Francesco Paolo Mongelli is Honorary Professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt and a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society, as well as a Fellow at the Competence and Transfer Center (CTC) at the House of Finance in Frankfurt. He spent several years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington before joining the European Central Bank in 1998, where he held key roles including Senior Adviser at the Climate Change Centre and Directorate General Monetary Policy, and Adviser in both DG Economics and DG Research. Mongelli holds a PhD in economics from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. His main research areas encompass the links between climate the economy and financial system, monetary policy decision-making and communication, the functioning of EMU, and the links between economic and institutional integration. His new research aims at understanding how we can address climate change and nature degradation, rising damages from climate hazards and inadequate adaptation: a new trilemma. Mongelli’s work has been published in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Climate Policies, the Journal of Common Market Studies, Integration and Trade, and the Journal of Economic Integration.