Energy & Sustainability

Marla Geibel is part of the Energy & Sustainability and Mobility practice at the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), supporting CERRE members and European policy makers on energy and sustainability issues.

Before joining CERRE, Marla worked at an EU affairs consultancy in Brussels. She specialised in EU/EEA law and regulatory advocacy, with a particular focus on sustainability- and financial regulation. Earlier in her career, she worked as a Project Management Intern at the German Sustainable Development Implementation Agency (GIZ), as well as within the journalism sector.

Marla holds a BA in Communication- and Political Science from the University of Mainz, as well as an MSc. in International Relations from the University of Glasgow.

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. Michael is an elected Vice President (for Publications) of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE). He is a former external economic advisor to Ofgem.

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.

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 is a Professor at the University of Oslo, Head of the Department for Energy and Resources Law at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law,
Norway. She is a member of the Advisory Academic Group (AAG) to the International Bar Association (IBA), Section for Energy, Environment and
Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL), and Chair of the Board of the Norwegian Energy Law Association.

Dr. Kong Chyong is an applied energy economist and policy analyst with a strong background and more than fifteen years of experience in applications of economics and operational research methods to energy and climate policy questions. Kong’s research interests include economics and geopolitics of Russian natural gas exports, with a focus on Russo-Ukrainian bilateral relations and impacts on Europe and global gas markets. He also works on large-scale modelling of power markets, with a focus on low-carbon generation sources and integration of renewables.

Currently, Kong is a Senior Research Scholar with the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. Prior to joining Columbia University, Kong was a research associate with the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) based at the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Kong holds a PhD in Energy Economics and Policy (2011) and an MPhil in Technology Policy (2007) from the University of Cambridge. His PhD topic centered around Russia’s strategic natural gas export policy and Gazprom’s pipeline investment strategy.

Prior to his studies at Cambridge University, Kong was a researcher at the at the National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine.

Sean Ennis is Director of the Centre for Competition Policy and a Professor of Competition Policy at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia.

Previously, he was a Senior Economist in the Competition Division of the OECD. Prior to that, he has served as an Executive Director of the Competition Commission of Mauritius, as an Economist at the European Commission’s DG Competition and at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.

Over the years, Mr Ennis has published research studies and reports published by economic journals and submitted to the European Parliament, the G20, the OECD and the World Bank. He has co-authored reports for regulatory and government agencies in Australia, Greece, Mexico, Romania, the United Kingdom and the United States.

He received a BA (Hons) in Economics from King’s College, Cambridge and a PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

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 Professor of Economics at the University Paris-Panthéon-Assas, a Research Fellow at the Stockholm School of Economics and a DIW fellow in
Berlin. Her research interests include industrial organisation and behavioural economics, especially topics related to energy markets, anti-trust policy and
social innovation.

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, a Senior Member of Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), an associate at
Toulouse School of Economics, and a board member of the Benelux Association for Energy Economics (BAEE).