Ben is working for Bruegel as an Affiliate Fellow in the field of Energy and Climate Policy. His work involves data-driven analysis to critique and inform European public policy, specifically in the area of the energy sector and its decarbonisation. Recent work has focussed on the implications of the ongoing energy crisis and policy options for responding. Other topics of interest include tools for stimulating industrial decarbonisation and the implications for new economic geography from the advent of new energy systems, particularly from hydrogen.

Acting Head of Unit ‘Net-zero industries’, of the European Commission’s Directorate General for the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. Prior to that Jacek Truszczynski worked on energy & financing matters within the energy and economic and financial affairs directorates general of the European Commission, and in the private sector.