Ettore Bompard is a Full Professor of Power Systems at the Energy Department of the Politecnico di Torino, where he obtained his Master and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.

In the sphere of academics, currently he is

• representative of Politecnico for activities supporting relations with local, national and European government bodies for Geopolitics and energy security.
• Scientific advisor as an expert, for Directorate B “Growth & Innovation” and Directorate C “Energy Transport & Climate” of the DG Joint Research Center of the European Commission
• Scientific director of the EST@EnergyCenter (Energy Security and Transition Laboratory)/PoliTo
• Responsible of the CLICC project for supporting cities involved in the EU Mission “Climate Neutral and Smart Cities” in defining and implementing the Climate City Contract, funds granted by the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation
• Co-director of the Energy Transition Modelling and Simulation Centre established in cooperation between Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Politecnico di Torino
• Fellow of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering

In 1999-2000, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), supported by a Fulbright grant for research and lecturing on "Assessment and analysis of congestion management in competitive electricity markets."

At the Politecnico, he has served as Deputy Director for International Relations at the Doctoral School and as Vice Dean for International Culture at the First School of Engineering.

He is the Scientific coordinator of many research projects in the framework of the Italian System Research on Power Systems, EU funded projects, Next Generation Infrastructure (Nl), NATO projects and bank originated foundations. He is coordinating research projects with industry in cooperation with Enel, Edison, State Grid Corporation of China, IREN.

Research interests include geopolitics of energy, electricity markets analysis and simulation, smart grids design and modelling, power system vulnerability assessment and security management, energy security, “science-based” support to policy decision making and data analytics applications to energy systems.

He is co-author of more than 250 papers on International/National journals and at international/national conferences.

He is Included in the “World's 2% Top Scientists” ranking of scientists developed by Stanford University

He has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the CSF Foundation since 2019.