Digitalisation of the Energy Sector: the Case for Data Sharing

Charley Clark is part of the Data and Decentralisation team for Ofgem, the UK Energy Regulator. His background is primarily in enforcement, compliance and counter fraud, and has worked in other data- and systems-driven areas of the UK Civil Service for four years. Prior to that, Charley was a detective for the MPS in London.

Giuseppe Colangelo is a Jean Monnet Professor of European Innovation Policy and an Associate Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Basilicata (Italy). He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Markets, Regulation and Law, and of Competition and Markets of Innovation at LUISS (Italy). He is a fellow of the Stanford Law School and University of Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF), the scientific coordinator of the Research Network for Digital Ecosystem, Economic Policy and Innovation (Deep-In), and an academic affiliate with the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).

He graduated in Law from LUISS, earned an LL.M. in Competition Law and Economics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (the Netherlands), and a Ph.D. in Law and Economics at LUISS.

His primary research interests are related to innovation policy, intellectual property, competition policy, market regulation, and economic analysis of law.

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.

With a background in energy economy and engineering, Quentin started working at EDF on long-term energy scenarios, which allowed him to identify the important role that EV flexibility will play to reach net zero.

After working on EDF’s Smartcharging and V2G strategy, Quentin joined EDF’s electric mobility division where he created different projects such as Flexitanie, the first regional V2G project in France and EVVE, which is about to become one of the biggest European V2G projects.

Recently, Quentin joined DREEV as Chief Marketing Strategy & Development Officer to accelerate the company’s development.

Enzo Ribagnac is an EU Public Policy Adviser, posted as a consultant in the EU Affairs Office of Huawei Technologies where is responsible for files concerning data governance, cloud, privacy, cybersecurity and trade.

Before joining Huawei, Enzo worked on trade and single market policies in a European institution, and also worked for the EU SME Centre in Beijing, helping European SMEs to export to the Chinese market and internationalize.

Enzo has a background in law, public policy and languages and attended different universities in Europe and Asia.

Mark van Stiphout is currently Deputy Head of Unit in DG Energy in the unit that is responsible for Research, Innovation, Competitiveness and Digitalisation, including support for energy research and innovation in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, and the Energy Union Competitiveness Progress Report.

Until the 1^st of November 2014 he was a member of the Cabinet of the Commissioner for Energy, Günther H. Oettinger, who he advised on nuclear energy and energy research, as well as smart grids, retail markets and the relations with Russia. This included for example the Commission’s work on nuclear safety and the trilateral negotiations with Russia and Ukraine on gas supply.

Before that he was assistant to the Director-General for Energy, and from 2006 to 2010 he was responsible for the liberalisation of the internal market for natural gas as Policy Officer in DG Energy in the Electricity and Gas Unit.

Previous roles include consultancy on renewable energy projects at Ecofys and market analyst at Cogas Energie.