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Pello Aspuru

Economic Fellow

Pello Aspuru is an Economic Fellow at Policy Integrity. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from CEMFI (Madrid, Spain). He works on energy, environmental, and political economy issues using tools from empirical industrial organization. More specifically, his research focuses on the political economy of the energy transition, and how the local communities that rely on fossil fuels for a living exert political pressure to delay such a transition. During his Ph.D., Pello visited the Economics Departments of Columbia University, the Toulouse School of Economics, and the Barcelona School of Economics Energy Research Group. Prior to his graduate studies, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Deusto.

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