Professor Antonio Andreoni 

Antonio Andreoni is Professor of Development Economics at the Department of Economics of SOAS University of London and Co-Director of the Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation (CSST). He is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the South African Research Chair in Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg and Advisor of CIDEG, Tsinghua University. Antonio is an internationally renowned expert on inclusive and sustainable structural transformation, with a focus on green industrialisation and industrial policy. At CSST Antonio leads work on energy transition, critical minerals, supply chains, infrastructure and business models development.  

He has published extensively in top journals including World Development, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Development and Change, Energy Policy, and co-edited Structural Transformation in South Africa, Oxford University Press 2021. Antonio has advised several organisations – UNIDO, UNCTAD, ILO, UNDP, UNECA, World Bank, OECD – and national governments – EU, UK, Portugal, South Africa, Mauritius, Tanzania and Uganda. Antonio holds a PhD from Cambridge University.