David Chiaramonti

David Chiaramonti, PhD, is full professor of Energy Economics as well as Bioeconomy at the Politecnico di Torino and chairs the Renewable Energy COnsortium for R&D (RE-CORD). He was former Vice Rector for International Affairs at Politecnico di Torino (2021-2024).

He authored >180 journal publications and coordinated or participated to many EU projects on biofuels, biochar and bioeconomy.
 

• On biofuels, he focuses on innovative solutions to Advanced Biofuels, process and sustainability modelling, and policy analysis and scenario modelling.
   
• On biochar, he focuses on biochar production technologies, reactor design and innovative processes, product characterization, carbon permanence and use in soil, biochar applications in energy and non-energy sectors (as steel and cement), integration of biochar in the GHG balance of biofuels, and EU-International policies.
   

Former member of IEA-Bioenergy TCP, he is member of the UN-ICAO task force on Alternative Fuels for aviation (WG5), EU ETIP-Bioenergy, and Board member of the Italian Cluster SPRING on green Chemistry.

He coordinated the DG ENER ART Fuel industrial Forum on sustainable biofuel production and use, and formerly the EU European Sustainable Biofuel Forum.

He provides technical support to various EC DGs and Italian Ministries on sustainable biofuels studies and assessments, as well as ICAO. He is member of the Expert Group on Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming by EC DG Clima.

He was awarded the Linneborn Prize at EUBCE-2017 in Stockholm, and is included in the Stanford University list of 2% most cited scientist.

Since June 2025 he chair the Biofuture Platform, a Clean Energy Ministerial global initiative of 24 Countries, with IEA acting as facilitator.