The European electricity market: fit for purpose?

Leonardo Meeus is a Professor and the Director of the Florence School of Regulation at the EUI. The Loyola de Palacio Chair on European Energy Regulation and Policy at the Robert Schuman Centre is also a part-time professor at the KU Leuven in the engineering department and teaches public affairs at Vlerick Business School, where he used to be a partner. Meeus is an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation journal, and has published the open access book, “The Evolution of Electricity Markets in Europe”, as well as blogs about research with impact.

Damien Siess is the Project Director for Electricity Market Design and Nuclear Regulation at EDF. He first joined the EDF Group as the strategy director of Dalkia, an energy service company. Siess has previously worked as the corporate strategy director of the Union of the French Electricity Industry, prior to which he was a civil servant at the French Ministry of Energy and Environment and ADEME, the French Agency for the Ecological Transition. He began his career at the Regional Directorate for Industry Research and Environment of Brittany (DRIRE), where he managed the Industrial Environment Division.

Prior to assuming her current position at DG ENER, Catharina Sikow-Magny served as the head of unit in charge of consumers, local initiatives and just transition, as well as the head of united responsible for networks and regional initiatives. At the European Commission, she has also worked on international transport, trans-European network policy and financing, internalisation of external costs and strategic policy research. Sikow-Magny has previously served as a team leader and chief economist in the private sector in Finland, as well as for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.