Serena Pontoglio is Policy Officer in the Energy Efficiency Unit at the European Commission DG ENER. Mrs Pontoglio previously worked as a Scientific Officer at DG RTD and at the European Research Council. Mrs Pontoglio has also been a research fellow at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). She holds a Ph.D in Emission trading and innovation from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan as well as a Master, in Management of Environmental Resources from the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca.