IAEE 2019 Ljubljana

PLENARY SPEAKERS' BIOGRAPHIES
(by alphabetical order of last name)

AMELA AJANOVIĆ

Amela Ajanović is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Energy Systems and Electrical Drives at Vienna University of Technology. She holds a degree in electrical engineering and a PhD in Energy Economics. Amela Ajanović has been guest researcher at the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) in Amsterdam and at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, as well as a guest lecturer at the Technical University of Prague. Furthermore, she has acted as a guest editor together with Carol Dahl and Lee Schipper, for a special issue of Energy Policy on “Modelling transport (energy) demand and policies". Amela Ajanović has been involved in many national and international research projects as a project partner, as well as a coordinator. She is responsible for project acquisition, project leading, scientific coordination and research activities. Her main area of interest is sustainable energy systems, with special focus on the transport sector: energy efficiency, energy policy, energy modelling, and scenario development. In these fields of research, she has published more than 20 papers in reviewed international journals.

GAŠPER ARTAČ

Dr. Gašper Artač is one of the leading expert in the fields of new business models in energy sector in Slovenia. He recived his doctorate (2013) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. At that time he devoted himself to research work in the field of demand response, active demand and distributed generation management. During the postgraduate studies he was, as a visiting researcher, a member of the Electricity Research Centre (ERC), University College Dublin. In the year 2013 until the end of 2016, he was employed by GEN-I, d.o.o. where he was responsible for development of analytical support for trading department. He is currently a head of the Energy Management Centre in Petrol d.d., Ljubljana, where he is responsible for the development of new business models in energy sector and green transformation, active demand & distributed generation management and the development of analytical support for trading and purchasing energy products. At the same time, he is also a senior research assistant at the Laboratory for Energy Strategy at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana.

HANS AUER

Hans Auer is an Associate Professor in Energy Economics at Vienna University of Technology. He received a MSc in Electrical Engineering (1996), a PhD (2000) and Venia Docendi (2012) in Energy Economics from the Vienna University of Technology. He has been on research leave several times, among others at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / UC-Berkeley in 1998. Since the beginning of his academic career, he has been focusing on various aspects of electricity market modelling and design, notably in the context of grid and market integration of renewable and storage technologies. In the last 20 years, he has been coordinating a series of European research projects in this field and contributing to many others as a scientific partner. In addition, he has been coordinating many other international and national projects in the renewable technology and policy field for a variety of public and private clients and associations. Hans Auer has comprehensive teaching, supervision and reviewing experience in academia, a significant amount of energy conference contributions worldwide and authored around 70 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book contributions.

CHRISTOPH BURGER

Christoph Burger is a senior lecturer at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin, Germany. Before joining ESMT, he worked five years in industry at Otto Versand and as vice president at the Bertelsmann Buch AG, five years at consulting practice Arthur D. Little, and five years as independent consultant focusing on private equity financing of SMEs. His research focus is in the energy sector/ innovation/ blockchain and decision making/ negotiation. He is co-author of the dena/ ESMT study on “blockchain in the energy transition”, the “ESMT Innovation Index – Electricity Supply Industry” and the book “The Decentralized Energy Revolution – Business Strategies for a New Paradigm”. Christoph directs and teaches in open enrolment programs decision making, blockchain, innovation as a corporate model, customized programs in the energy, banking industry as well as programs for international senior executives Christoph studied business administration at the University of Saarbrücken (Germany), the Hochschule St. Gallen (Switzerland), and economics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA).

PANTELIS CAPROS

Pantelis Capros is Professor of Energy Economics and Operational Research at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens and Head of the E3MLab (economy-energy-environment modelling laboratory) of the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems of National Technical University of Athens (ICCS/NTUA). He was the first President of the Energy Regulatory Authority of Greece (2000-2004), was a member of the Board of Directors of PPC for five years (1995-2000) and Professor of Economics at Sorbonne. As Head of E3MLab, he has built and used large-scale mathematical models for the Energy Markets, Environment, and General Economic Equilibrium, which are widely used internationally and are the models used in most of the European Commission's analysis of policies for energy, climate change, transport and economic development. He has many years of international experience as a business and government advisor in the field of Energy and Economic Policy. He has published more than 150 publications in international scientific journals. His research interests include mathematical economics, mathematical programming models, and energy and environmental economics.

EDWARD C. CHOW

Edward C. Chow, senior associate in the Energy and National Security Program at CSIS, is an international energy expert with 40 years of industry experience. He has worked in Asia, Middle East, Africa, South America, Europe, Russia, Black Sea and Caspian regions. He has developed government policy and business strategy, while advising governments, international financial institutions, major oil companies, and leading multinational corporations. He has negotiated successfully multibillion-dollar oil and gas agreements and specializes in investments in emerging economies. Chow spent 20 years with Chevron Corporation in headquarter and overseas assignments, including head of international external relations and country manager in China. Chow is a graduate of Ohio University with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in international affairs. He has published articles in leading academic and foreign policy journals on global energy developments, spoken on energy at international conferences, universities, and think tanks in the United States, Europe, Asia and South America, and appeared on major international media. He currently teaches at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

KAROLINA ČEGIR

Karolina Čegir is Gas expert at the Energy Community Secretariat in Vienna, with additional responsibility for Renewable Energy in transport sector. The Secretariat is an international institution established according to the Energy Community Treaty in order to monitor its fulfilment and, from the other hand, to support the Contracting Parties of the Energy Community in their efforts to implement EU acquis required by the Treaty. The main focus of her work is on natural gas while additional tasks are related to renewable energy in transport sector. The scope of work includes regular contacts with EU institutions, such as Gas Coordination Group, European Network Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG), Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE) and Concerted Action on Renewable Energy Sources Directive (CA-RES). From 1992 until 2001, she worked in INA, Gas Transmission Division (future Plinacro, gas TSO in Croatia) covering different positions in the field of the gas transmission - maintenance, supervision, dispatching centre, quality system, investment and development. After that, she worked in Plinacro, gas TSO in Croatia, where she covered different positions, the last being the Assistant to the Director of the Development Sector. Karolina Čegir holds a bachelor degree in Petroleum Engineering from Zagreb University (1990), and MSc degree in Renewables at the Technical University of Vienna (2013).

GEORG ERDMANN

Georg Erdmann was Professor for Energy Systems at the Institute for Energy Technology, Berlin University of Technology from 1995 until his retirement in 2018. Between 1982 and 1995, he was Post doc researcher and Assistant Professor at the Center for Economic Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich. During this time, he also was Delegate at the Paul Scherer Institute, Villigen (Switzerland). He is trained in Mathematics and Economics, and received his PhD in Economics at the University of Münster (Germany) in 1981. Georg Erdmann’s research fields cover energy economics including energy market modeling and forecasting, energy market reform, energy trade, investment strategies, financing and risk management, and market entry of new energy technologies such as fuel cells, battery electric vehicles, and other innovations. He has also research experience in industrial economics, environmental economics, evolutionary economics, and regional economics. He is author of several books and scientific articles. His latest book publication is an energy economics textbook (Energy Economics – Theory and Applications, with Prof. Dr. Peter Zweifel and Prof. Dr. Aaron Praktiknjo). He is founder of the company Prognoseforum GmbH which is active in economic forecasting and energy consulting. He is also President of the Board, KSB Energie AG, Berlin, which is engaged in providing energy-trading services for small and medium sized companies. Among many other mandates, he chairs the Gesellschaft für Energiewissenschaft und Energiepolitik, German affiliate of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE). In 2009 he served as President of the IAEE.

MASSIMO FILIPPINI

Massimo Filippini is a Full Professor in Economics and has a joint professorship at the ETH Zurich and the Università della Svizzera Italiana since October 1999. He is director of the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) at ETH Zürich, member of the Center for Economic Research at ETH Zurich (CER-ETH), coordinator of the network “Empirical Methods in Energy Economics” (EMEE) and a member of the board of Country Representatives of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). He has also been the President of the Swiss Association for Energy Economics (SAEE). He studied economics at the University of Zurich, where he also received his doctorate. Massimo Filippini has been a visiting scholar at MIT (Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change) and at the Harvard University (John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard) and visiting researcher at the Harvard University (Economics department), University of York (Centre for Health Economics), University of British Columbia (Center for Transportation Studies). Professor Filippini´s main fields of specialization are: energy economics and policy, behavioral economics, applied econometrics and public economics. His main areas of research are: the economics of energy efficiency, energy and development, empirical analysis of energy demand, regulation and deregulation of the energy markets, productivity and efficiency analysis of firms, as well as evaluation of energy policy instruments. Massimo Filippini is a member of several editorial boards and has published several books, book chapters, and more than 90 articles in top field and field peer-reviewed journals.

ATANAS GEORGIEV

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Atanas Georgiev is Vice-Dean, Head of Industrial Economics and Management Department, and Director of the MA program “Economics and Management in Energy, Infrastructure, and Utilities” at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. He is also publisher and Chief Editor of the “Utilities” magazine and Publics.bg. He is guest-lecturer at the Diplomatic Institute of the Bulgarian MFA and guest-author in many publications. Atanas attended specializations such as: IVLP/Global Energy Security (US State Dept.), “Generation Next” (Rossotrudnichestvo); “Pricing” and “Benchmarking” at the Public Utility Research Center (Florida, USA), “European Energy Law” at the Florence School of Regulation, etc. He is member of the IAEE and member of the management board at the National Committee of Bulgaria for the World Energy Council. He has been a consultant on restructuring in the energy sector at Uconomics Ltd. (2005-2009) and at Public Services Ltd.

ROBERT GOLOB

Robert Golob is one of the leading electricity experts in Slovenia. After receiving his doctoral degree, he was awarded a Fulbright grant for a visiting position at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. In 1997, he was employed as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Ljubljana, where today he is an associate professor. He has written numerous publications and papers on markets, the optimization of energy sources and electricity system planning. He has also managed several basic research and industry-applicable projects for the Slovenian energy sector. In 1998, Mr. Golob was appointed head of an EU negotiation team for the energy sector. A year later, he assumed the function of State Secretary for Energy Matters and helped draft several key acts in this area. In 2002, he founded and became the general manager of Istrabenz Gorenje, d.o.o. (now IGES). He took the helm of the company and the GEN-I Group in 2006 and in just over a decade, guided GEN-I from a local company to a global electricity trader. The company entered the Slovenian market as the first independent supplier of electricity and natural gas, and today holds a leading share of the household electricity market. The Group, comprising 17 subsidiaries, operates in 22 countries where it generates 78% of its revenues and enjoys a significant competitive advantage on account of its flexible approach and responsiveness. Its development focus is on green transformation, reducing the carbon footprint and ensuring a clean environment for future generations.

MARKUS GRAEBIG

Markus Graebig is the project director of the WindNODE consortium. “WindNODE – showcasing smart energy systems from northeastern Germany” is a consortium with more than 70 partners, working on model solutions for the system integration of large amounts of intermittent renewables. Previously, Markus Graebig worked as a business consultant with McKinsey & Company and as a research associate at Technische Universität Berlin, Department for Energy Systems, with Prof. Georg Erdmann. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering (TU Berlin) and an M.Phil. degree in Engineering for Sustainable Development (University of Cambridge).

RICHARD GREEN

Richard Green is Professor of Sustainable Energy Business and Head of the Department of Management at Imperial College London, UK. He was previously Professor of Energy Economics and Director of the Institute for Energy Research and Policy at the University of Birmingham, and Professor of Economics at the University of Hull. He started his career at the Department of Applied Economics and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He has spent time on secondment to the Office of Electricity Regulation and has held visiting appointments at the World Bank, the University of California Energy Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been studying the economics and regulation of the electricity industry for over 25 years. He has written extensively on market power in wholesale electricity markets and has also worked on transmission pricing. More recently, the main focus of his work has been on the impact of low-carbon generation (nuclear and renewables) and energy storage on the electricity market, and the business and policy implications of this. He was the 2016 Chair of the British Institute for Energy Economics.

REINHARD HAAS

Reinhard Haas is university professor of Energy Economics at Vienna University of Technology in Austria. He teaches Energy Economics, Regulation and Competition in Energy markets, and Energy Modelling. He is the Head of the Energy Economics Group, Institute of Energy Systems and Electric Drives, Vienna University of Technology His current research focus is on (i) evaluation and modelling of dissemination strategies for renewables; (ii) modelling paths towards sustainable energy systems; (iii) liberalisation vs regulation of energy markets; (iv) energy policy strategies. He works in these fields since more than 20 years and has published more than 60 papers in reviewed international journals. Moreover, he has coordinated and coordinates projects for Austrian institutions as well as the European Commission and the International Energy Agency.

FRANK JOTZO

Frank Jotzo is professor at the Australian National University's Crawford School of Public Policy, where he directs the Centre for Climate Economics and Policy external . He is also co-director of the Energy Transition Hub . As an environmental economist, his research focuses on policy relevant aspects of climate change and energy, and on development and economic reform. Frank Jotzo is joint editor-in-chief of the journal Climate Policy external and a Lead Author of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th and 6th Assessment Reports . He has been involved in a number of policy research and advisory exercises, as advisor to governments, and to international organisations. He tweets @frankjotzo.

REINHARD MADLENER

Reinhard Madlener is a Full Professor at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He studied commerce and finance as well as paedagogics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU Wien) and then also economics at the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna (IHS). He received his doctoral degree from WU Wien in the economics and social sciences (Dr. rer. soc. oec.), specializing in general economics, environmental economics, and statistics. Before taking up his position at RWTH Aachen University in 2007, he was the managing director of the Institute for Advanced Studies Carinthia (1999-2000), assistant professor at the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE), ETH Zurich (2001-2007), lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, University of Zurich (as of 2003), and senior researcher at the German Institute of Economic Research / DIW Berlin (2007). Among others, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), and the University of Warwick (Coventry, UK). Reinhard Madlener is one of five full professors at the E.ON Energy Research Center (E.ON ERC), established at RWTH Aachen University at the end of 2006, and is the director of the Institute for Future Energy Consumer Needs and Behavior (FCN), founded by himself in June 2007. He has conducted numerous (international) research projects with industrial participation. From December 2010 to April 2014, Reinhard Madlener was the RWTH director of JARA Energy and since May 2014 he has been the vice director. His research interests include energy economics, energy management, energy policy-making, energy consumer needs and behaviour, structural change in energy systems, economics of technical change / technology adoption, diffusion and transfer, investment & financing under uncertainty, risk management and portfolio optimization (energy issues), quantitative modelling and analysis / empirical and experimental economics.

TATIANA MITROVA

Tatiana Mitrova, PhD is Director of Energy Center, SKOLKOVO Business School. She is a Scientific advisor at the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ERI RAS), Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, Senior Visiting Research Fellow of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), Associate Research Fellow at Russia/NIS Center in Institut Francais des Relations Internationales (IFRI), and Distinguished Research Fellow at Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ).
Tatiana Mitrova has more than twenty years of experience in the analyses of the Russian and global energy markets, including production, transportation, demand, energy policy, pricing and market restructuring.
She is the Head of the annual “Global and Russian Energy Outlook up to 2040” project and Board Member of «Schlumberger NV».
Dr. Mitrova is a graduate of Moscow State University’s Economics Department. She is a visiting Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) Paris School of International Affairs.
She has more than 120 publications in scientific and business journals and four books.

MICHAEL POLLITT

Michael Pollitt is Professor of Business Economics and Director of the MPhil in Technology Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has particular interests in future regulation and future markets for electricity systems. He is an Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) and a joint academic director of the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE). Michael is a Fellow in Economics and Management at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Michael was external economic advisor to Ofgem from 2007 to 2011 and has advised the World Bank, the European Commission, the New Zealand Commerce Commission, as well as companies and regulatory agencies across Europe. He has published 11 books and over 80 refereed journal articles on efficiency analysis, energy policy and business ethics. He is a founding co-editor of the International Association of Energy Economists (IAEE)’s journal: Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy and a member of the Council of the IAEE.

DEJAN PARAVAN

Dr. Paravan is an established expert and active participant in the development of the European energy markets. He began his career in 1999 as a researcher at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana. During his studies, he gained valuable experience at the Siemens AG Institute in Erlangen, Germany, and Decision Systems International, a company based in Atlanta, USA. After receiving his doctoral degree, dr. Paravan started his journey at GEN-I as one of its initial team members. Since than he took several managerial positions with focus on developing electricity sales, marketing renewables, developing the aggregator function for demand response and other energy services.

Currently he is Chief innovation officer for the GEN-I Group, CEO of GEN-I ESCO d.o.o. in Slovenia, GEN-I Vienna GmbH in Austria and GEN-I Energia Srl. in Italy and Member of the Board of GEN-I Hrvatska d.o.o. in Croatia. Dr. Paravan is president of the study committee C5 (Electricity Markets and Regulation) at CIGRE, Slovenia.

ALBERTO POTOTSCHNIG

Alberto Pototschnig is the first Director of the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), established in 2010 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 713/2009. He was appointed in May 2010 and took office on 16 September 2010. Before joining the Agency, from January 2006 he was a Partner in Mercados EMI, a Madrid-based international consultancy specialising in the energy sector, where he served as CEO and Deputy Chairman. He previously worked at the Italian Transmission System Operator (from 2003 to 2005), served as first CEO of the Italian Electricity Market Operator (from 2000 to 2003) and in the Italian Energy Regulatory Authority (AEEG, from 1997 to 2000), with his final position being Director of Electricity Regulation. Alberto Pototschnig started his professional career in 1989 with London Economics, an international economic consultancy, where he was eventually in charge of the industrial economic advisory practice. Between 2003 and 2005 he acted as an adviser to the Italian Government on environmental policy issues. Since 2004, he is an adviser at the Florence School of Regulation, where he regularly teaches on energy regulation and market design. Alberto Pototschnig holds a Degree in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan and an MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics, University of London.

LUCIE ROUX

Lucie Roux is a senior writer covering LNG Atlantic at S&P Global Platts. Previously, she worked at ICIS Heren; her coverage focused on the Italian and Eastern European power and gas markets and on the EU gas regulations. From 2008 to 2012, she was a Research Associate at ESCP Europe Business School in London. There she has worked on several major research projects, with topics including accounting for sustainability in the UK, and energy issues including strategic risk management in European shale gas industry.

LAURENT SCHMITT

Laurent Schmitt is ENTSO-E’s Secretary General since January 2017. Before joining ENTSO-E, he was Global Smart Grid Strategy Leader at General Electric Grid Solutions. Laurent worked in Europe, the United States and Asia, first on power generation then on transmission and distribution specialising in smart grids solutions. Laurent is a member of strategic committees in CIGRE, IEC, EPRI and European Smart Cities Platform. He took part in expert task forces of the IEA and the European Commission. In 2015, he was named one of the most 40 influential people in the European Smart Grid by the Metering & Smart Energy International Magazine. Laurent is a French national. He graduated in Power System Engineering from Supélec in Paris and holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD, France.

MARÍA SICILIA

María Sicilia is the Chief Strategy Officer and a member of the Executive Management Board of ENAGAS, the owner and transmission system operator (TSO) of the Spanish gas network and a leading global gas infrastructure company, listed in the IBEX 35. Thus, she is responsible for the strategic planning of the company and market analysis. Previously, she has developed an extensive experience in the energy sector in top-level organizations, both in the public and private sectors: - She was Deputy Director-General for Energy Planning at the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism of the Government of Spain, and a Director of the Board of the Spanish agency for renewable energy and energy efficiency (IDAE). - Prior to that she was the Head of the Prospective Department at Iberdrola Renovables and a member of the governing body of the main renewable industry associations (GWEC, EWEA/WindEurope, REN-21 and Spanish Wind Energy Association). - She has also developed an important part of her professional career in the international area, specifically at the International Energy Agency (IEA) where she was the Leading Expert for Electricity Markets and at the UK Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem), where she worked as Regulatory Economist. - Previous positions as a Spanish senior civil servant include adviser to the Secretary of State for Energy at the Ministry of Economy and Energy Counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union in Brussels. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Spanish Energy Club and of leading international advisory councils of the energy industry such as the IEA Energy Business Council and the IEF Industry Advisory Board. Mrs. Sicilia is an economist and a lawyer by training, holds an MPA in Economic Policy from the London School of Economics (LSE) and an executive education certificate from the Harvard Business School.

MICHAELA VALENTOVÁ

Michaela Valentová is a researcher at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and affiliated researcher to the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on various aspects of energy efficiency and renewable energy policy, and specifically on evaluation of energy efficiency policy instruments. In her previous work as an energy efficiency policy analyst in SEVEn, The Energy Efficiency Center, she led and contributed to a number of international projects on energy efficiency policy, efficient appliances, energy services and Energy Performance Contracting. She also works as an external expert for the European Commission, the Joint Research Centre. Michaela studied for her MSc. at the Central European University, Budapest and holds her PhD. from the Czech Technical University in Prague.

GEORG ZACHMANN

Georg Zachmann external is a senior fellow at Bruegel an independent economic think tank based in Brussels. At Bruegel he has worked since 2009 on energy and climate policy. As a member of the German Advisory Group Georg advises governments in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Georgia on energy policy issues. Prior to Bruegel Georg worked at the German Ministry of Finance, the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin and the energy think tank LARSEN in Paris. Georg holds a doctoral degree in economics. Georg’s work recently focused on (regional) growth potential for the low carbon technologies sector.

PLENARY CHAIRS' BIOGRAPHIES
(by alphabetical order of last name)

KOSTAS ANDRIOSOPOULOS

Professor Dr. Kostas Andriosopoulos is the Executive Director of the Research Centre for Energy Management at ESCP Europe Business School where he holds the position of full Professor in Finance and Energy Economics. He is also the Academic Director of the full-time (MEM) and the Executive (EMEM) Masters in Energy Management. In addition to his academic profile he has an extensive professional experience in the business world.

Kostas is a member in various professional and academic associations. He is the founder and current Chairman of the Hellenic Association for Energy Economics (a think-tank focusing on issues related to energy, the environment and the economy), he is a board member of the Global Gas Center - World Energy Council as a Gas and LNG markets expert, and he also sits at the board of the International Association for Energy Economics as a Vice President for Publications. He is a founding board member of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society, and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. Moreover, he was a member of the Energy Commission of the Industry and Parliament Trust in the UK (2012-13). In March 2019, Kostas assumed the duties of President of the Energy Committee of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce.

HANS AUER

CHRISTOPHE BONNERY

Christophe Bonnery is President of the International Association for Energy Economics , IAEE ( www.iaee.org external ).
He is Vice President, Economics & Prospective, ENEDIS , the French power distribution company.
He is also President of the French Association for Energy Economics since 2009.
He created in 2012 the French Circle of Energy Economists, to promote energy economics to energy policy makers. He created the Marcel Boiteux Award in 2011, which recognizes the best French book on energy economics every year ( https://www.faee.fr/en/51-5GHf.html external ).
Recently he was Vice President, Energy Policy for the AREVA Group. His role consisted in understanding current energy policies and promoting acceptable evolutions for all stakeholders: Governments, industries, consumers, researchers. In this position, he developed an influencing expert network in various countries.
He was previously Vice President, Economic & Prospective Studies, AREVA. In this role, he headed a team of Senior Energy experts in charge of electricity markets, competitiveness assessments and all primary energies analyses.
He also serves as Project Manager for a program aiming to define potential synergies between nuclear and oil industries for heavy oil production.
He is member of the French Association of Petroleum Technicians/ Economic Section and of French Gas Association.
He was also member of the Executive Committee of the Center for Energy & Geopolitics Studies (Paris-Dauphine University).
Mr. Bonnery received his M.Sc in General Engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France, and MBA in Petroleum Economics and Management from the Center for Economics and Management, IFP School, Paris, France.
His former affiliations include: Head of the Economics Department, NUSYS consulting company, Paris, France; Commercial Director, International Division, SGN, Paris, France; Project-consultant, Shell, Paris, France; Research Assistant, Economic and Industrial Research Division, University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
He participated and organized more than 250 conferences and policymakers ’advisor contributing to national energy policies on resources assessments, power generation technologies, energy demand modelling, energy and poverty, market designs, energy tariffs, regulation, etc…
Christophe Bonnery has been awarded the Knighthood of the National Order of Merit.

REINHARD HAAS

ANDREAS LÖSCHEL

Andreas Löschel is the Chair for Energy and Resource Economics at the University of Münster, and currently a visiting researcher at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Since 2011 he has chaired the Expert Commission of the German Government to monitor the energy transformation.
Andreas Löschel also direct the Virtual Institute Smart Energy North Rhine-Westphalia (VISE). He is a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the Fifth and Sixth Assessment Report (2010-14, 2017-21), a Visiting Chair Professor at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing and a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).
His research interests include international environmental economics, in particular energy economics and the economics of climate change, experimental economic research and quantitative impact assessment of regulatory interventions using simulation models.
In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.) economist ranking he was among the 50 most influential economists in Germany several times.

CHRISTIAN VON HIRSCHHAUSEN

Christian von Hirschhausen is Professor of Economic and Infrastructure Policy (with tenure), at the Berlin University of Technology and Research Director at DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research). He received his PhD in Industrial Economics from École des mines de Paris in 1995. Since 2006 Christian von Hirschhausen is a Research Associate at the MIT Center for Environmental and Energy Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an Associate Researcher of the Electricity Policy Research Group at the University of Cambridge since 2008. His academic affiliations include also American Economic Association (AEA), European Economic Association (EEA), Verein für Socialpolitik (Ausschuss für Wirtschaftspolitik), Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE), European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), Gesellschaft für Energiewirtschaft und Energiepolitik (GEE) and Verband Deutscher Wirtschaftsingenieure (VWI). Christian von Hirschhausen's research interests include applied industrial economics, infrastructure and network economics, environmental, energy and resource economics and political economy. He has sectoral experience in energy (regulation and industry structure, electricity, natural gas, oil, coal renewable), transport (railways, highways, airports), and heavy industry (mining, steel, non-ferrous metals).

YUKARI NIWA YAMASHITA

Yukari Niwa Yamashita is a Board Member for the Institute of Energy Economics Japan (IEEJ) and Director in Charge of the Energy Data and Modelling Center. She is responsible for quantitative and qualitative analyses on energy policy issues. In the aftermath of the tsunami and nuclear incident, her team’s analyses and recommendations contributed greatly to the electricity saving campaign and continue to this day to contribute to the debate regarding a national energy mix for Japan. She has been serving as a member of various government councils and committees in the fields of energy and science & technologies. She has been leading miscellaneous international and regional programs in the area of energy cooperation through IEA, APEC, ERIA and IPEEC. She is an independent director, a board member of a Japanese oil company and a visiting professor at Kyushu University. She currently serves as President-elect of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) and is Japan’s ambassador for Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E).

JELENA ZORIĆ

Jelena Zorić is an Associate Professor in Economics at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She received her PhD in Economics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland in 2006. She is a research affiliate at the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics at ETH Zurich. Her main research interests lie in the area of efficiency and productivity analysis, energy efficiency, and regulation and liberalization of markets. She has also published a number of papers and was involved in several research and applied projects in these areas. Her teaching activity involves courses in Microeconomics, Industrial Organisation, Economics of Regulation and Energy Economics. She is a member of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) and Slovenian Association for Energy Economics (SAEE) and a member of editorial board of Economics and Business Review (EBR).

OPENING ADDRESSES
(by alphabetical order of last name)

CHRISTOPHE BONNERY

ALENKA BRATUŠEK

In 1994 she graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, and in 2006 she obtained her master’s degree at the Faculty of Social Sciences in the field of management of non-profit organisations. After working briefly in a small textile company, in 1995 she took employment at the Ministry of the Economy and collaborated in setting up a network for promoting small business. From 1999 to 2011 she worked at the Ministry of Finance. She was the Director General of the Budget Directorate at the Ministry of Finance from 2006. She was responsible for the national budget, the financing of local communities and drawing European funds. In 2007 and 2008 she collaborated in the preparations for Slovenia’s presidency of the European Union, and she headed the budget sub-group. In the early National Assembly elections of 2011 she was elected as a deputy, and in 2013 she was the first woman in the history of Slovenia to be appointed prime minister. She took charge of the Government at what was until that time the most difficult period for independent Slovenia. After a split in the party, she stepped down as prime minister in 2014, founded her own party and in the early National Assembly elections of 2014 she was again elected as a deputy. The party she has headed since its founding continued to be a parliamentary party in the National Assembly following the early elections of 2018.

Alenka Bratušek was appointed Minister of Infrastructure on 13 September 2018 by the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia.

MARJAN EBERLINC

Marjan Eberlinc is the General Manager at Plinovodi d.o.o. Mr. Eberlinc graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Ljubljana in 1976. After the completion of his studies, he has worked at the Rudis engineering company in leading positions in the field of energy projects at home and abroad. In January 2000, he became Technical Director at the company Geoplin. In 2003, he became Deputy General Manager and member of the Management Board. Since January 2005, when the company Geoplin founded a subsidiary company, which is the Slovenian natural gas transmission system operator, he has been General Manager of the company Plinovodi d.o.o. During this period, several key tasks were performed in strengthening the Slovenian gas transmission system: the construction of compressor stations, the doubling of the backbone of the entire gas pipeline system in Slovenia, the implementation of the second and third energy packages, and many other achievements. Since 2010, he is President of the Energy Industry Chamber of Slovenia; he is also a member of the Slovenian Committee at the World Energy Council, as well as a member of the Slovenian Chamber of Engineers and the International Gas Union. Mr Eberlinc is fluent in the English and German languages.

NEVENKA HROVATIN

Nevenka Hrovatin is Professor of Economics at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana (SEB LU). Since 2004 she has been leading the research group on “Sustainable competitiveness of the Slovenian economy in European and global perspectives” , financed by the Research Agency of the Republic of Slovenia. She serves as chair of the Human Resource Committee at the Faculty and as head of the Joint Master’s Programme for Public Sector and Environmental Economics organised in cooperation with the School of Economics and Business, University of Sarajevo. Her research work is focused on utilities (energy, telecommunications and water), public sector and lately on the energy efficiency (see Full Bibliography of Published Articles (COBISS) external ).
Currently she teaches several economic courses. She has also been working as a consultant to the Slovenian government, the municipal city of Ljubljana, the Slovenian electricity and gas regulator (Energy Agency) and several utilities. In 2018 – 2019 she is appointed member of the IAEE Council and (since 2016) Vice-President of SAEE (Slovenian Association for Energy Economics). From 2001 to 2006 she was Vice-Dean for International Relations at SEB LU and from 2011-2015 chair of the Academic Unit for Economics. She was also active as a member (chair) of supervisory boards of several Slovenian companies and institutions, including the Energy Council of the Slovenian Prime Minister (2009-2011).

METKA TEKAVČIČ

Prof. Metka Tekavčič was named Dean of the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana (FELU) in 2013. From 2001 to 2007 professor Tekavčič was Vice-Dean at the FELU. From 1999 to 2001 she was also the Head of the Academic Unit of Management and Organization.
Her research interest lies in the fields of cost and performance management, as well as non-profit and especially education management. Prof. Tekavčič has attended many international conferences, where she has presented papers from her research areas. She has published several research articles in Slovene, other European, and US peer-reviewed journals. She is a member of editorial boards in several prominent journals from her research field.
Prof. Tekavčič is president of the FELU’s Senate and the Head of the Institute for Management and Organization. In 2014 she was awarded the Artemida award for Women's Excellence in Management.
From 1992 till 2013 she was a member of the City Council of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has long been and remains a member of the supervisory boards of many important Slovenian companies and other institutions.
In 2016, Dean Tekavčič was appointed as a member of the EQUIS Accreditation Board, run by European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), the leading international network for management development. In 2019 she was also appointed to the Board of EFMD.
Since 2017, prof. Tekavčič has also served as a member of the AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) Initial Accreditation Committee and a member the and European Advisory Council (EAC).

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