Irene Cresci (she/her) joined the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue as a trainee in March 2026. In this role, she works within the Green Transformation Team supporting with their projects, events and publications.

Before joining the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in Brussels, Irene was a BlueBook trainee in the EU Policy Lab of the Joint Research Centre, working on strategic foresight. She also worked as a Research Assistant at University of Pisa, within the NextGenEU-funded project “WIDE: Wellbeing In a Dematerialized Economy”, focusing on the socioeconomic aspects of prolonging product lifetime and on EU policies for material efficiency.

She holds a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences with a specialisation in Environmental Policy and Economics from Wageningen University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Markets and Institutions from University of Bologna.

Her main areas of expertise are circular economy, environmental justice and multidimensional inequality, with a focus on product lifetime extension, housing and urban socioeconomic and environmental inequalities.