The Energy Crisis & Wholesale Electricity Markets

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.

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.

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).

Albéric Mongrenier heads up the Energy & Sustainability and Mobility practice at the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), working with the CERRE members and European policymakers on sustainability issues across the board.

Before joining CERRE, Albéric worked in an international consulting firm, where he specialised in global public affairs programmes and campaigns across a wide range of sectors and countries. Prior to that, he spent several years in the Middle East and Central Asia working in economic intelligence, as a journalist and as an independent advisor in the energy sector.

A French national, Albéric studied energy and defence policy at Sciences Po, Paris, and MGIMO University, Russia.