3^rd Annual
Smart Grids Smart Cities Forum 2013

After studying economics and urban planning in Italy and the US, Mr Carbonaro worked as a consultant and an academic in the United States, the UK and Italy. Since 1987 he has worked with the European Investment Bank (Luxembourg).
Research interests and professional experience have covered urban end regional economics, transportation analysis, infrastructure policy, cost-benefit analysis, European transportation networks, housing policy and finance, and the interface between urban development and property markets. At the EIB Mr Carbonaro has worked in multi-professional teams covering the economic and financial assessment of large-scale infrastructure projects in transport (urban transport systems, motorways, railways, toll infrastructure) and urban development, within both the European Union and the partner countries. In April 2007 he joined the Bank’s JESSICA (Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas) Task Force and he is now Head of the Municipal and Regional Unit within the Technical and Financial Advice Department.