Valentino Piana is the ENoLL Senior Climate Strategist, assisting the Network and its Members in strategies for mitigation, adaptation and global impact. An IPCC reviewer of the Special Report on Cities and Climate Change, he is an evolutionary economist and consultant.

After graduating from Bocconi University in Milan in 1994, he taught macroeconomics and microeconomics at the University of Economics in Cracow. From 2000 to 2008 he was a senior consultant at a strategic consulting boutique firm in Rome, and since 2000 he has led the Economics Web Institute.

He is a member of the EU Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform and co-facilitator of several working groups at the UNECE Informal Task Force on E-Mobility. At Factual Consulting he leads a DUT project on reimagining parking spaces, and at the Urban Lab of the Open Urbanism Foundation he supports economic strategies to implement the outcomes of participatory processes.