I hold a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from U. Politécnica, Madrid.

Regarding my teaching and research, I would define myself as a jack of all trades (accepting of course the downside of it). I am interested in many topics, many of them connected by a broad idea of sustainability, understood as an integral concept that encompasses economics, the environment, social capital, innovation, and justice. I mostly devote my research to study the relationship between energy, economics and environment, and specifically sustainable energy policy, energy efficiency, and energy models; but I am also interested in decision making (in particular multiple criteria decision methods), social justice, higher education policy, and some others. I have published about most of these issues in the usual journals relevant in the field. I have also been a consultant for several private and public firms and institutions in Spain, Europe and Latin America.

“We need to involve all society to agree on and participate in the energy transition required for decarbonisation”

“Decarbonising the energy sector will require of course renewable energies and energy efficiency. But the absolutely first priority is reducing the amount of energy we use.””