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Michael GRUBB
Chief Economist
The Carbon Trust
Professor Michael Grubb is Chief Economist
at the UK Carbon Trust and Chairman of the
international research organization Climate
Strategies. He also a part time Senior Research Associate
at the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge University and
a visiting Professor at Imperial College London. He was
recently appointed to the UK Climate Change Committee,
established under the UK Climate Change Bill to advise
the government on future carbon budgets and to report
to Parliament on their implementation.
Jeff
STERBA
Chairman, President and CEO
PNM Resources, Inc.
Jeff Sterba, Chairman and CEO of PNM
Resources, is active in national energy
policy. Sterba leads PNM Resources
as a founding member of the US Climate Action
Partnership. He is previous chair of Edison Electric
Institute and of the Electric Power Research Institute.
He serves on the board of directors for the US
Chamber of Commerce.
Artur
RUNGE-METZGER
Head of Unit “Climate Strategy,
International Negotiation and Monitoring
of EU Action”, DG Environment
European Commission
Artur Runge-Metzger joined the European
Commission in 2003. During his career, he served
in the EC Delegations in Zimbabwe and Bosnia and
Herzegovina focusing on economic and development
cooperation, and at headquarters in Brussels covering
a range of developmental and environmental policy
issues, notably climate change.
Serge COLLE
Head of the BeLux Resources Practice
(Utilities, Chemicals, Natural Resources
and Energy companies)
Accenture
Serge Colle is a Partner in Accenture’s
Brussels Office. He is the head of the BeLux Resources
practice (Utilities, Chemicals, Natural Resources and
Energy companies) and has extensive experience
in the definition and implementation of large scale
transformation programmes in these industries.
 Jean-Pierre
HANSEN
CEO of Electrabel
Member of the Executive Committee
GDF SUEZ
Jean-Pierre HANSEN is Member of the
Executive Committee of the GDF SUEZ
Group. He is CEO of Electrabel, Chairman of the Board of
Fluxys, Director of ACEA, CNP and IFRI. He is Professor of
Economics at the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and at the
University of Leuven.
Owen
WILSON
Chairman of EURELECTRIC Environment and
Sustainable Development Policy Committee
Manager, Group Health,
Safety and
Environment
ESB
Owen Wilson leads ESB’s Group Health, Safety and
Environment function having previously held a number
of technical and management roles. He has contributed
to policy debates focusing in particular on pollution
control licensing, air emissions, climate change and
energy taxation. He is Chairman of the Environment
and Sustainable Development Policy Committee of
EURELECTRIC.
Professor
Pantelis CAPROS
Professor of Energy Economics
and Operation Research
National Technical University of Athens
Professor P. Capros is a Professor of Energy
Economics and Operation Research at the
National Technical University of Athens. He has widely
published and conducted research programmes in the
areas of Energy Modelling, Macroeconomics, Operations
Research and Mathematical Programming.
Christian
EGENHOFER
Senior Research Fellow
CEPS
Christian Egenhofer is a Senior Fellow
at the Brussels think tank Centre for
European Policy Studies (CEPS) and a
Visiting Professor at the College of Europe and the LUIS
University in Rome. His most recent books include Beyond
Bali: Strategic Issues of the Global Climate Change
Negotiations and Climate and Trade Policy (co-editor with
Carlo Carraro, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007).
William
S. KYTE, OBE
Chief Advisor,
International Climate Policy
EURELECTRIC
Senior Advisor, Climate Change
E.ON
Bill Kyte is Senior Advisor on Climate
Change at E.ON and a founder member and Honorary
President of the UK Emissions Trading Group.
He is also Chief Advisor, International Climate Policy at
EURELECTRIC. He was awarded an OBE by the Queen for
‘Services to the Environment in the Power Sector’.
Alan
SVOBODA
Executive Director Sales and Trading
CEZ GROUP
Alan Svoboda is the Executive Director for
Sales and Trading. Until March 2004, he
was a partner in McKinsey&Company, an
international consulting firm serving top management,
where he specialized in the energy, gas, and
petrochemical sectors. During 1998-99, he was the
Finance Director and Vice-Chairman of the Board of ZCE,
a.s. (regional power utility). Formerly, he worked for
Merrill Lynch in USA.
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Professor
Ronnie BELMANS
President of UIE
University of Leuven
Ronnie Belmans is a full time professor with
the K.U.Leuven, teaching electric power
and energy systems. He is guest professor
at Imperial College, London-UK. He is president of UIE.
Since June 2002 he is chairman of the board of directors
of ELIA, the Belgian transmission grid operator.
Professor
Paulus Agterberg
Director of Strategy
Alliander
Since 2002, Paulus Agterberg has worked for Nuon - the grid division now called Alliander.
As representative of Nuon he coordinated the change of the market model in the Netherlands.
Subsequently he was Program Manager for the unbundling process.
Currently, he is Director of Strategy and Innovation of Alliander N.V., the largest grid company in the Netherlands.
Per
HALLBERG
Chairman of EURELECTRIC WG on Smart
Grids/Network of the Future
Senior Advisor
Vattenfall European Affairs Office
Per Hallberg has more than 30 years
experience of the power sector, starting out in the 70s
in the nuclear sector. After having worked with market-and
M&A-issues for many years he was appointed as
Managing Director for Vattenfall Distribution AB in the
beginning of 2000. Since 2005 Per is a team-member of
Vattenfall European Affairs in Brussels.
Peter
BIRKNER
Chairman of EURELECTRIC
Networks
Committee
Managing Director of RWE Rhein-Ruhr
Netzservice GmbH
Peter Birkner is Managing Director, since
September 2008, of RWE Rhein-Ruhr Netzservice
GmbH, the biggest grid service company in Germany.
Prior positions include Board Member and Executive
Director of Vychodoslovenska Energetika a.s.,
Slovakia, and Vice-President and Executive Director,
“System Operation Unit”, at Lechwerke AG, Germany.
All three companies are members of the RWE group.
He is also Chairman of EURELECTRIC’s Networks
Committee and Visiting Professor at the Technical
University of Kosice, Slovakia.
Livio
GALLO
Chief Operating Officer of the Networks
and Infrastructures Division of Enel
President of Enel Distribuzione
Livio Gallo is the Chief Operating Officer
of the Networks and Infrastructures
Division of Enel and President of Enel Distribuzione,
the major Italian electric utility which supplies and
distributes electricity to over 31 million customers
in Italy.
Andreas
UMBACH
President & COO
Landis+Gyr AG
Chairman of Smart Metering Association
Andreas Umbach is currently the President
and COO of Landis+Gyr. He commenced his
career with Siemens in 1999.
Martin
CROUCH
Director of European Strategy
and Environment
Ofgem
Martin Crouch is Director of European
Strategy & Environment at Ofgem.
Prior to this he was Director of Electricity Distribution at
Ofgem & previously worked in the industry on a range of commercial, financial and regulatory issues.
Pier NABUURS
Chairman of Technology Platform
on Smart Grids
Chief Executive Officer of KEMA
In January 2002, Pier Nabuurs was appointed
CEO of KEMA, an international company
specialized in high-grade technical energy consultancy
and R&D , inspection, testing and certification. Until
April he was chairman of the Advisory Council for the
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