Smart consumers in the Internet of energy

Bruno Liebhaberg is Executive Chairman of the think tank Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) which he founded in 2010.

From 2018 to 2021, he was also the first Chairman of the European Union Observatory on the Online Platform Economy. He is also an Honorary Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles’ Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM ULB) where he taught from 1979 to 2018. Earlier in his career, he advised former European Commission President Jacques Delors on industry and R&D matters related to the completion of the EU Single Market.

He holds a Master’s in management sciences from SBS-EM ULB and a Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

¹Also representing B.LIEBHABERG S.A., Director General

²Member of the Strategic Committee

Monica Giulietti is Professor of Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School since 2023.

Before joining Nottingham, she worked at the Universities of Loughborough, Warwick, Aston and Exeter. Her research focuses on competition and regulation in wholesale and retail energy markets, energy consumers’ behaviour, fuel poverty, distribution networks and decentralised energy resources. 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 Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas (CRED) and Research Fellow at the Stockholm School of Economics (SITE). She is a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board DIW Berlin and a Member of the Scientific Committee Chair ETI LAB -Mines Paris (since 2022). She is involved in the university incubator AssasLab. She has held visiting positions at Purdue University, the University of California Energy Institute at Berkeley, and the National University of Singapore.

Her research investigates topics related to antitrust policy, industrial organization, and behavioral economics, with a particular focus on energy markets and social innovation. Her recent work includes empirical studies on cartel formation, information structure in electricity markets, and experimental studies of social entrepreneurs.

Manuel Sánchez Jiménez is Team Leader for Smart Grids at the European Commission’s DG ENER since April 2009. He launched the European Technology Platform ‘Smart Grids’ in 2006 and the European task force for ‘Smart Grids’ in 2009.

He contributes to key policy and regulatory issues related to the digitalisation of the energy sector and to the Market Design Initiative under the Clean Energy legislative package.

Prior to working at the European Commission, he served as the Director of the Plataforma Solar de Almería in the Spanish Ministry of Industry and Energy.

Professor Bert Willems, is a CERRE Research Fellow and a Professor of Economics at the Université catholique de Louvain where he studies and teaches energy management and environmental economics. He is affiliated with the Law and Economic Center at Tilburg University (TILEC), the Toulouse School of Economics and a board member of the Benelux Association for Energy Economics (BAEE).

Karim Anaya is a Senior Research Associate at the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG), University of Cambridge. She holds a Doctoral Degree in Energy Economics and Master’s Degree in Technology Policy from University of Cambridge, Judge Business School.

Karim has over 15 years’ experience working in the public utility regulatory arena with a focus on energy, telecommunications, and water. She has advised different organisations and companies such as the United Nations, World Bank, public utilities regulators, and energy companies.

Her most recent work relates to future electricity network regulation and local electricity markets. She has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

Alessio Borriello is Director of Strategic Development and Communication at Acquirente Unico.

Prior to this, he was the Head of Office Administration for the Under-Secretary at the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea. Previously, he worked as the Chief of National Institutional Relations and served as the Director of Planning & Control at ARERA, the Italian regulatory authority for electricity & gas.

He has held various advisory roles in institutional relations at HdP, Grandi Stazioni and Banca Intesa and served for three years as Spokesperson for the Italian Minister of Industry.

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

Vanessa Miler has 12+ years of experience in energy strategy, energy technology procurement, and investment in renewable energy and environmental projects in the USA & EMEA and energy access in emerging markets. 

She works as Renewable Energy & Sustainability Strategist at Microsoft.

Matteo Moraschi is a Senior Regulatory Affairs Analyst in Enel’s Brussels office.

Prior to this, he served as Deputy Project Manager for almost five years at Slovenské elektrárn, an electricity utility company based in Bratislava. Previously, he was a Project Engineer at EDF in France and worked for Enel’s Business Development team in Rome.

He holds a Masters’ Degree from the scientific-technological university Politecnico di Milano.

Rolf Riemenschneider is Head of Sector, Internet of Things at the European Commission’s DG CNECT.

Since 2015, he coordinates the focus area of Internet of Things as part of the cross-cutting activities in Horizon 2020 along with DG MOVE, DG AGRI and DG RTD, and contributes to the future strategy of the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI).

Prior to this, he managed the ICT activities of the Public-Private Partnership Factories of the Future (PPP FOF). Before joining the Commission in 2002, he served as an engineer for consulting and project management in the microsystems programme of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Science.

Dirk Vansintjan is the Co-founder and President of REScoop.eu, the European renewable energy cooperative federation, since 2013.

He is also the Co-founder and a board member of REScoop Vlaanderen, the Flemish federation for renewable energy cooperatives and the Co-founder and Vice-president of REScoop.be, the Belgian federation for renewable energy cooperatives.

He has also co-founded Molenforum-Vlaanderen, a federation of mill conservation societies in Flanders, as well as ODE-Vlaanderen and Ecopower, a renewable energy cooperative in Flanders.