Cristina Peñasco is a Senior Research Economist and a Climate Economics Expert at the Centre for Climate Change of the Banque de France where she assist the Expert Network on Research of the Network for Greening the Financial Systema (NGFS). She is also an Associate Professor in Public Policy at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in Economics at Queens’ College Cambridge (currently on leave). Her research lines bring together multidisciplinary research in environmental economics, innovation policy and energy economics in green and energy efficiency technologies, with a focus on the evaluation of policy instruments enabling the transition to decarbonised economies.