Pier Paolo Raimondi is a researcher at the Energy, Climate and Resources Program of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) and a PhD Candidate at the Catholic University of Milan. Previously, he had been a researcher of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). His research activity concerns the energy markets and energy geopolitics and geoeconomics in different geographical areas, mainly Europe, MENA region, Former Soviet Union area and Africa.