Stefano Cisternino works at the point where European environmental policy becomes public: how a rule is explained, and what fills the space when it is not.

He comes to IEEP from the European Commission, where he worked from 2023 to 2025 inside the departments that write the Green Deal. At the Directorate-General for Environment he handled press relations and ran a campaign on textile consumption across three national markets. At the Directorate-General for Agriculture he built the online platform of the Rural Pact, the EU network for rural areas, and edited its first magazine. At the Joint Research Centre, the Commission’s science service, he was co-editor of the report measuring how far the Green Deal had come towards its own targets, a text produced twice over, once for the Commission’s leadership and once for everyone else.

He has reported on energy and climate policy since 2019 for Italian and European outlets. He also directs the Italian Observatory on Climate Misinformation, which follows how environmental rules are distorted on their way to the public, and this remains his main research interest.

He holds a master’s in Sustainable Development and Climate Change from the University of Pisa and a master’s in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University. He works in Italian, English and Spanish.

He co-created the Climate Disinformation Bingo, a card game of the arguments that come back in every climate debate, launched at the EU Climate Pact Summit in Brussels.