Opravy

I have just completed my internship at CIRAD, one of the main French research centre working to face agriculture and development issues in the global South and the Mediterranean.

I always had a strong interest in the global challenges societies face nowadays.

Having pursued a Bachelor degree in Economics and Business Administration partially slaked my thirst of knowledge.

Indeed, it provided me with a thorough understanding of how human organizations work, from the smallest enterprise to deregulated international markets.

I said partially slaked.

I was starting to grasp economic mechanism and their theoretical perfection, yet I was struck by inconsistencies all across the world surrounding me.

Voraciously devouring international newspapers, weighty market failures such as spreading inequalities and environmental crisis kept leaping out at me every day.

Ergo, I decided to go witness first-hand the unfolding of such externalities.

I gathered up my savings and I travelled six months all around southern Asia from India to Indonesia, and I volunteered six months in Zambia.

I was still seeking to extinguished my thirst.

This time my throat was dried out from the necessity to broad my vision by shifting point of views, to grow through discovering new cultures and, as said, to see where the economic gear was jammed.

That experience left me eager to dedicate my life to the environmental question.

Environmental issues entangle both negative and positive externalities.

Both, environmental dumping and vital ecosystem services are a reality and they have one thing in common.

They do not get measured: we value wellbeing in terms of money, through GDP and we do it a national level, while most environmental challenges such as climate change and natural resources overexploitation are global matters indeed.

Reasoning about how a scattered group of sovereign nations could cooperate to solve globally shared challenges and how to measure the value of nature led me to a fortunate move.

I enrolled in the University of Turin’s Master in Environmental Economics and Policy.

I spent a year and a half honing my analytical skills over the great challenges of this century, which can all be summarised by the necessity to make the life of future generations at least as desirable as ours.

Among these intertwined issues, the transition toward a low carbon economy became the bee in my bonnet.

Thus, I won a scholarship to spend a semester at the prestigious Norwegian School of Economics to refine my insight into energy and energy markets.

I reasonably think this brief résumé of my life might show why I decided to apply for the position of wholesale energy policy intern at EFET.

On the one hand, the chance of being part of an outstanding European organisation, filled with talented thinkers and to contribute, as a European citizen, to such a strategic aspect of our society as gas and electricity markets harmonization, makes me thrilled.

A close collaboration with EFET members would represent a stunning opportunity to flourish as a professional as much as a human being, deeply delving into my fields of interests and expertise.

On the other I believe I can stand out as an asset to EFET.

Your organisation would benefit from a multilingual person who completely sticks to EFET’s Core Principles.

I think my solid academic background in relevant aspects of your organisations and my experience in the field of research and international cooperation would make me a very well suited candidate for the position.