Ilaria Mazzocco

Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics
Ilaria Mazzocco

Ilaria Mazzocco is deputy director and senior fellow with the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She has over a decade of experience researching industrial policy, Chinese climate policy, and the intersection between the energy transition and economic and national security. Prior to joining CSIS, she led research on Chinese climate and energy policy for Macropolo, the Paulson Institute's think tank. She holds a PhD from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where her dissertation investigated Chinese industrial policy by focusing on electric vehicle promotion efforts and the role of local governments. She speaks Chinese and Italian.

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Indo-Pacific Forecast 2026

Please join the CSIS Geopolitics and Foreign Policy (GFP) Department's annual preview of political, economic, and security developments across the region.

Event — January 14, 2026

The Electric Vehicle Playbook for Emerging Markets

Emerging markets are becoming EV leaders with sales rising rapidly in the past two years. Governments are seeking to shape the future of the auto industry as they balance their EV adoption goals, industrial strategies, and reliance on China.

Digital Report by Ilaria Mazzocco and Ryan Featherston — October 22, 2025

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Experts React: U.S.-China Relations Heading into a Likely Summit

An audio version of “⁠Experts React: U.S.-China Relations Heading into a Likely Summit⁠,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Thomas J. Christensen, Jeannette Chu, Brian Hart, Scott Kennedy, Henrietta Levin, and Ilaria Mazzocco. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

Podcast Episode by Thomas J. Christensen, Jeannette Chu, Brian Hart, Scott Kennedy, Henrietta Levin, and Ilaria Mazzocco — October 6, 2025

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Experts React: U.S.-China Relations Heading into a Likely Summit

This collection of brief comments by several CSIS China experts reflects substantial anxieties about the state of U.S.-China relations and the potential downsides to possible agreements reached during a potential Trump-Xi meeting on the sidelines of APEC.

Commentary by Thomas J. Christensen, Jeannette Chu, Brian Hart, Scott Kennedy, Henrietta Levin, and Ilaria Mazzocco — October 6, 2025

Assessing China’s New Climate Commitments

Ilaria Mazzocco and Deborah Seligsohn unpack China’s newly announced 2035 climate goals, including emission cuts and renewable energy expansion, and implications for the United States and the rest of the world.

Critical Questions by Ilaria Mazzocco and Deborah Seligsohn — October 2, 2025

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Assessing China’s New Climate Commitments

An audio version of "⁠Assessing China’s New Climate Commitments⁠," a new critical questions by CSIS's Ilaria Mazzocco and Deborah Seligsohn. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

Podcast Episode by Ilaria Mazzocco and Deborah Seligsohn — October 2, 2025

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