Energy & Climate

Máximo Miccinilli* was Director, Energy & Climate at the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), leading the think tank’s research and activities related to energy and climate.

He was previously leading the public affairs and communications activities of European Aluminium where he managed international campaigns on energy and climate matters. 

Prior to this, he was a manager in the energy and climate practice at Burson-Marsteller Brussels (now BCW), a leading global PA and PR agency. 

Earlier in his career, he worked for the Italian Ministry of European Affairs and the European Commission on single market and external policies. 

He holds a MA in European Law from the College of Europe (Bruges) and a MBA in Business and Finances from the Solvay Business School (Brussels).

*Representing One Policy Lab SRL

Michael Pollitt is Professor of Business Economics at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is an Assistant Director of the university’s Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) and a Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics and Management at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

He is a former external economic advisor to Ofgem. He is a member of the editorial board of the Review of Industrial Organization, Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, Utilities Policy and The Energy Journal. He was a founding co-editor of Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy.

His research interests include productivity analysis, measurement of economic reform impacts and future electricity and carbon market design and regulation.

Michael has a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.

Professor Nils-Henrik von der Fehr is Head of the Economics Department at the University of Oslo.

In addition to numerous academic positions, Nils-Henrik is a member of the European Energy Institute, and served as a Member of the Dutch Electricity Market Surveillance Committee.

His research interests include microeconomics, industrial economics, regulation and competition policy.

He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oslo.

Friðrik Már Baldursson is a CERRE Research Fellow and Professor of Economics at the Reykjavik University Business School where he formerly served as the Dean.

He has extensive experience of economic analysis from a decade of service as Head of Economic Research and Managing Director at the National Economic Institute of Iceland as well as from various consultancy projects.

He has been active in public service in various roles, including the Supervisory Board of the Central Bank of Iceland. In October 2008, he led negotiations with the IMF on Iceland’s behalf.

Prof. Baldursson holds a PhD in Applied Statistics and Probability from Columbia University as well as an MSc in Economics.

Catherine Banet (PhD) is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, Norway.

Her fields of expertise include energy law, environmental law, competition law and EU/EEA law. Her research focuses on renewable energy, support schemes and alternative financing models, energy market design, energy infrastructures regulation, climate change mitigation measures, including carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Chi Kong Chyong is a Research Associate at the Judge Business School and Director of the Energy Policy Forum, University of Cambridge. His research interests include energy markets modelling, and particularly equilibrium modelling of natural gas markets.

He holds a PhD in Energy Economics and Policy from the Cambridge Judge Business School and an MPhil in Technology Policy from Cambridge.

Before coming to Cambridge, he worked as a researcher at the National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine. Since completing his PhD, Kong has been a research associate at EPRG working mostly on natural gas market modelling and Eurasian gas trade relations as well as on energy infrastructure investment.

Patrice Geoffron holds a PhD in industrial organisation and is Professor of Economics at Paris-Dauphine University since 2002.

Patrice used to be the international Vice-President of Paris-Dauphine and now heads the research centre in Energy and Climate Change Economics. Previously, he was also partner of an ICT consulting firm.

His research deals with the convergence between electricity and telecommunications in the transition to low-carbon energy, with a special focus on the development of smart cities, smart electricity grids, and the emergence of new organisations and new business models, with a recent focus on blockchain. In 2018, he joined the world council of the International Association of Energy Economics.

He is a co-editor of the journal ‘Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment’ and a member of the editorial board of the ‘International Journal of Management and Network Economics’.

Patrice was a visiting professor at various foreign institutions including Bocconi University (Milan), Fudan University (Shanghai), University of Tokyo (Todai), Saint Joseph University (Beirut), University of Pittsburg, KAPSARC (Riyad).

Monica Giulietti is a CERRE Research Fellow and Professor of Microeconomics at the University of Loughborough’s School of Business and Economics, where she heads the Economics Discipline Group focusing primarily of energy economics and regulation.

Previously, she worked at the universities of Warwick, Nottingham, Aston and Exeter. Throughout her career, she has frequently published in international journals and conducted research work for several governmental institutions and organisations.

Chloé Le Coq is a CERRE Research Fellow and Professor of Economics at the University Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas and at the Stockholm School of Economics (SITE).

Her research interests include industrial organisation and behavioural economics, especially topics related to energy markets, anti-trust policy and social innovation.

She has held visiting positions at the University of Purdue, at the University of California Berkeley Energy Institute and at the National Singapore University.

Professor Bert Willems, a Belgian national, is a CERRE Research Fellow and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Tilburg.

He is also a Research Fellow of the CentER for Economic Research, Tilburg University, and a Senior Member of Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC). He is also vice-chairman of the Benelux Association for Energy Economics (BAEE). 

Bert holds a MSc in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Economics from the KU Leuven.