Andrea Paltrinieri is Associate Professor of Banking and Finance at the Department of Economics and Business Administration, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. He is natural gas analyst with 20 years’ experience for Natgasweather, Henry Hub wise, and Energy Working, TTF wise. He is part of the Enelyst consensus for natural gas storage estimates, Wall Street Journal and CNBC contributors on energy and macros. His fields of research are in banking and finance area, with a focus on commodities, sovereign wealth funds, Islamic finance and emerging markets. He is Associate Editor of Research of International Business and Finance and guest-editor of several other academic journals. He published, among the other journals, in Energy Economics, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, International Business Review, Journal of International Money and Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, International Review of Economics and Finance.