Flexibility in the Energy Sector
27 May 2025
Anna Rita Bennato
Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Economics
Loughborough Business School
Loughborough Business School
Anna Rita Bennato is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Economics at Loughborough Business School and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia. She spent three years there as an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, investigating the strategic behaviour of firms in response to government interventions and market regulations. Anna Rita completed her PhD studies at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
More recently, Anna Rita has expanded her research into behavioural and experimental economics to explore the drivers of individual decision-making, including social preferences, cooperative and competitive strategies, and cognitive discrimination. Her work combines theoretical modelling with empirical methods to examine how individual and firm-level behaviours influence broader societal outcomes. Her primary research focuses on the pharmaceutical and energy sectors. In 2024, together with a multidisciplinary team of scholars, she was awarded a major EPSRC research grant to establish the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience, in which she serves as a Co-Investigator.
