This opening session will feature valuable insights from top-level policymakers and industry leaders into key questions on the transition, setting the stage for two days of in-depth exchanges on the most critical topics affecting the power sector and its partners. Theses questions include:
– Is the European policy framework on track to deliver a holistic response to the continent’s climate challenges?
This discussion aims to:
Affordability is key to ensure customer engagement in the energy transition and to make decarbonization a reality. In recent months, Europe has been experiencing rising wholesale electricity prices – predominantly caused by the increase of global natural gas prices. This, in turn, has led to consumer concerns and triggered political debate across the continent.
The electricity price surge has led to questions around the efficiency of the electricity market and whether some adjustments, improvements at wholesale and retail level are needed to make it fit for the energy transition.
This session will take stock of the state of play around electricity prices and market design at EU level and discuss how the power sector can actively contribute to this debate.
Digitalisation enables European power networks to become more connected, intelligent, efficient, reliable, and sustainable, while inevitably changing how we supply, purchase, and interact with electricity. Data collection and exchanges are growing exponentially, creating digital threats but also valuable opportunities for the power sector. Amid such a rapidly evolving context, this Power Talk will foster a discussion about the implications of Europe’s digital energy revolution, the new business models needed to make the best of it, and the policy frameworks required to facilitate these developments.
This workshop intends to explore:
We set out a vision in which protecting biodiversity and achieving ambitious climate and energy objectives go hand in hand. To tackle a multifaceted problem, we go beyond siloed thinking and reveal the best practices across Europe that bridge biodiversity, agriculture, funding, energy, data and economy.
Eurelectric’s landmark “Connecting the Dots” study identified that €375-€425 billion of investments are needed to make the distribution grids fit for purpose in an increasingly decarbonised, decentralised, and digitalised power system. While the study focused on investments needs and drivers, it remains open to which forms of investment can take place. DSOs, for instance, have a range of options to solve congestions – network tariff design, grid reconfiguration, tradition reinforcement, and flexibility procurement, among others. The feasibility and cost-effectiveness of each option shall be carefully considered and compared in the final investment’s decision.
The combination of changing climate conditions – including more frequent and intense extreme weather – and the growing importance of electricity in the clean energy transition, means that power sector resiliency is essential. The industry needs to boost resourcing to make power supplies more resilient to disruptions from weather, cyber attacks, and multi-factor events. Utilities, regulators, and policymakers will provide their insights on the future power system, the environment in which it will operate to identify critical resiliency and adaptation investments, and the creation of an associated regulatory framework.
The closing session will feature a discussion by industry leaders on the future of the sector, the challenges ahead, and the game-changing technologies at our disposal. Moderated by journalist Laura Shields, this concluding event will outline how the entire sector needs to raise its game in the race to clean energy and a net-zero future.
Kristian Ruby took over as Secretary General of Eurelectric, effective 1 January 2017. Prior to his appointment, he worked at WindEurope as part of the Executive Management team where, in his capacity as Chief Policy Officer, he was in charge of developing and implementing the political strategy of the association. Mr Ruby previously also held positions as assistant to the former European Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard and served, for a number of years, as a public servant in the Danish Ministries of Climate and Energy as well as Environment.
2021 – current time – Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine in charge of digital transformation and of the management of the corporate rights of Ukrainian state-owned transmission operators NEC “Ukrenergo” and “Gas TSO of Ukraine” LLC.
2020 – current time – Deputy Head of the Supervisory Board of JSC “Ukrposhta”.
2018-2021 – Director-General to Directorate for Digital Infrastructure on Transport, Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine.
His has Master’s degree with honours in Public Administration (MPA), Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Master’s degree with honours in International Law, Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Master’s degree in International Economy and Management, Vadim Hetman National Economic University of Kyiv.
MIM – Kyiv Business School (MBA)
2019-present: Commissioner for Energy
2019: Member of the Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament), Chairman of the Estonian Centre Party faction and Leader of the Estonian NATO Parliamentary Assembly Delegation
2016-2019: Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure
2007-2016: Member of the Riigikogu and Chairman of the Estonian Centre Party faction (as of 2009)
2003-2007: Secretary-General of the Estonian Centre Party
2003: Research Assistant, NATO Parliamentary Assembly
2001-2002: Advisor to the Mayor of Tallinn
1999: Advisor of Tallinn City Council
1998-1999: Consultant, European Documentation Centre of the University of Tartu
2003: Master’s degree in Political Science, University College London
2000: Degree in History, University of Tartu
Jean-Bernard Lévy was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EDF Group on November 26th, 2014.
From December 2012 to November 2014 he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Thales, a leading electronics and systems industrial group.
From 2002 to 2012, he was at Vivendi, a global communications and digital media company, based in Paris. He was Chief Operating Officer of Vivendi from 2002 to 2005, and CEO from 2005 to 2012.
From 1998 to 2002 he was Managing Partner, Corporate Finance at Oddo & Cie.
From 1995 to 1998 he was Chairman and CEO of Matra Communication.
Jean-Bernard Lévy was General Manager, Communications satellites of Matra Espace and then Matra Marconi Space from 1988 until 1993, when he became Chief of Staff to Gérard Longuet, the French Minister for Industry, Postal Services & Telecommunications and Foreign Trade.
From 1986 to 1988, he was Advisor to Gérard Longuet, the French Minister for Postal and Telecommunications Services.
Prior to taking up his role as Chief Executive Officer with GIIA in January 2020, Lawrence Slade worked with Energy UK since 2011, becoming Chief Executive in January 2015. He has been involved in the energy industry since the late 1990’s working in countries all over the world. Lawrence has been a member of the UK Government’s Committee on Fuel Poverty for 6 years, an Advisory Board member of Connected Kerb, a Board Trustee and Audit Committee member of the Money Advice Trust (who run the National Debtline and Business Debtline) and is also a Fellow of the Energy Institute
Mechthild Wörsdörfer is Deputy Director-General at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Energy (DG Energy), where she is in charge of the Coordination of the Just and Green Energy Transition since October 2021. She previously was a director responsible for sustainability, technology and outlooks at the International Energy Agency, from 2018 until September 2021. Before that, she held two director positions at DG Energy, in charge of renewables, research and innovation, energy efficiency (from
2017 to 2018) and for energy policy, international relations, legal aspects
and economic analysis (from 2014 to 2017) . Previously, Mrs Wörsdörfer was head of policy unit on the 2030 Energy and Climate Framework. Before that, she worked at DG Enterprise & Industry, now called DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW). From 1999 to 2004, she served in the Cabinet of Erkki Liikanen, European Commissioner for Enterprise Policy and Information Society. Mrs Wörsdörfer studied Economics at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Montpellier and completed her studies with a MA in European Economics at the Free University of Brussels.
Melissa is Accenture’s Global Lead for Renewables and Energy Transition Services with over 26 years in the utilities and energy industry. She has authored more than 40 papers and articles over the last 14 years and worked across North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Melissa has an MBA from North-western University and a BSc from the University of California at Berkeley. She served as Assistant Chair of Technology for the US National Petroleum Council study, Advancing Technology for America’s Transportation Future. She holds a patent for the “Real-time S-curves” tool that uses science and engineering drivers to estimate the cost evolution of nascent technologies. She is a Fellow of the U.K. Energy Institute and Chairs the Energy Institute’s Electricity Board. She is a member of National Grid ESO’s Technology Advisory Council. She is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and the Project Director for Accenture’s support and collaborations with the World Economic Forum on System Value, Industrial Clusters, Net Zero Carbon Cities, Hydrogen, and Managing Investments in the Clean Energy Transition in Emerging Economies.
Claire Waysand, Executive Vice President, in charge of Corporate Secretariat, Strategy, Research & Innovation and Communication.
Claire Waysand has spent most of her career working for the French government, and in particular headed the office of the Minister of Finance and Public Accounts. She was previously Deputy Director of the Prime Minister’s Office and Deputy Director General of the Treasury. Claire Waysand has represented France on the European Economic and Financial Committee and was a director of the European Investment Bank (EIB), and worked at the International Monetary Fund.
Claire Waysand joined ENGIE Group in October 2019 as Corporate Secretary. From February 24 to December 31, 2020, she was appointed Acting Chief Executive Officer and, together with Judith Hartmann and Paulo Almirante, was responsible for the operational management of the Group. She brings her in-depth knowledge of French, European and international economic and financial issues and her experience to the service of the Group’s strategy.
Claire Waysand is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and ENSAE, holds a Master of Science in Economics (London School of Economics) and a PhD in Economics (Paris X).
Matthias Rebellius was appointed to the Managing Board of Siemens AG and became the Chief Executive Officer for Siemens Smart Infrastructure on October 1, 2020. As managing board member, he is also responsible for Supply Chain Management, holds the role as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Siemens Switzerland and in addition assumed responsibility for Siemens India Ltd.
Between 2003 and 2012, Mr. Rebellius served in multiple leadership roles at Siemen Building Technologies, before starting his assignment as President and CEO of Region Americas in Illinois, USA in 2012. He returned to Switzerland in 2015 as CEO of Siemens’ Building Technologies Division and in April 2019 assumed the roles of Chief Operating Officer of Siemens Smart Infrastructure and CEO of Siemens Switzerland.
Today, Mr. Rebellius is also a member of the supervisory boards for Siemens Energy AG and Siemens Energy Management GmbH.
Peter is the Head of Network Utilities at Equitix, a leading global investor, developer, and long-term infrastructure fund manager. Equitix invests across the whole energy supply chain with over €4bn invested in renewable energy generation, transmission, distribution, energy storage and smart metering assets.
Peter is a member of the board of directors on a number of the corporate Network Utility businesses including Electricity North West, the UK electricity Distribution Network Operator that distributes 10% of the UK’s electricity to the homes and business across the North West. He is also a board sub-committee member across the investment portfolio managing energy risk, regulatory price controls and remuneration. Peter is also a fund manager on a number of Equitix’s funds including its £1bn Fund V and its first global infrastructure fund.
Peter is a highly experienced private equity investment professional with a long track record of originating, executing and managing operationally intensive infrastructure businesses. He has over 20 years’ investment experience in banking and equity investment. Prior to joining Equitix he spent 13 years at NIBC Bank as a founding partner of its European infrastructure fund. Peter has a BEng in Civil Engineering and an MSc in Property Development and Planning.
Paweł Cioch, Vice-President for Corporate Affairs PGE Group, member of the Management Board of the PKEE
Doctor of Law, manager and attorney-at-law specializing in providing legal services to commercial law companies and public finance sector entities. For many years, he provided legal services to corporations in the manufacturing, transport and construction industries, as well as local government units and organizational units of the State Treasury. Mr Cioch has experience in the implementation of corporate governance in joint-stock companies. Since 2007, the owner of the Law Firm of Attorney-at-Law – dr Paweł Cioch, and between 2016-2020 the Managing Partner of the law firm Cioch & Partnerzy. Between 2018-2020 he was the Legal Advisor of the Marshal of the Lublin Province.
In 2007-2015, assistant professor at the Department of Civil Procedure at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. He was also a lecturer at the College of Finance and Banking in Radom and the College of Entrepreneurship and Administration in Lublin in the field of securities law. Between 2013-2020 lecturer at the Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law in Lublin in the field of civil proceedings.
He also holds an MBA from Collegium Humanum and London Apsley Busienss School.
Wytse Kaastra leads Accenture’s Sustainability Services in Europe and is also the European Utilities lead. With approximately 26 years of experience in the Energy and Utilities arena he is an expert in the European energy sector. Experience ranges from strategic growth and transformation strategies as well as large scale execution & implementation programs across Europe. Projects spanning both the business side as well as the execution with digital, AI & cloud technologies.
Over the past couple of years much focus has been on Energy Transition related services such as Renewables, smart grids, eMobility, Green Hydrogen, Energy management, digital Decentralized & Decarbonized energy solutions and Flexibility services.
Prior to joining Accenture in 1997, Wytse started his career at ExxonMobil as an economist in the downstream area. Wytse holds a master degree in Economics from Wageningen University in The Netherlands.
Jesse Scott is Director of International Programmes at Agora Energiewende. She leads Agora’s work on the energy transition beyond Europe in major and emerging economies, including research projects, collaborations with country partner think tanks, and strategy. Before joining Agora in February 2019, Jesse worked at the International Energy Agency in Paris where she was a lead author of the Agency’s pathbreaking report on the opportunities and risks of digitalizing the energy system. Prior to that, she worked for fifteen years in Brussels on European Union energy and climate policy-making, including as Head of Climate and Environment for the electricity sector association Eurelectric and as organiser of cross-sector advocacy to strengthen the EU Emissions Trading System from 2011 to 2014. Jesse’s experience spans business, government, campaigning, law, and think tanks. She holds a degree and masters from Cambridge University and also studied in Italy at the European University Institute.
David Bryson has been Uniper’s Chief Operating Officer and Chief Sustainability Officer since November 2019. Combining the two roles reflects Uniper’s determination to tackle the climate challenge in an integrated way. David also heads the company’s hydrogen portfolio which is organized in a joint structure with its majority shareholder, Fortum.
A chartered engineer who spent 24 years developing as a leader and manager in the British Army, Bryson joined the energy industry more than 14 years ago. In various senior management positions at E.ON he helped develop an open-minded culture that was central to expanding the business’s operations, raising awareness of works-safety and driving business transformation through a dedicated focus of operational excellence to listen to the customer’s needs.
Since Uniper’s first days, Bryson has been responsible for its asset business’s international operations. As a long-term champion of diversity, he always sees both sides of the coin and considers the view of all stakeholders in his decision-making. These qualities led him to become a key figure in Uniper’s pursuit of more constructive conversations with sustainability-focused NGOs.
Gaia Stigliani is an energy strategy expert with 8 years’ experience advising clients across the energy value chain on the opportunities and risks of the energy transition. Before joining AFRY, she worked for KPMG UK, where she focused on net-zero and on the opportunities that it brings across the heat and transport sector.
Gaia has previous experience working for the Climate Policy Initiative, an international think tank, and has also trained as an economist specialising in policy impact assessments while working at Ecuity Consulting (Gemserv).
She has working experience on three continents: Europe, North America and Africa. Gaia holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Surrey and a master’s degree in Economics and International Financial Economics from the University of Warwick.
Vilislava is a Brussels-based Senior Researcher within Clean Economy, working across Place-Based Transitions and Climate-Neutral Energy Systems.
Her focus is on the EU level and key Member States, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe. Vilislava has previously worked as Energy Policy Advisor at Energy Systems Catapult, engaging with policy development on a variety of topics including energy system innovation, electricity market design, heat decarbonisation and local area energy planning.
As Vice-President strategy and business development since 2020, Charles is responsible for growing the thermal activities of ENGIE in Europe. This includes projects for new thermal powerplants, green and blue hydrogen production installations, carbon capture systems, large scale batteries and seawater desalination installations.
Previously he was active in the wholesale power and gas markets for Engie. As CEO of Engie Energy Marketing based in Houston from 2016 to 2020, he was responsible for the wholesale and risk management activities in North-America. He held a similar role for Italy from 2012 to 2016. From 2008 to 2012 he was in charge of the optimisation and energy price risk management of Engie’s generation and sales assets in Europe. He started his career in 1999 as a project manager in the global energy management entity, covering several projects linked to the energy markets deregulation.
Charles holds degrees in process engineering and business administration.
Laurent Segalen is a Franco-British banker specialised in Renewable Energy transactions. He is the founder of Megawatt-X, the London-based platform for investing in Wind and Solar assets, which he currently heads. Megawatt-X has listed more than 14GW of Wind and Solar transactions over the past 8 years.
His career spans over 25 years, from Director at PWC, Fund Manager at Natixis/Mirova to Managing Director Clean Commodities at Nomura. He was awarded Environmental Deal of the Year 2006 by Environmental Finance. Laurent Segalen is also Board Member of the PPA digital platform Zeigo.
Gerard Reid is a Co-founder and Partner at Alexa Capital. He is also a Fellow at the Institute of the Environment at the University of Minnesota and a ember of the World Economic Forum’s Future Energy Council.
He is focused on assisting people and organizations in the energy and mobility areas who are struggling to understand and come to terms with unpredictable and rapid change going on around them.
Gerard has developed a strong reputation as a leading global expert in the energy and mobility space. He is an avid blogger and author with a following of more than 150k across several platforms and he is the co-host to “REDEFINING ENERGY” podcast.
He has spent over fifteen years working in investment banking (equity research, fund management and corporate finance) with a focus on both the energy transition and the digital energy revolution the sector is going through. Prior to founding Alexa Capital, he was Managing Director and Head of European Cleantech Research at Jefferies & Co.
Gerard was an adjunct professor at Imperial College and a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.
He was born and raised in Dublin and received a Bachelor of Business Studies and Master of Arts as well as Higher Diploma in Education from Trinity College Dublin. Currently, he works in London and lives outside Berlin in a small village
Jorgo Chatzimarkakis has been working at Hydrogen Europe since 2016. Before he was Representative of Infineon Technologies in Brussels and Member of the European Parliament (2004– 2014) inter alia in the ITRE Committee (Industry, Technology, Research and Energy) where he could contribute to lay the cornerstone for the first and the second Joint Undertaking on hydrogen and fuel cells. In 2007 he was elected “MEP of the year” by his colleagues of the European Parliament in the category “Research and Innovation”. In 2015 he was appointed ambassador at large for Greece.
Mr Chatzimarkakis was born in Duisburg, Germany. He holds German and Greek nationality, a degree in political science from the Uiniversity of Bonn.
Wytse Kaastra leads Accenture’s Sustainability Services in Europe and is also the European Utilities lead. With approximately 26 years of experience in the Energy and Utilities arena he is an expert in the European energy sector. Experience ranges from strategic growth and transformation strategies as well as large scale execution & implementation programs across Europe. Projects spanning both the business side as well as the execution with digital, AI & cloud technologies.
Over the past couple of years much focus has been on Energy Transition related services such as Renewables, smart grids, eMobility, Green Hydrogen, Energy management, digital Decentralized & Decarbonized energy solutions and Flexibility services.
Prior to joining Accenture in 1997, Wytse started his career at ExxonMobil as an economist in the downstream area. Wytse holds a master degree in Economics from Wageningen University in The Netherlands.
Simone Mori has been the Enel Group’s Head of Europe since 2018. Prior to that, he covered several managerial positions within the Enel Group, having responsibility at Group level for regulation, antitrust, environmental and climate policies, innovation and carbon strategy. He has also worked in Human Resources and R&D.
He is currently a board member of Slovak Power Holding B.V. and a member of the Enel Foundation’s Scientific Committee. He has also served on the board of several companies belonging to the Enel Group, both in Italy and abroad.
In 2016, in his role as Chairman of the Italian electric energy association Assoelettrica, which represents conventional energy companies, he promoted its merger with AssoRinnovabili, the Renewable Energy Association. This merger, which led to the creation of the Elettricità Futura association in 2017, was the first example in Europe of integration among power operators from conventional and renewable sources. At Elettricità Futura he covered the position of Chairman until July 2020 and he is currently a member of the Executive Committee.
He is a member of the Europe Committee of Confindustria (the Italian business association) and till May 2021 he was a member also of the General Council of Confindustria. He has held various roles in other business associations, including Chairman of the Energy Committees of the business associations of Milan and Rome. He has also been a member of the Energy Committee of Confindustria and of the advisory group for Business Europe.
He is currently Italy board member of Eurelectric. He is also a member of the board of Bruegel and a member of CERRE (the Centre on Regulation in Europe). He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the EastWest European Institute. Previously, he was a Senior Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and a member of the General Assembly and the Executive Committee of OME (Observatoire Méditerranéen de l’Energie).
He lectures in Economics and Management of Energy Sources at LUISS Guido Carli Universities in Rome. He has a degree in Physics and an MBA. He is married with two children.
As Director General of BEUC, Monique represents 46 independent national consumer associations in 32 European countries, acting as a strong consumer voice in Brussels, ensuring that consumer interests are given weight in the development of policies and raising the visibility and effectiveness of the consumer movement through lobbying EU institutions and media contacts.
As a consumer expert and advocate, and on behalf of BEUC, Monique is a member of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance and of the Euro Retail Payments Board. She is a member of the European Commission’s Consumer Policy Advisory Group, High-Level Roundtable on the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability, and Structured Dialogue on Security of Medicines Supply. She is also a member of the Advisory Group on Noncommunicable Diseases of WHO- Region Europe. Previously, she was a member of the expert group on “Online Disinformation” (2018), the expert group on “trade agreements” (2018-2019), the EU High Level Forum for the Capital Market Union (2020) and sub-group on Artificial Intelligence, Connected Products and other new Challenges in Product Safety (2020). She was also Vice-Chair of the European Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundations (2017-2020).
In her capacity as BEUC Director General, Monique is currently EU Co-Chair of the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) a network of EU and US consumer organisations, and she also represents BEUC at Consumers International, the international consumer organisation.
Apart from championing consumers’ rights, Monique’s passions/challenges are her family & cooking for friends – including delicious veggie meals.
Christophe Gence-Creux joined the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators as the Head of the Electricity Department, on February 2011. He is responsible for the Agency’s electricity activities regarding network codes, infrastructure, system operation, grid connection market monitoring and adequacy.
Christophe holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Toulouse, where he used to teach Economics and Regulation. After a post-Doctorat at the Laval University in Quebec, where he continued his research on the Economic Regulation of network infrastructure industries. Christophe worked as an Economist consultant for the World Bank for the promotion of public-private partnerships in the financing of network infrastructures in the North-African and Middle-Eastern countries (MEDA) region.
From 2003 to 2011, he worked for the French Energy Regulatory Authority, CRE, where he was in charge of the market integration process with neighbouring countries, the well-functioning of the French balancing market and its opening-up to cross-border balancing trade and to the participation of demand-side response.
Ms Paula Pinho has been appointed as a Director for Just Transition, Consumers, Energy Efficiency and Innovation in the Directorate-General for Energy (ENER) in April 2021. Ms Pinho, a Portuguese national and lawyer by training, draws on her extensive knowledge of various EU policies and in particular EU energy policy, as well as on her leadership, management and negotiation skills towards her commitment to Europe’s clean and just energy transition. Since 2015, she has been Head of Unit in DG ENER, and acting Director between 2019 and 2020, in charge of energy strategy and coordination of energy policy in the context of the Green Deal and Recovery. She has been monitoring the implementation of the Energy Union and the ‘Clean Energy for all Europeans’ legislative package. From 2008 until 2015, she was a member of various Cabinets and notably of the one in charge of energy from 2010 until 2014. Prior to that, she worked in the Directorates-General for Trade and for Internal Market. She joined the Commission in 2000.
Lucy Craig is Senior Vice President and Director of Growth, Innovation and Digitalisation at DNV Energy Systems, where she is responsible for scaling new ventures, digitalization, innovation and technical governance across service areas covering the energy systems value chain from generation and production, transport, transmission and distribution to energy use. She directs Energy Systems’ strategy for innovation and growth in new technologies and processes, including top growth priorities such as hydrogen, digital assurance, solar and offshore wind. A top priority for Lucy is supporting DNV’s customers in accelerating the Energy Transition.
Through advisory, monitoring, verification, and certification services, DNV provides assurance to the entire energy value chain – across generation and production, transmission and distribution, and end use. DNV supports the operation of high-risk assets and systems, both physical and digital, in wind, solar PV, energy storage, hydrogen, oil & gas, synthetic fuels, power grids, and carbon capture and storage.
Prior to her current role, Lucy managed the region of Iberia and Latin America for DNV in Renewables Advisory. Lucy has 30 years’ experience in the renewables industry. She has a PhD in electrical power engineering and is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Engineering and Technology.
Gary began his career in 1997 and has more than 20 years of experience in electro-intensive businesses, leading teams and organizations. Prior to working at Schneider Electric he led large electrification projects at ABB. He joined Schneider in 2014, leading the global E-House business based in Singapore. In 2015, Head of the Regional Application Center APAC. Gary has been in his current position since January 2020 where he leads the strategic direction and customers of utilities, core to this is the empowerment of digitization and green sustainable energy. Gary has previously spent six years in the Royal Australian Air Force.
Manager and General Manager at Ormazabal Secondary Distribution Division.
Vincent Berrutto is the Head of Unit responsible for research, innovation, digitalisation, and competitiveness at the European Commission Directorate General for Energy (DG ENERGY). His Unit aims to support R&I in clean energy, foster digital energy services, and improve EU’s competitiveness, with the long-term goal to decarbonise Europe by 2050. Prior to this, he was heading the Unit in charge of energy efficiency at the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-size Enterprises (EASME). He also dealt earlier with clean energy issues in other services of the European Commission, as well as in the French government. He is a civil engineer with a MSc and a PhD in building science.
Naomi Chevillard works for SolarPower Europe as a Head of Regulatory Affairs. She coordinates SolarPower Europe’s Advocacy Committee and National Associations Committee, and follows the main European legislation related to renewable policy, including support schemes and grid integration of solar. She is in charge of industrial policy files, and coordinates SolarPower Europe’s European Solar Initiative. Prior to joining SolarPower Europe, Naomi Chevillard has worked for in the Directorate for European Affairs for the French TSO RTE in its Brussels office. She also worked in Paris for the SGAE, the European Affairs secretariat to the Prime Minister, as well as in the offshore wind sector, for Eoliennes en Mer, the consortium gathering ENGIE, EDPR and Caisse des Dépôts
Michel Fraisse hold a Master of Science from CPE engineering school (FRANCE) & a Master of Business Administration from the Pennsylvania State University (USA).
Michel has 30 years of experience dealing with the IT & Telecom power industry.
Before Joining Huawei in January 2016, Michel held a number of positions at Schneider Electric & Eltek.
Michel is currently Europe Vice President & CTO of Huawei Digital Power.
Bruce Douglas has been working in renewable energy for 20 years. He is currently the Director of Communications and Business at Eurelectric a member-led association based in Brussels representing the European electric utility sector.
Previously he was Deputy CEO of SolarPower Europe, Coordinator of the RE-Source Platform – the European alliance for corporate sourcing of renewable energy – and the Co-Chairman of the Global Solar Council (GSC), the representative body for the entire global solar PV sector at an international level, representing over 2000 solar companies around the world. Before that he was Chief Operating Officer at WindEurope for 10 years, founding Secretary General of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Managing Director of FLiDAR, an offshore wind company.
He has a Master degree in renewable energy systems technology and is fluent in English and French.
Joop is the Director of the RE-Source Platform. He has been working and living in Brussels since 2013, specialising in Europe’s energy and climate policies. Joop worked as a freelance correspondent, managed campaigns for climate NGOs and developed climate policies for European telecommunications operators. He also founded a think-tank and wrote six books.
Dr. Caroline Golin is Google’s Global Head of Energy Market Development and Policy. At Google,Caroline leads the team responsible for energy market policy and advocacy across Google’s global energy portfolio, with the goal of accelerating electricity system decarbonization everywhere Google operates. Caroline has worked in the clean energy industry for over fifteen years, having built two companies, and serving as a strategic consultant for many of the world’s largest clean energy firms, advocacy organizations, and elected officials.
Before joining Google, Caroline worked with US energy regulators at the local, state, and national level to create market solutions for the integration of renewable energy and the improved efficiency of the electric grid. She has a PhD and MSCE from Georgia Tech in Energy Economics and Policy and Environmental Engineering and has authored over 50 papers and testimonies on the topics of sustainability and clean energy.
Caroline’s passion for clean energy extends beyond work. For decades she has volunteered with local NGO partners in the Dominican Republic, India, and Thailand to create paired sustainable water and energy infrastructure solutions that provide economic empowerment opportunities for women of marginalized communities. She is a wife and a mom to four children, and spends any free time she has in her garden or behind her easel.
Sébastien is a business developer at ENGIE, developing new solutions and services for 24/7 sustainable power procurement. He leverages both ENGIE and his experience in energy procurement, risk management, digitalization and innovation to move the market towards a more transparent and sustainable energy procurement. He is based in Brussels, Belgium, and holds a degree in engineering from UCLouvain and an MBA from INSEAD.
Tom Brown is a professor for “Digital Transformation in Energy Systems” at the Technical University of Berlin. He researches cost-optimal pathways for the energy system, with a particular focus on revealing the trade-offs between energy resources, network expansion, flexibility and public acceptance of new infrastructure. He is also a strong supporter of openness and transparency in research data and software, with the goal to enable a vigorous public debate on the trade-offs necessary to reach climate neutrality. He is one of the lead developers of the widely-used open-source toolbox Python for Power System Analysis (PyPSA). Before joining TU Berlin in 2021, he led a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He did his BA and MMath at Cambridge University and his PhD at Queen Mary, University of London.
Constant is Programme Manager for Clean Energy at C40, a network of the world’s megacities taking bold climate action and leading the way towards a healthier and more sustainable future. In this role, he supports cities to plan and implement ambitious actions to decarbonise electricity and energy for heating and cooling, in line with their climate action plans. Before that, he held various roles focusing on power sector decarbonisation and sustainable urbanisation. As a campaign manager, he helped to double the number of global companies committing to 100% renewable power through The Climate Group’s RE100 initiative. He also worked as an analyst at CIFF – one of the world’s largest philanthropic organisations working on climate change. He started his career working for various French environmental public institutions after a Master in Public Affairs from Sciences po Paris and an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London.
A highly motivated leader, committed to delivering meaningful outcomes for our customers, colleagues and Business. Dedicated to fostering collaboration across the business to define and implement strategic opportunities for our customers and resolve complex business problems.
A demonstrated record of achievement in leading complex Technology projects, across business-critical platforms in the Financial Services industry. Highly competent in the adoption of Lean, Agile and Waterfall principles to lead cross functional teams in defining successful solutions and executing against those.
Extensive Product Owner experience in Retail and Business Products and Domestic and International Payments Services. Able to adapt rapidly to changing customer and business needs, with a focus on product and process optimisation and the delivery of sustainable outcomes.
Proven stakeholder management skills with the ability to manage conflict, priorities, and differing viewpoints. A track record of the creation of passionate, high performing teams that inspire collaboration across business lines.
Diana works as Advisor on Renewables and Lead on the 2030 Framework at Eurelectric, where she also provides policy input on the activities of the 24/7 RES-E Task Force, a joint initiative between Eurelectric and the RESource Platform. She is as well involved in driving the energy transition on the EU islands and contributing to defining an integrated approach to renewables deployment and biodiversity protection.
Kristian Ruby took over as Secretary General of Eurelectric, effective 1 January 2017. Prior to his appointment, he worked at WindEurope as part of the Executive Management team where, in his capacity as Chief Policy Officer, he was in charge of developing and implementing the political strategy of the association. Mr Ruby previously also held positions as assistant to the former European Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard and served, for a number of years, as a public servant in the Danish Ministries of Climate and Energy as well as Environment.
Born in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia on 11 March 1972
From 15 December 2021
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
January 2014 to December 2021
Executive Director and Managing Director of Agora Energiewende
2012 to 2013
Deputy Director of Agora Energiewende
2007 to 2012
Head of Division at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
2001 to 2006
Deputy Head of Division for International Climate Action and Personal Assistant to the State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
1996 to 2001
Research assistant at the interdisciplinary Institute for Environmental Economics at Heidelberg University and doctoral degree (Dr. rer. pol.), thesis: ‘Municipal Energy Policy’
1993 to1996
Degree in Economics and Political Science at Heidelberg University and the University of Cambridge (UK)
Kristian Ruby took over as Secretary General of Eurelectric, effective 1 January 2017. Prior to his appointment, he worked at WindEurope as part of the Executive Management team where, in his capacity as Chief Policy Officer, he was in charge of developing and implementing the political strategy of the association. Mr Ruby previously also held positions as assistant to the former European Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard and served, for a number of years, as a public servant in the Danish Ministries of Climate and Energy as well as Environment.
Jutta Paulus is a Member of the European Parliament for the Greens since 2019. She is a member of the committees on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI), Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and Transport (TRAN).
Paulus started her career as a pharmacist, co-founded an independent laboratory for the examination of chemical hazards, and worked in quality management. From 2017 to 2019, she was the regional co-president of the Rhineland-Palatinate Greens.
Jutta Paulus dedicated her political work to climate, energy and environmental challenges. She aims to achieve that the European Union takes effective action against climate change and that human beings, animals and nature are protected from destruction, pollution and poisoning.
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Starace joined the Enel Group in 2000, holding several senior executive positions including Head of Business Power (from July 2002 to October 2005) and Managing Director of the Market Division (from November 2005 to September 2008).
From 2008 to 2014, he served as Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Enel Green Power, the Group’s renewable power generation company and a leading player in the global renewables industry. In November 2010, he oversaw the initial public offering (IPO) of the company and its listing on the Milan and Madrid Stock Exchanges with a market capitalization of 8 billion euros.
At the start of his professional career, he managed the construction of power generation plants, first with the General Electric Group, then at the ABB Group, and subsequently at the Alstom Power Corporation, where he was Head of Gas Turbine Sales Worldwide.
Francesco Starace also gained considerable international professional experience by working in Egypt, Saudi
Arabia, Switzerland and the United States.
He served as a member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations’ Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) initiative from June 2014 until the dissolution of the Board in 2017 and in October 2020 he was appointed Chair of SEforALL’s Administrative Board, which aims to accelerate and deliver at scale the solutions needed to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy) by 2030.
From 2015 until 2021, he served as member of the Board of Directors of the United Nations’ Global Compact. From January 2016 until January 2018, he was co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Energy Utilities and Energy Technologies Community.
In October 2016, he was appointed to the position of co-Chair of the B20 Germany 2017 “Climate & Resource Efficiency” Task Force and in January 2020 he became co-Chair of the B20 Saudi Arabia 2020 “Energy, Sustainability and Climate” Task Force.
From June 2020 to December 2021, he was a member of the G20 Business Advisory Board for the Italian Presidency, which is led by The European House Ambrosetti.
From December 2020 to December 2021, he was appointed Chair of the B20 Italy 2021 ‘Energy & Resource Efficiency’ Task Force, the aim of which is to make practical and actionable policy recommendations for sustainable progress.
He served as President of Eurelectric, the European association for the electricity industry from 2017 until 2019. In September 2017, the European Commission made him a member of the “Multi-stakeholder Platform on the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in the EU”.
In September 2019, he became a member of the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty, on the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Since January 2020 he has been co-chair of the WEF “Net Zero Carbon Cities – Systemic Efficiency Initiative” and since January 2021 he has been co-chair of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance’s round table on “Renewable and Low-carbon Hydrogen Production.”
A graduate in Nuclear Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan, he is married and has two sons. He is a keen cyclist, a supporter of the A.S. Roma football club, and has a passion for poetry.
Miguel Stillwel de Andrade was born in 1976. Graduated with an M.Eng with Distinction in Mechanical Engineering in the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) and an MBA by MIT Sloan (Boston, USA).
He initiated his career at UBS Investment Bank in London, UK, where he worked primarily in Mergers and Acquisitions in various projects in European countries, including Portugal, as well as in Japan, Thailand and Brazil.
Miguel lived between 1994 and 2003 in Scotland, Italy, England, Portugal and the USA. In 2000, he joined EDP in the area of Strategy and Corporate Development / M & A and was the Director of this area between 2005 and 2009.
During this period Miguel coordinated and managed various M&A and capital market transactions for EDP, including the acquisition of several companies that gave rise to EDP Renewables, the acquisition of Hidrocantabrico, the different phases of EDP’s privatization, EDP’s share capital increase in 2004, EDP Energias do Brazil IPO in 2005 and EDP Renewables IPO in 2008.
He was a member of the Board of EDP Distribuição Energia from January 2009 to February 2012.
Miguel was also a non-executive Member of the Board of Directors of EDP Inovação, EDP Ventures, EDP Gas Distribution and Chairman of InovGrid ACE.
On 2012 he was appointed Chairman of EDP Comercial as well as Counselor-Delegate and Vice-Presidente of Hidroeléctrica del Cantabrico and Naturgas Energia. On 2014 he was appointed as Chairman of EDP Soluções Comerciais. He is currently a Director of FAE – Fórum de Administradores de Empresas.
He was appointed as a member of the Executive Board of EDP on 20 February 2012 and reappointed on 21 April 2015
Jochen Hauff combines over 25 years of international experience in renewable energy, corporate sustainability and energy policy work with an broad-based academic education and interests.
Joining BayWa r.e. in 2014, he implemented a restructuring program as interim Managing Director of three BayWa r.e. subsidiaries in the German solar wholesale market. Since 2015, he is in charge of Corporate Strategy and Energy Policy for BayWa r.e. group, defining the global Corporate Roadmap of BayWa r.e. and the implementation of many strategic initiatives. He became responsible for Corporate Sustainability in 2017, leading the implementation of a carbon reduction & compensation program, the definition of a sustainability framework “beyond carbon” as well as the definition of the ongoing ESG action plan. Jochen directs a diverse & global team across three continents and is also a member of the Investment Committee of BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures.
During his career as a management consultant for Kearney based out of Berlin and Warsaw, Jochen advised international utilities & industry players in strategic and organizational topics, mostly focused on energy. Since 2008, his work was fully focused on renewable energy & corporate sustainability. In this role, he managed the implementation of Kearney’s own “carbon pledge” to reach carbon emission reductions and full compensation by 2010, apart from advising clients on sustainability & renewable energy strategies.
Jochen serves as elected Vice President of SolarPowerEurope in Brussels since 2016 and is a faculty member of the Renewable Energy Management Executive education program at University of St. Gallen since its inception in 2011.
Jochen holds a master level degree in Economics from Tübingen University and a MSc in Environmental Science & Policy from Central European University, Budapest. He spent and academic exchange year at the University of Washington, Seattle and concluded Polish classes at University of Warsaw and University of Cracow.
Marianne is an internationally recognised leader in global conservation, climate and biodiversity with over 20 years’ experience in 4 different regions –North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe. Marianne leads The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Europe as a catalyst for global conservation impact, supporting and leveraging the vital work of TNC and partners across all regions and overseeing our conservation programmes within Europe. She is the Chair of the TNC UK Foundation Limited and Director of The Nature in Conservancy in Europe gGmbH. TNC Europe has offices in Berlin, Brussels, and London and engages with business leaders, governments, philanthropists and global change agents to support and accelerate public and private funding, public policy and large scale and lasting global conservation impact.
Marianne is a native of Norway and lives and works in Berlin. During her tenure with the organization, she established TNC’s first in-country presence in Baja California, Mexico, began new TNC country programs in Haiti and Cuba and was the first female regional director at TNC. Before joining the Conservancy, she worked as an international development consultant and operations manager of a manganese mining company in Panama and worked in the timber industry in Norway. She has a master’s degree as a Fulbright Scholar in Latin American Studies with concentration on political ecology.
Carolina Vereda works for Endesa in the regulatory affairs department since 2013. She is engaged in different topics such as flexibility markets, aggregation models, DSO retribution, network development plans and customers.
Carolina is involved in many Brussels activities related to DSO business. In 2018, she was elected Chair of the WG Business Models and Networks Customers at Eurelectric and currently she is co-chairing the WG Regulation and Network Customers. She also takes part in the joint TF Demand Side Flexibility in charge of developing the scope of the upcoming NC on flexibility.
Before that and for 3 years, she worked for Eurelectric as Policy Adviser for DSO-related issues.
She holds an industrial engineering degree and in 2020 she was selected by World Energy Council as part of the Future Energy Leaders program.
Sabine Crome is working as a Policy Officer in the “Internal Energy Market” unit at the Directorate General for Energy of the European Commission. Her main assignments relate to DSO regulation, demand side flexibility and electromobility.
Sabine Crome joined the European Commission in 2000. Previously to her current post, she worked in the Directorate General for Mobility and Transport and in the Directorate General for Competition in the field of State aid and merger control.
Dr Annegret Groebel is a Director of International Relations at the German Regulatory Authority for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA). Dr Groebel has worked for BNetzA since 1998.
She is CEER President since January 2019 and was Vice President of CEER since 2012. She also co-chairs the CEER Market Integration and Transparency (MIT) Working Group since 2013.
She is a member of the Board of Regulators of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER).
Dr Groebel has a PhD in Economics from the University of Mannheim, an M.A. (Master of European Administrative Management) from FH Bund (Bruehl) and a Diploma in Economics from the University of Heidelberg.
She has an excellent knowledge of the European regulatory framework for electronic communications as well as the regulatory framework for the internal energy market. She has experience in advising public authorities on regulatory reform and sector specific regulation and is actively involved in the work of the European Regulators Group (ERG) and of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC).
Apart from her professional duties, she has also been lecturing for a considerable time on different subjects in economics, finance, social policy, trade policy and European Integration, as well as on the regulatory framework in the German and European telecommunications and energy markets at different universities and vocational training academies in Germany, the FSR in Italy, and Switzerland.
Dr Groebel is the author of various publications in the field of telecommunications and energy regulation.
Stephen is an expert on changing energy markets, focusing on market design. Stephen has over twenty years’ experience in the energy business, specialising in the changing energy markets and the strategic response of commercial players. He led our global work on energy market design for many years, and is internationally recognised as an expert in energy market reform and the energy transition.
He is currently working on a series of innovation projects to deliver market designs for transmission-level stability services and reactive power, and at distribution level to create a secondary market for capacity rights. He contributes to the global and EU debates on appropriate markets for decarbonisation, flexibility, capacity, and network access. Stephen has led national programmes for market reform on several occasions, and has worked on electricity markets in around 30 countries.
He is an inspirational conference speaker and has published numerous papers on electricity market design and the energy transition.
Annika joined Vattenfall Distribution in 2006 as Marketing Manager. Since 2010 she is Managing Director for the Swedish distribution business and since 2015 also Business Area Manager for the electricity distribution operation in Vattenfall Group.
Annika represents Swedenergy in the industry association Eurelectric Distribution & Market Facilitation Committee and is a member of The Commission for Electrification, an advisory body chaired by the Swedish Minister for Infrastructure.
Before joining Vattenfall, Annika worked in both managerial and technical positions over her 20 years with IBM and holds an MBA from Henley Business School.
She is a frequent speaker in the Swedish energy sector and was awarded “Diversity Manager of the Year” in 2017 by the Swedish Management Magazine “Chef” and “Power Woman of the Year” in 2019 by the female energy industry network “Kraftkvinnorna” (Power Women).
Goran Hult is VP of Nuclear & Development at Fortum, Sweden.
Goran manages Fortum’s ownership in Swedish Nuclear companies and is also quite involved in public affairs in both Swedenergy and Eurelectric where he is chair of the Generation & Environment Committee.
A qualified mechanical engineer he has spent his entire working career in the energy business. Most of which has been as an employee at Fortum, but also a period as a consultant and another as a supplier. Within Fortum Goran has held several different positions including but not only leading the project and purchasing department in the heating business. He has been manager for Fortums Nordic Hydro fleet and also manager for the R&D in Sweden.
Arshad Mansoor is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), responsible for the institute’s operation and portfolio of R&D and demonstration programs. Mansoor has been with EPRI for 21 years and previously served as SVP of research and development, and VP of the Power Delivery and Utilization sector.
Mansoor holds five U.S. patents in power electronics and distributed energy resources. He is a senior member of IEEE, served as VP of the U.S. National Committee of CIGRE, and is a member of the board for the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) at UNC Charlotte.
He earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology; and a M.S. (1992) and doctorate (1994) in electrical engineering from the University of Texas in Austin. He completed the MIT Reactor Technology Course and the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.
As an energy thought leader, Arshad Mansoor has been widely quoted on related matters in both national and global press and has presented in various forums worldwide including board briefings. In addition, he has published numerous papers in journals and conference proceedings.
Dr. Christine Materazzi-Wagner is a graduated electrical engineer and working in the energy sector for more than 25 years. From 2011 on she is Director Electricity at E-Control. Since 2019 she chairs the regulator’s (ACER and CEER) Electricity Working Group tackling the regulatory issues of e.g. system operation, network development, market integration and adequacy.
Before joining E-Control, Christine covered engineering, development cooperation, research and management consulting tasks, also dealing with power generation, renewables and smart grids.
Cesar Alejandro Hernandez is the Head of the Renewable Integration and Secure Electricity Unit at the IEA. Mr Hernandez joined in 2017 to work in Electricity Market Design, Electrification and Power sector Decarbonisation strategies. Before he held the position in the Mexican Government as Managing Director for Analysis and Market Surveillance, where he participated in the design and implementation of the Power Sector Reform. Prior to this position, he was an advisor to the Finance Vice Minister in Mexico in energy and environmental issues. From 2007 to 2011 Mr Hernandez was Deputy Chief Economist, at Comisión Federal de Competencia, the Mexican Antitrust Authority. He holds a PhD in economics by the University of Toulouse in France, and a BA in Economics by the ITAM.
Dr Stephan Lechner, based in Luxembourg, is Director of Euratom Safeguards at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Energy. Mr Lechner also co-ordinates the policy activities for the European Commission on cybersecurity in the energy sector. Before this appointment to this position in July 2016, he was Director of the Institute for the Protection and the Security of the Citizen at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, for more than 8 years. Before this responsibility he held various management positions and spent more than 18 years in the hi-tech sector of private industries, at large international enterprises and at telecommunications operators. He managed international expert teams in Germany and in China and has more than 25 years of experience in collaborative European projects. Dr Lechner holds a degree in mathematics and computer sciences and a doctoral degree in cryptography.
Christina holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and International Relations from the University of the Peloponnese, an MA in Organisational Analysis and Behaviour from Lancaster University in the UK and she is currently a PhD candidate in Public Policies at the University of Piraeus. She is the European Affairs Director at Public Power Corporation S.A. heading the PPC’s office in Brussels. Prior to that, she worked in companies of Viohalco Group as Human Resources Director and in consulting companies as Coordinator and Networking Adviser of European projects (HORIZON 2020, EuropeAid, REC, AMIF, EU technical assistance). Christina speaks English, French, Bulgarian and Greek.
Laura Shields is the founder and MD of Red Thread EU, a Brussels-based communications agency specialising in media, presentation and message training. After graduating from Cambridge University in 2000, Laura started her career as a journalist at CNN and CNBC in London, specialising in European business news and US politics.
She moved to the BBC in 2004 where she initially worked as the Economics and Business Analyst and then as a producer for Radio 4’s World at One and PM programmes.
Laura now works as a communications trainer and panel moderator in Brussels. As a media trainer she opened the Brussels office of The Media Coach in 2008 before establishing Red Thread in July 2017. She has reported for Reuters TV from major EU Summits and written for Open Democracy, Huffington Post, Communication Director and Outsource Magazines.
Her communication clients include European Prime Ministers, European Commissioners, EU and US Ambassadors, European government ministers, MEPs, NATO, Microsoft, FedEx, Roche, Open Society Foundations, Novartis, Transport & the Environment, Bruegel, Transparency International and the European Women’s Lobby.
Kristian Ruby took over as Secretary General of Eurelectric, effective 1 January 2017. Prior to his appointment, he worked at WindEurope as part of the Executive Management team where, in his capacity as Chief Policy Officer, he was in charge of developing and implementing the political strategy of the association. Mr Ruby previously also held positions as assistant to the former European Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard and served, for a number of years, as a public servant in the Danish Ministries of Climate and Energy as well as Environment.
Miguel Stillwel de Andrade was born in 1976. Graduated with an M.Eng with Distinction in Mechanical Engineering in the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) and an MBA by MIT Sloan (Boston, USA).
He initiated his career at UBS Investment Bank in London, UK, where he worked primarily in Mergers and Acquisitions in various projects in European countries, including Portugal, as well as in Japan, Thailand and Brazil.
Miguel lived between 1994 and 2003 in Scotland, Italy, England, Portugal and the USA. In 2000, he joined EDP in the area of Strategy and Corporate Development / M & A and was the Director of this area between 2005 and 2009.
During this period Miguel coordinated and managed various M&A and capital market transactions for EDP, including the acquisition of several companies that gave rise to EDP Renewables, the acquisition of Hidrocantabrico, the different phases of EDP’s privatization, EDP’s share capital increase in 2004, EDP Energias do Brazil IPO in 2005 and EDP Renewables IPO in 2008.
He was a member of the Board of EDP Distribuição Energia from January 2009 to February 2012.
Miguel was also a non-executive Member of the Board of Directors of EDP Inovação, EDP Ventures, EDP Gas Distribution and Chairman of InovGrid ACE.
On 2012 he was appointed Chairman of EDP Comercial as well as Counselor-Delegate and Vice-Presidente of Hidroeléctrica del Cantabrico and Naturgas Energia. On 2014 he was appointed as Chairman of EDP Soluções Comerciais. He is currently a Director of FAE – Fórum de Administradores de Empresas.
He was appointed as a member of the Executive Board of EDP on 20 February 2012 and reappointed on 21 April 2015.
Maxim Timchenko – Chief Executive Officer of DTEK. Mr. Timchenko has headed the company since its foundation in 2005. Under his leadership, DTEK has evolved from a regional conventional energy company into Ukraine’s largest private investor as well as leading energy company. Under Mr. Timchenko’s leadership, DTEK is developing in line with global trends, introducing and leveraging innovations and new technologies. Additionally, he backs the idea of Ukraine becoming a decarbonization leader in Central and Eastern Europe and advocates for investments in clean and affordable energy, energy efficiency, and new technologies.
In 2020, Maxim Timchenko presented DTEK’s new Strategy 2030, based on ESG principles, as well as plans and actions for the company’s transformation into a modern digital enterprise. This would see the company advance as an innovative, environmentally-friendly and technologically advanced organisation, serving as the leading player in Ukraine’s new economy.
Maxim Timchenko started his career in 1999 at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he advanced from the position of consultant to senior auditor in just four years. Between 2002–2005, he worked as a senior manager at SCM. In this role, he supervised the work of SCM’s energy business until its spin-off into DTEK.
In 1997, Maxim Timchenko graduated with honours from Donetsk State Academy of Management, majoring in Production Management. He continued his education at the University of Manchester, where he obtained a diploma with honours and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economic and Social Studies.
Maxim Timchenko is a member of the Electricity Governors community, which brings together business leaders and partner organisations from the World Economic Forum. He is a member of the UN Global Compact Network Ukraine Supervisory Board, as well as a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). On numerous occasions, Mr. Timchenko has been recognised as Ukraine’s top executive by various business media and also among the top ten CEOs by Forbes Ukraine.
Hando Sutter has served as the CEO of Enefit since December 2014. Enefit is a company, which operates in the Baltic Sea electricity and gas markets and in the international fuel market.
Prior to this, Hando Sutter was the regional manager of Nord Pool Spot power exchange in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia. In addition, he has previously worked in the management teams of regional companies, such as US Invest, Olympic Entertainment Group, Tolaram Investments, ESS Group (renamed to G4S Estonia) and Eesti Talleks.
Mr Hando Sutter is a member of Eurelectric Board of Directors since March 2015. He also serves as a member of the Council of Estonian Employers’ Confederation and is heading the education working group there. In addition, Mr Sutter is a member of the Council of Estonian Health Trails Foundation.
Hando Sutter has graduated Tallinn University of Technology as mechanical engineer, and also completed MBA course in Estonian Business School.
Kristian Ruby took over as Secretary General of Eurelectric, effective 1 January 2017. Prior to his appointment, he worked at WindEurope as part of the Executive Management team where, in his capacity as Chief Policy Officer, he was in charge of developing and implementing the political strategy of the association. Mr Ruby previously also held positions as assistant to the former European Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard and served, for a number of years, as a public servant in the Danish Ministries of Climate and Energy as well as Environment.
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