Andrea Bacilieri

Biography

Andrea Bacilieri is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Future of Food Programme at the Oxford Martin School and a Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Her research sits at the intersection of complexity science, systems thinking, economics and sustainability. She uses data-driven, computational approaches to study how socio-economic systems interact with climate and ecological challenges, and to identify transformational pathways to address them.

She also examines supply-chain networks and their role in shaping socio-economic and environmental outcomes. She has contributed to the empirical characterisation of firm-level production networks and developed methods to reconstruct missing data in these networks, supporting more realistic and granular representations of the economy.

Her current work focuses on the social, economic and environmental dimensions of food system transformations, with a particular emphasis on socio-economic resilience and shock propagation. She is building an integrated dataset linking input–output, economic, socio-demographic and environmental data, with applications in the development of an agent-based model of the food system. More broadly, she explores how integrated assessment models can be made more empirically grounded, ecologically meaningful and policy-relevant.

She also collaborates with the Climate Litigation Lab at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, on the economics of carbon capture and storage (CCS), and has contributed to work assessing the relative costs of CCS-heavy and CCS-light mitigation pathways.

Andrea completed her DPhil in Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, jointly hosted by INET and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. She has a background in economics, as well as in energy and environmental economics, policy and modelling.