Elisa Baroncini

Director elected from the list presented by the Ministry of the economy and finance. Born in Castel San Pietro Terme (BO) in 1966, she has been Eni Director since May 2023.

She is Professor of International Law at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, where she teaches International Trade and Investment Law, The International Law on Sustainable Development, International Energy Law and she is a member of the teaching board of the PhD program in Juridical Sciences. Founder and Coordinator of DIEcon, the interest group on International Economic Law of the Italian Society of International Law (SIDI), she co-chaired the interest group on International Economic Law of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) in 2012-2022 and since December 2023 she was appointed as a Member of the Executive Council of Society of International Economic Law (SIEL).

In May 2025, Elisa Baroncini was appointed member of the International Law Association’s Committee dedicated to “Contribution of International Law to the Global Sustainable Development Goals and the Post-2030 Agenda”. She is a member of the Journal of World Investment and Trade and of the review Diritto del commercio internazionale – Bologna Editorial Board.

In October 2025, Elisa Baroncini was appointed member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. In December 2024, she was renewed for the 2025-2028 three-year period by the University of Bologna, as a member of the Scientific Council of the Alma Mater Institute for Advanced Studies; in June 2022, she was appointed “TSD Expert” (international arbitrator) by the European Commission for dispute resolution mechanisms of the European Union new generation free trade agreements. She is also a member of the “Interuniversity Centre on the Law of International Economic Organisations” (CIDOIE), as well as a member of the “Associazione delle docenti universitarie dell’Università di Bologna” (AdDU) Scientific Committee.

She participates in various associations and organisations active in the fields of governance and international and European law (Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, Society of International Economic Law, Società italiana di diritto internazionale, International Law Association (ILA) – Branch of Italy, Associazione italiana studiosi di diritto dell’Unione europea).

She is the author of several publications among Italian and foreign publishers and magazines, particularly in the field of international economic law and the external relations and trade policy of the European Union. She has been a Visiting Researcher at the European University Institute (EUI), Visiting Professor at the China-EU School of Law, and member and leader of national and international research projects. After being the coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module Re-Globe (2022-2025), of the Una Europa Seed Funding WHC@50 project, of the Una Europa Seed Funding ImprovEUorGlobe project, and of the project “The World Trade Organization as a key player in sustainable development in the revitalisation of the multilateral system”, financed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), she is currently research manager of “The multilateral trading system as a platform for addressing global challenges: WTO Plurilateral Agreements and Initiatives as governance instruments of the new world economic order” project, co-funded by MAECI.

In addition, Elisa Baroncini holds the Jean Monnet Chair with the SustainEUorPlanet project. Elisa Baroncini’s fields of research include: the multilateral trade reform process; the relationship between trade liberalisation and non-trade values; the new generation of EU free trade agreements; transparency in international economic law; the role of the European Parliament and the Commission in the conclusion of international agreements; UNESCO and international economic law; EU trade policy and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN 2030 Agenda; energy trilemma and international energy law; EU policy on critical raw materials and international economic law; energy, and WTO.

She graduated with honour in law, with the “Baldisserri” award for the best dissertation of the year in European Community Law, from the University of Bologna, where she also obtained a PhD in European Community Law.

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