Climate and Energy Summit 2025

Krzysztof Bolesta is Secretary of State at the Polish Ministry of Climate and Environment, having previously worked at the European Commission. From 2000 to 2004, he supported the accession negotiations and Poland’s adaptation to EU requirements in the areas of energy and research and development. He was formerly a member of the political cabinet of two Polish Ministers of the Environment and a member of the supervisory board of the provincial branch of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management. He was involved in the negotiation regarding the second European energy and climate change package. From 2016 to 2018, he was a Research Director at the Policy Insight think tank, and co-founded the Foundation for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles, where he served as Vice-President from 2018 to 2020.

Michele Bologna is Head of Regulatory, Antitrust and European Institutional Affairs at Enel Group since May 2021. He was previously Head of Communications at Enel Green Power and Vice Chairman of the Board of Slovenské elektrárne a.s. since 2016. He held managerial positions at Slovenské elektrárne (2006-2016) and served as General Manager/1st Vice President of the Italian Slovak Chamber of Commerce (2004-2006). He graduated with honors in International and Diplomatic Science from the University of Trieste, completed two post-graduate master’s, and an Executive MBA at London Business School and Columbia University. He is knight of the Star of Solidarity Order (2008).

Beatriz Corredor Sierra currently serves as Chairwoman of Redeia. A legal expert and senior public official, Corredor Sierra has held prominent roles in Spanish public administration, including minister of Housing, secretary of State for Housing and Urban Projects, and president of the Board of Directors of the Public Land Entity (SEPES). She is a member of the EIB Group Women Climate Leaders Network. She has also served as a Madrid City councillor and member of the Congress of Deputies. Corredor Sierra is Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the Reina Sofia Museum and advises several organisations promoting gender equality and sustainability. She is active in academia and has received multiple national distinctions for her public service.

Laura Cozzi was appointed the International Energy Agency’s Director of Sustainability, Technology and Outlooks in 2023. She leads and co-ordinates the IEA’s work on energy sustainability, encompassing energy technology policy and climate change. She is also the Agency’s Chief Energy Modeller and in this capacity co-leads the World Energy Outlook, the IEA’s flagship publication series. Ms Cozzi joined the IEA in 1999 as a junior analyst in the World Energy Outlook team. She has co-led many editions of the Outlook and led multiple special reports. Prior to joining the IEA, Ms Cozzi worked for the Italian energy company ENI S.p.A. She holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Polytechnic Milan and a Master’s degree in Energy and Environmental Economics from Eni Corporate University. Ms Cozzi was awarded an Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Cavaliere dell’ordine al merito della repubblica italiana) in 2025 and she was elected as a member of the National Academy of Technologies of France in 2024. She has also received honorary doctorates from Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology and from the Polytechnic University of Milan.

Adam is a sustainability leader with over 19 years of experience in driving positive transformational change for some of the world’s most influential companies. As Google’s Director of Sustainability for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, he works at the intersection of the physical, digital, and natural worlds. He coordinates with Google’s real-world and digital infrastructure teams, from real estate and supply chains to data centers and products, to ensure that the company is taking advantage of opportunities to strategically advance sustainability. Previously, Adam held senior sustainability roles at Amazon, Marks & Spencer, and Klöckner Pentaplast, where he developed and delivered innovative sustainability strategies and programs that enhanced their environmental, social, and governance performance. He is a Chartered Environmentalist and a Fellow of both IEMA and ICRS, and an Executive Fellow at King’s Business School. He has been recognised as one of the UK’s top 100 environmental professionals and among the top 50 sustainability thought leaders and influencers globally. He is passionate about creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for everyone.

Prior to joining Friends of Europe, Dharmendra Kanani was director of policy at the European Foundation Centre (EFC). He was the England director at the Big Lottery Fund, the largest independent funder in the UK and fourth largest in the world. Dharmendra has held senior positions in the public and voluntary sectors and advisor to numerous ministerial policy initiatives across the UK.

Sandra Lagumina, Franco-Italian, is senior partner of Argos Climate Action, an European Fund dedicated to the decarbonization of SME’s. She joined Argos Wityu on 1 October 2022. She is a member of the EIB Group Women Climate Leaders Network, and she has worked for nearly 20 years to sustainably transform companies from strategic, operational and managerial points of view and has helped finance their transformation. She has also undertaken and supported development and fundamental changes within energy companies notably ENGIE.

Jean-Christophe Laloux is Director General – Head of EU Lending and Advisory Operations at the European Investment Bank (EIB), the long-term financing institution of the European Union. During his ten-year tenure heading up the EIB’s frontline, his teams have delivered more than half a trillion euros in new lending operations. He has been instrumental in transforming the business delivery model of the Bank. Under his leadership and in close partnership with the European Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has developed new high impact financing instruments, including venture debt for high-tech startups (currently around €6 billion invested in 300 companies), risk-sharing instruments in partnership with European banks, new approaches to construction, merchant and technology risk in project finance structures, anchor subscription on primary markets to green bond issues by European corporates and counter-guarantees for the European wind industry (currently €5 billion deployed). Today, 75% of the Bank’s clients are private sector counterparts. Mr Laloux is dedicated to the pursuit of more meaningful risk taking at the EIB, adding value for clients and for the economy and people of Europe. He has held various frontline positions since he joined the EIB in 1999 and was also the EIB’s Head of Human Resources (2011-2013).

Nicolas Lefevre-Marton heads the Strategy Department of ENGIE Group since March 1, 2023. He joined ENGIE Impact in 2019 as Managing Director for Sustainability Solutions for Europe. At ENGIE Impact, Nicolas and his teams partnered with companies globally to accelerate their net zero carbon transformation by providing strategic, technological, engineering, financing, digital, regulatory, and implementation services. Before joining ENGIE Impact, Nicolas was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a leader of the global Innovation Practice and of the US East Coast Electric Power and Gas practice. Nicolas also worked at the International Energy Agency, where he advised governments on energy and environmental policy. He holds a PhD from Princeton University, in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy, as well as a Master of Science in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, London.

Estonian entrepreneur Taavi Madiberk is CEO of Skeleton Technologies. He was just 21 when he co-founded the company, a global innovation leader in high-power energy storage. Skeleton produces supercapacitors and its SuperBattery to decrease CO₂ emissions, stabilise grids, power AI data centres and accelerate the electrification of the planet’s largest industries. It is the only European energy storage company producing its supercapacitors and high-power batteries using its own patented material called ‘curved graphene’, based on widely available low-cost materials sourced in Europe. Skeleton’s customers include Siemens, Hitachi Energy, Honda Racing, Skoda Electric and the European Space Agency. Its new plant in Germany is the world’s largest supercapacitor factory. Madiberk is also a Board Member at the European Innovation Council.

Phuc-Vinh is the Head of the Jacques Delors Energy Centre and is a Research Fellow on French and EU energy policy. At a European level, his work focuses on the European Green Deal and carbon markets, as well as gas and electricity markets. At a national level, his work focuses on the implementation of the Green Deal in France and the role that France can play in promoting an ambitious energy and industrial policy at European level in the context of the Clean Industrial Deal. Phuc-Vinh is a visiting lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, HEC Paris and IRIS-SUP. Before joining the Institute, he worked as a parliamentary assistant in the European Parliament and as a European affairs officer in the Brussels office of the Union Française de l’Electricité.

Maud Texier is the Director for EMEA Energy. Prior to this she was the global director for clean energy and decarbonization for almost 3 years. Maud joined Google in 2019 and led the development, strategy and execution of the 24/7 carbon-free energy program for Google’s datacenters. She currently leads the technology and solutions development group working towards decarbonizing Google’s operations by 2030. Prior to joining Google, Maud was Head of Industrial Energy Products at Tesla. She joined Tesla in 2014 as part of the early team to develop Tesla’s Energy business unit where she led the product group for grid scale batteries and deployed systems across 20+ energy markets. Previously, Maud worked for Electricite De France, one of the largest global utilities, as part of the Innovation office in charge of new technologies for the group. Maud holds an MS of engineering in Energy and Power systems from Ecole Centrale Paris.

Bruno Tobback is a Belgian politician and member of the European Parliament for Vooruit, sitting with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. He began his career as a lawyer after obtaining a Master of Law and a Master of Social and Economic Law. His political career started as a provincial councillor. Since then, he has held important positions at both the Flemish and federal levels, such as parliamentary group leader in the Flemish Parliament, federal minister of Environment and Pensions and President of Vooruit. Currently, he is also a member of the city council of his hometown, Leuven.

Ke Wang leads “Energy Minerals and Circularity” at WRI, addressing the grand challenge of meeting the world’s need for energy transition minerals, both in time and in ways that are responsible for people and nature. Prior to her current role at WRI, Wang was the Program Director of PACE (Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy), where she managed the program team and oversaw a broad portfolio including electronics, food, plastics, textiles, capital equipment, and metrics. She led PACE’s flagship knowledge products such as the Circular Economy Action Agenda, and Circular Economy as a Climate Strategy, in collaboration with over 200 experts and stakeholders. Before joining WRI, Wang had been active in circular business model innovation in renewable energy and built environment. She has successfully set up and managed complex partnerships, including large project consortia such as EU Horizon2020 CIRCUSOL (circular business models for the solar power industry). Before pivoting her career to sustainability, Ke had nearly a decade of experience managing medical technology innovation at Philips, including neural implants, ultrasound imaging, and minimally invasive cardiovascular healthcare.

Born in 1977, Professor Dr. Andrea Wechsler belongs to a generation that grew up in peace, security, freedom, and prosperity. For her, Europe is a nearly 80-year success story, achieved through deliberate political effort. As an MEP, she is committed to shaping a Europe where future generations can also enjoy these values, while striving for a competitive, innovative, and strong economy within our Union.
From 2013 to 2024, she served as a Professor of Business Law at Pforzheim University, where she also led strategic development initiatives as Prorector. She directed the GründerWERK – Center for Entrepreneurship, guiding future leaders in business creation. Her experience includes serving on the Consumer Commission of Baden-Württemberg and as the Director of the Institute for Mediation and Conflict Management (IMK).
Professor Wechsler has held prestigious fellowships at the European University Institute in Florence and the Schöller Research Center and worked with the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. Her academic journey includes degrees from Columbia University, the University of Oxford, and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, where she earned her doctorate summa cum laude.

Mechthild Wörsdörfer is Deputy Director-General at the European Commission’s DG Energy, where she is in charge of the coordination of the just and green energy transition. This includes steering the work on REPowerEU, accelerating the deployment of renewables and energy efficiency measures and ensuring the EU’s security of supply. Wörsdörfer is also responsible for the relations with the Energy Community, and steers the bilateral relations with Ukraine, Moldova, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Prior to this, Wörsdörfer was the director responsible for sustainability, technology and outlooks at the International Energy Agency (IEA); and held various roles at DG Energy, including director in charge of renewables, research and innovation, energy efficiency; and director for energy policy, international relations, legal aspects and economic analysis. Previously, she was head of Unit on the 2030 Energy and Climate Framework and served in the Cabinet of Erkki Liikanen, former European commissioner for Enterprise Policy and Information Society.