Retail Energy Markets Under Stress

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.

Catherine Banet (PhD) is a 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).

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.

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 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.