Head, Development and Investment, Central Asia and Russia, MASDAR

Mr Abdulla Zayed has been Masdar’s Head of Business Development and Investment for CIS, Russia and Africa for several years, and possesses extensive experience developing renewable energy projects from the origination phase to financial close, in challenging and complex g...

Coordinator of the Regulatory Energy Transition Accelerator (RETA), International Energy Agency

Andrew Flagg is the Coordinator of the Regulatory Energy Transition Accelerator (RETA), working as an external consultant to the International Energy Agency, as the host of the RETA Administrator. Before starting this role Andrew led the work on the COP26 climate change conference for Great Brita...

Head of the Regional Representation of the European Investment Bank for the South Caucasus.

Maciej Czura joined the European Investment Bank in 2011 where he has been working in the lending, monitoring, and restructuring departments. In the period 2014 - 2018 he was responsible for SME lending operations in the Eastern Neighbourhood (Armenia, Georgia) and in the MENA (Israel, Palestinia...

Katharina Bryan is working as Head of Private Office of a Member of the European Court of Auditors (ECA) in Luxembourg, developing and supervising strategy, audit work and stakeholder engagement. During her 12 years at the ECA, she focused on the area of sustainability, climate...

Managing Consultant

DNV Energy Systems

Konstantin Petrov is an energy economist and engineer with a major focus in the area of economic regulation, market/industry design and applied modelling. At DNV Energy Systems he is managing consultant in the Market and Regulation Team. He has worked on multiple assignments in more than 40 count...

Auditor General at State Audit Office of Latvia

Before assuming his office at the State Audit Office, Mr Irklis was the Chair of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) of the Republic of Latvia and a PUC Commissioner. He also served as Vice-Chair of Board of Regulators at Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) and Vice-President of ...

European Affairs Director at Enedis

Mr. Rémy Garaude-Verdier is the European Affairs Director at Enedis, the French electric DSO managing the largest distribution network in Europe. From the time he joined the company in 2011, he coordinated and participated in several smart grid projects, developing a sou...

Director of International Relations, Austrian Energy Regulatory Authority E-control

Mr. Preinstorfer can draw on extensive professional experience in the international energy arena. He concluded his university career with a master’s degree from renowned Karl-Franzens University in Graz and immediately started to work at the Austrian Parliament, where he ...

Renewable Energy Expert, Energy Community Secretariat

Ms. Naida Taso has ten years of international experience in areas of renewable energy, sustainable development, energy modelling and electricity markets. Currently working in the Energy Community Secretariat as Renewable Energy Expert within the European Green Deal Unit, Naida ...

ERRA Presidium Member; Commissioner

Energy and Water Services Regulatory Commission (ERC)

North Macedonia

Andrijana Nelkova Chuchuk was elected as Commissioner at the Energy and Water Services Regulatory Commission of the Republic of North Macedonia in August 2019. Previously she was a Deputy Head of Economic Department at the ERC. She has 15 years’ experience in energy regulati...

Commissioner, CRE

Mr. Lastelle is in charge of the European affairs and Prospective Committee set up by CRE (the French energy regulatory commission) in 2017. His focus is on personal data and European affairs. He is Vice-President of the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) and representative of the Frenc...

Regulatory Specialist

Energy Regulators Regional Association (ERRA)

Ardian is a regulatory reform specialist with 13+ years of experience in energy sector regulation, specializing in energy policy reform, economic regulation of regulated infrastructure, electricity tariffs and renewable energy support schemes. As a regulatory consultant and a tari...

Mr. Sebastian Molineus is the World Bank Regional Director for the South Caucasus since July 1, 2019, where he is responsible for developing the World Bank’s country strategies, managing the portfolio of ...

ERRA Vice-Chair; Vice-President for International Affairs

Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority (MEKH)

Hungary

Prior to his involvement in the Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority, Mr. Pál Ságvári was the special envoy for energy security of Hungary between 2016 and 2020 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Earlier, he had worked  as the director for ...

Harald Proidl is Director for Renewables and Energy Efficiency with the Austrian regulator E-Control. He holds a Master’s degree and a PhD in Economics. Before Harald Proidl joined E-Control, he was a research fellow at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz and senior expert for RES and EE...