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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE


Jorge Vasconcelos

HONORARY PRESIDENT
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Jorge Vasconcelos is currently the Chairman of NEWES, New Energy Solutions and consultant to several international organizations and  national authorities. He is Invited Professor at the Technical University of Lisbon and author and editor of several books and articles. He graduated in power systems from Porto University and got the Dr.-Ing. degree from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Jorge Vasconcelos was the first chairman of the Portuguese Energy Regulatory Authority, ERSE. He was founder and first chairman of the Council of European Energy Regulators and he was founder and member of the Executive Committee of the Florence School of Regulation. Prior to the regulatory experience, he worked in industry and at several European universities.

 

Constantinos Iliopoulos

VICE-PRESIDENT
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CONSTANTINOS ILIOPOULOS

Born 1948; graduated in law from the University of Athens (1971); degree in economics (postgraduate studies) from the Athens University of Economics and Business (1974); admitted to the Athens Bar (1973); Doctor of Law, University of Hamburg (1984); lawyer (1973-2016); Professor of International and European Economic Law (2007-2015) and Professor in the ‘Master in International and European Energy Law’ programme (2015-2017) of the Faculty of Law, Democritus University of Thrace, Professor Emeritus at the same University (2016); Assistant lecturer (1980-1984), lecturer (1992-2006) and Visiting Professor (2015) at the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg; member of the Hellenic Competition Commission (1992-2006); Legal adviser to the Minister for Economic Development and Energy (2007-2009); Legal adviser appointed by the Government of the Republic of Cyprus (2000-2003); Treasurer (1987-2000) and Secretary-General (2000-2017) of the Greek Association for European Law; founding member and Secretary-General (2012-2017) and President (2017) of the Greek Association for Energy Law; Vice-President of the Greek-German Lawyers Association (Hamburg) (1987-2017); Secretary-General of the Greek-German Lawyers Association (Athens) (1990-2017); author of numerous publications (especially in European Law, International Economic Law, Competition Law, Energy Law, Labour Law an Intellectual Property Law); Judge at the General Court of the European Union since 13 April 2016.

Vicente López-Ibor Mayor

President
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VICENTE LOPEZ-IBOR MAYOR

is Doctor in Law; Master in Business Administration, IDE; Graduate AMP from IESE; Graduate OPM from HBS (Harvard Business School); Alumni of the IVLP; Professor of Law at the Pontifical University of Comillas; Honorary President of the Spanish-American Association VIA-Jefferson Circle of Spain; Member of the Board of Global Ties Foundation; Member of the European Council of the European Federation ENAM.

Former Secretary General and Board Member of UNESA and Chairman of its Legal Committee, and Director General of the FCC Group, listed Spanish company in the field of infrastructures and services.

Former member of the Executive Committee and Legal Groups of EURELECTRIC and UNIPEDE.

Former Commissioner of the National Commission of the Electric System and the National Energy Commission of Spain.

Founding member of the European Council of Energy Regulators (CEER).

Former member of the Expert Group on Public Procurement of the European Commission.

President of the Spanish Association of Energy Law (AEDEN), since its constitution in 2017.

Chairman of the European Federation of Energy Law Associations (EFELA), since its constitution in 2017.

President of the former Energy Regulators Association (Spain).

Member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute for European Studies of the San Pablo-CEU University.

He is President of the International Law Firm, Estudio Jurídico Internacional; and Chairman of Ampere Energy; Chairman of Lightsource Foundation (former Chairman-Founder of Lightsource Renewable Energy Ltd. since its constitution in 2010, the largest British company in the field of Solar P.V. in the European Union).

Author of a large number of legal and energy publications.

Marinella de Focatiis

General Secretary
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Born in Milan, she is a graduate (1991) in Law from University of Milan. Her final thesis was on “Judiciary inspection and les constats d’huissier de justice….”

She was Teaching Assistant of Public and Administrative Law with Professor Pericu in University of Milan.

In 1993 she passed the bar exam in Milan. Before joining Edison in 2000 she worked in three law firms and developed a specific competence in telecommunications assisting several firms (among them Omnitel-Vodafone)

In 2000 she joined Edison where, as internal lawyer, she took responsibility of Energy Administrative Law, of Market Regulation by the Independent Authority and of Administrative Litigation.

She is co-editor of a series of books on energy market law and regulation published by Giuffrè Editore in cooperation with University of Bergamo.

She is a passionate reader of 19th Century literature; Charles Dickens is her favorite author.

She is a great traveler, having canvassed most of Asia with her heavy luggage full of books. Her latest trip was to Laos.

Eugenio Bruti Liberati

Vice-President
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Education

Born in Washington on May 28th, 1959.
 He graduated with honors in law at the University of Genoa in 1985, and obtained a PhD in Administrative Law at the “Università degli Studi” of Milan in 1992.

Academic and scientific activity

He is full professor in Administrative Law at University of Piemonte Orientale.

From 1992 to 1999, he served as researcher in Administrative Law at the “Università degli Studi” of Milan.
 From 1996 to 2001 he served as Professor of Administrative Law at the University “L. Bocconi” of Milan.

From 1999, he served as Professor of Administrative Law, Environmental Law and Law of Economics at the University “A. Avogadro” of Alessandria, Faculty of Law.

From 2004 to 2011, he was Director of the Master in “Law and Economics of Environmental Goods” at the University “A. Avogadro” of Alessandria, Faculty of Law.

He is a faculty member for the PhD course in “Local self-governments, public services and rights of citizenship” (DRASD) at the University “A. Avogadro” of Alessandria, Faculty of Law.

He lectured at the Academy of the “Guardia di Finanza” (Italian Finance Police) of Bergamo, at various other public administrations, as well as at PhD courses in other Universities (e.g. University “L. Bocconi” of Milan and University of Pavia).


He is Director of the “Markets Regulation Review” (“Rivista della Regolazione dei Mercati”), edited by Giappichelli Editore.

Professional career

Professor Bruti Liberati is a Barrister of the Su­preme Court and specializes in administrative law. He advises and represents in Court both private undertakings and public entities with particular reference to the following subjects: services of general economic interest, public procurements, public contracts and agreements, environmental law, planning, antitrust, cultural heritage and regulation of markets.

From 1999 to 2001, he served as General Counsel of Edison S.p.A.

Professor Bruti Liberati is a founding partner of GPA - GiusPubblicisti Associati.

Peter Cameron

Vice-President
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Peter Cameron is one of the world’s leading authorities on energy law. He is currently Professor of International Energy Law and Director of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee in Scotland UK
(http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cepmlp/staff/pcameron.php).
Peter is a barrister (England & Wales) and currently sits as an arbitrator in ICSID proceedings.
He is regularly asked to act as an Expert Witness in international arbitral proceedings and litigation. He has given testimony in proceedings before the LCIA, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chambers of Commerce, and the ICC in Paris. He has also testified before the Commercial Court in London.
Formerly, he was a professor at the European University Institute in Florence and prior to that, Director of the International Institute of Energy Law at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He has held visiting or part-time posts at the Universities of Oxford, Stanford, Singapore and Madrid (Autónoma). He is an honorary professorial fellow at Edinburgh University.
He specializes in three areas: international investment law, EU energy law and law and development.
On international investment law, Peter is the author of the monograph, ‘International Energy Investment Law: The Pursuit of Stability’ (Oxford University Press, 2010), the second edition of which is being finalized. His next book will be ‘International Energy Arbitration’ (Kluwer, 2019). He is known as an expert on contract stabilization issues and his work is regularly cited in arbitral and court proceedings. Peter is co-director of the International Centre for Energy Arbitration, a joint venture between the Scottish Arbitration Centre and the University of Dundee, which will host the biennial ICCA conference in 2020.
In EU energy law, he has compiled an overview of EU energy regimes in ‘Legal Aspects of EU Energy Regulation’ (OUP, 2016). He has also submitted testimony on BREXIT to the UK House of Commons. Peter is the joint founder of the UK Energy Law and Policy Association, and from 2017 became Vice President of the European Federation of Energy Law Associations.
On law and economic development, he led a World Bank funded project on Good Governance in mining, oil and gas, entitled The Extractive Industries Source Book (www.eisourcebook.org). A hard copy was published by The World Bank in June 2017 and has been downloaded as an e-book from the World Bank Open Knowledge Repository almost 15,000 times since then: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/26130 . He is currently the senior advisor on content for the Extractives Hub project, funded by the UK Department for International Development: www.extractiveshub.org.
He has often worked as an advisor or consultant to governments, particularly in the resourcerich economies, and to international organizations such as The World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, various organs of the United Nations, the European Commission and the African Petroleum Producers Association. The subjects have mainly concerned hydrocarbons law and agreements, but also include bauxite and gold mining agreements and renewable forms of energy.
Peter was active in supporting the aims of the sole international treaty on energy, the Energy Charter Treaty, and has regularly advised the Charter Secretariat, most recently on the introduction of amendments to address low carbon issues. He is a member of its Legal Sub-Committee.
He is the author or editor of fourteen books and almost one hundred articles, and is also joint editor of the new Encyclopedia of Mining and Energy Policy (Springer, online).
In 2013 Peter was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is an associate at Tanfield Chambers, London, and member of the Middle Temple Inn of Court, London.

Philippe Redaelli

Vice-Presidents
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Philippe Redaelli is a graduate of University Paris Panthéon Sorbonne (Master in international private law and international business law - 1997) and of Essec Business School (MBA - 1999).  

Since 2018, he is the chairman of the French Association of Energy Law which he co-founded 2008. 

Philippe has started as a lawyer and projects and policy officer at the European stock exchange Euronext in Paris and London in charge of derivatives market rules & regulation. In 2001 he joined the newly created French energy exchange Powernext as the first employee initially in charge of legal and regulation and then as General Secretary. He directly contributed to / initiated the establishment of the European rules and regulation applicable to power, gas and CO2 markets on exchanges, trading, market coupling, clearing, settlement, nomination, market surveillance and regulation.  In 2009 he joined Alpiq as CFO of the Warket West Business Unit with a significative production and key accounts portfolio in France and Spain. In 2012 he joined the European energy exchange EPEX as a General Secretary and Coordinator of the Executive Committee. He directly contributed to the development of exchanges in Europe with a series of mergers and acquisitions positioning EPEX as the major power exchange in Europe. He was also involved in the establishment of the Serbian power exchange. 

Philippe has been a member of the CESR – ERGEG expert group on market transparency and active participation of preparatory of the Mifid 2 directive and Remit regulation and of professional associations working groups in France (Comité de Droit Financier de Paris Europlace, Comité commodities de l’AMAFI - Association des professionnels des marchés financiers) and Europe (Europex and EFET).

Invited lecturer at Science Po Paris.

Since 2018, he is involved in entrepreneurial projects in the energy and financial sectors involving new technologies such as platforms and blockchain. 

Louis de Fontanelle

Treasurer

Ivone Rocha

Member
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Partner
at Telles de Abreu Law Firm

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Master's degree in Public Law from the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University, Law Degree from the University of Coimbra (1989), and postgraduate degree in "Administrative Litigation" from the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University. A degree on Public Law, by the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, and Postgraduate in European Studies by the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. Responsible of the Energy and Natural Resources practice area at Telles de Abreu Law Firm (www.telles.pt). Co-author of the book, "Climate Chance! An economic legal reflection of the carbon market in the fight against climate change ". Speaker at several conferences, columnist at Agua & Ambiente, a sustainability publication where signs a monthly article about energy. Member of the board of PCS – Sustainable Development Platform – a Portuguese Think Tank (www.crescimentosustentavel.org). Member of the Energy Group at the Portuguese Green Economy Government Commission/ Funder and Member of the executive committee of the European Energy Federation.
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As legal advice on energy and environment law since 1995, was responsible for the first Earlier Reduction Purchase Agreement signed in Portugal for Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism projects. Was also responsible for the legal support on several renewable energy projects and public energy efficiency contracts.
Have participate on Copenhagen CoP and Paris CoP on the Portuguese Government Delegation. Expert nominated by UNFCCC for the Validation report team for an energy project in Africa.
Responsible for several legal opinions papers in energy and legal adviser of several energy producers, as well as public entities/Responsible for several Due Dilligence on CDM and JI projects on China; Thailand; Moscow and Brazil.
Expert nominated by UNFCCC for the Validation report team for an energy project in Africa.

Federico Piccaluga

Member
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Federico Piccaluga is the General Counsel of Duferco Group and a qualified lawyer with international in-house experience in energy law.

He is also in charge of Duferco Group Sustainability activities. In 2019 he has been appointed Non-Executive Board Member of Wesii, an Italian start-up operating worldwide, that provides cutting-edge multispectral inspection services in the energy sector.

Federico is graduated in Law from University of Genoa, where from 2001 to 2004 he has been Assistant to Professor of Civil Law. He is a member of the Swiss Bar Association.

Federico is a Founding Member and Vice-President of Swiss Energy Law Association (SELA). He also actively participates in different organizations including the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), in which he holds the role of Country Representative for Switzerland.

Branislava Lepotic Kovacevic

Member
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Dr. Branislava Lepotić Kovačević is an energy lawyer. She passed the bar exam. She has  doctor dissertation in 2001. Further specialist education in the EU law has been acquired in Berlin and Brussels, and in the energy law at the CEPMLP, University of Dundee, United Kingdom. She tought the energy law and regulation at the Energy Law postgraduate studies at the Law Faculty, University of Belgrade, during 2004-2006. That built the 120 professionals allumni with different background: lawyers, economists and engineers; from Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina that populate newly established regulatory institutions and companies for emergging liberalized energy market under the Energy Community Treaty. From another point, this work have established energy law profession across the region and accross the industry.
 
For over twenty years she has been working in the field of energy on various expert and managerial affairs in the field of commercial law and the energy law. She was engaged and cooperated with government and regulatory institutions, as well as bodies of the UN, the EU, the Energy Community, USAID, GIZ, KPMG, KEMA and others. She participated in drafting a series legislation, laws and sublaws in the energy sector in the Balkan region. She is the author of over 50 papers in the field of commercial law, energy law, European Union law and other related fields of law. She is regular author with the Klywer Law International Enciclopedia of Law on the Energy law of Montengro and Serbia. She speaks to conferences, Parliamentary hearings and various professional association within the energy industry across the region.

Branislava lead an efforts to establish the Serbia Energy Regulatory Agency. She provided training to key professional staff at the Serbia energy utility in the Energy Community Treaty and the energy law with the PWC. She was a lead lawyer in spin-off of the oil pipeline company, Transnafta, from the Oil Industry of Serbia (NIS) prior to NIS acquisition by GazPromNeft. As a Director of Legal Affairs she resumed a role of key lawyer in the pan European Oil Pipeline project with counterparts from Croatia, Italy, Romania and Slovenia.

Beyond being President of the Serbia Energy law Association, she is the member of: the Assembly of the Association of Lawyers in the Economy, the Executive Board of the Serbian Petroleum Gas Association - SNAGA, the Association of International Negotiators in the Oil Economy (AIPN), the Thermal Power Association  and been member of the Executive Committee of the National Petroleum Committee of Serbia - World Oil Council.

Constantinos Tsimaras

Member
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Constantinos Tsimaras was born in Athens. He graduated from the Athens University Law School. He has an LLM in Public Law from University of Paris I, an MA in Political Science from the same university and a PhD in public law from University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne). After his PhD he continued his studies with a post-doc at the Universities of Toledo, Lisbon and as a researcher in the Portuguese Constitutional Court. He also attended classes at the MA of “Law and Finance” at the University of Paris V.

He is a lawyer since 1992. Constantino’s practice is focused on public law, including all branches of administrative law, public procurement law, state aid, data protection law, constitutional law, human rights protection, legislation drafting and consulting on EU’s programs.

He worked as in internal lawyer at the “Information Society SA” a special branch of the Greek Ministry of Interior and Public Administration, specialized in public procurement. He worked also as a lawyer for the National Audiovisual Archives in Greece, in the areas of administrative law, public procurement and data protection.

He has a long expertise as legal consultant for members of the Greek Cabinet especially in law drafting.  From 2002 is teaching at universities in Greece and Cyprus. He is the writer of several books and articles in law reviews across Europe.

For the last 9 years, he is an external expert for the Council of Europe and EIPA. He participated in many research programs in Eastern Europe, Middle East and ex-soviet republics in the topics of public administration reorganization, justice organization, state re-organization, EU acquis.

Languages: Greek, French (fluent) English, Portuguese.

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE


Guillaume Dezorbry

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Guillaume Dezobry is an of Counsel lawyer at FIDAL where he is co-leading the energy practice.

His hands-on experience spans all legal aspects of the energy sector: transmission – distribution – generation and supply of electricity and gas.
Guillaume received a PhD in public law from University Paris X in 2007. He is also a senior lecturer and teaches Energy Law at Sciences Po Paris, University Paris Dauphine, University of Strasbourg and University of Amiens.
He is a researcher at the Chaire European Electricity Market and is the author of many publications on energy law issues.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE


Peter Cameron

President
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NATIONALITY: British
EDUCATION
University of Edinburgh, 1974-1977, PhD
Title of Thesis: “Property Rights and Sovereign Rights: The Case of North Sea Oil
University of Edinburgh, 1970-1974, LLB
Joint Honours in Law and Politics
COUNTRIES OF WORK EXPERIENCE: List Alphabetically
Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Burma, Democratic Republic of Congo Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, India, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, The EU, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
EMPLOYMENT RECORD
Director and Professor of International Energy Law and Policy at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) at the University of Dundee (UK). The CEPMLP is a postgraduate, multi-disciplinary teaching institution that has almost 400 graduate students enrolled in its on-campus and distance-learning programmes, who study the law, economics and management of natural resources. Located within the School of Social Sciences it is to my knowledge, the largest educational establishment in this subject area in the world, originating in the Department of Public Law at the University of Dundee.
LANGUAGES: English
RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Prof Cameron has been consultant to many governments, private companies and international organisations around the world, such the World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Commission and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. He has also acted as an expert witness in many oil and gas arbitrations; done training for energy companies at their request, and has been a leading member of industry associations.
On decommissioning, he carried out two studies for the UN ESCAP in Bangkok in the early 1990s which led to publications by UN ESCAP on this subject with detailed summaries of the legislation in force or envisaged by the governments in all major ESCAP countries at the time. This was a pioneering piece of research which led to and fed into his study for the AIPN in the late 1990s. He has followed this subject since.
He was frequently hired by international organisations to assist in the design of petroleum laws and has developed an unprecedented knowledge of good practice in petroleum laws and contracts.
Peter Cameron had a long association with the Financial Times division which produced six lengthy management reports for senior executives, from 1984 to 1999. He developed a good understanding of what aspects of energy business senior executives were looking to be informed upon (subjects extended from oil and gas to electricity, mostly regulation).
PUBLICATIONS
Cameron, P 2016, Introduction: The Internal Energy Market: Redefining Objectives.
In PD Cameron & RJ Heffron (eds), Legal Aspects of EU Energy Regulation: The Consolidation of Energy Law Across Europe. 2nd edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 3-31.
Heffron, RJ, Roberts, P, Cameron, P & Johnston, A 2016, 'A review of energy law education in the UK', Journal of World Energy Law & Business, vol 9, no. 5, pp. 346-356.
Cameron, P 2016, The Design of Joint Development Zone Treaties and International Unitization Agreements. In P Daniel, M Keen, A Swistak & V Thuronyi (eds), International Taxation and the Extractive Industries. Routledge Studies in Development Economics, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 242-262.
Cameron, PD 2016, 'Investment Cycles and the Rule of Law in the International Oil and Gas Industry: Some Reflections on Changing Investor-State Relationships'
Houston Journal of International Law, vol 38, no. 3, pp. 755-795.
Cameron, P 2016, ‘Renewable Energy Disputes’.
In GFM Little & RJ Heffron (eds), Delivering Energy Law and Policy in the EU and the US: A Reader. 1 edn, Chapter 5, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 23-28.
Malone, B & Cameron, P 2015, Dispute Resolution in the Energy Sector: Initial Report.
Scottish Arbitration Centre, Edinburgh.
Cameron, P 2014, In Search of Investment Stability. In K Talus (ed.), Research Handbook in International Energy Law. Research Handbooks in International Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp. 124-148.
Cameron, P 2013, Reflections on sovereignty over natural resources and the enforcement of stabilization clauses. In KP Sauvant (ed.), Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2011-2012. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 311-344.
Cameron, P 2012, 'Liability for Catastrophic Risk in the Oil and Gas Industry'
International Energy Law Review , vol 6, pp. 207-219.
Cameron, PD 2011, 'Contracts and constitutions: The Kurdish factor in the development of oil in Iraq', International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, vol 5, no. 1, pp. 81-99.
Cameron, P 2011, The EU and energy security: a critical review of the legal issues.
In A Antoniadis, R Schutze & E Spaventa (eds), The European Union and gobal emergencies: a law and policy analysis. Hart Publishing, Oxford, pp. 125-140.
Cameron, PD 2011, The energy charter treaty and east-west transit.
In G Coop (ed.), Energy dispute resolution: investment protection, transit and the energy charter treaty. Juris Publishing, New York, pp. 297-313.
Cameron, P & Kolo, A 2011, Investment law, energy. In K Bosselmann, DS Fogel & JB Ruhl (eds), The law and politics of sustainability. Berkshire encyclopedia of sustainability, no. 3, Berkshire Publishing Group, Great Barrington, Mass., pp. 341-345.
Cameron, PD 2010, International Energy Investment Law: The Pursuit of Stability.
Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Cameron, PD 2009, 'Energy law in Europe'
European Law Review, vol 34, no. 3, pp. 507-508.
Cameron, P 2009, Energy: efficiency, security and the environment.
In M Dougan & S Currie (eds), 50 years of the European treaties: looking back and looking forward. Hart Publishing, Oxford, pp. 255-278.
Cameron, PD 2009, The EU single market and multi-level interaction.
In B Eberlein & CB Doern (eds), Governing the energy challenge: Canada and Germany in a multi-level regional and global context. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, pp. 174-197.
Cameron, P & Correa, E 2008, Towards the contractual management of public participation issues: a review of corporate initiatives.
In D Zillman, A Lucas & G Pring (eds), Human rights in natural resource development: public participation in the sustainable development of mining and energy resources. Oxford University Press.
Cameron, PD 2008, History of climate change law and policy. In PQ Watchman (ed.), Climate change : a guide to carbon law and practice. Globe Law And Business, pp. 23-38.
Cameron, PD 2007, 'The revival of nuclear power: an analysis of the legal implications'
Journal of Environmental Law, vol 19, no. 1, pp. 71-87. DOI:
Cameron, PD 2007,Competition in energy markets: law and regulation in the European Union. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Cameron, P 2007, 'New directions in UK energy policy', International Journal of Energy Sector Management, vol 1, no. 3, pp. 218-220.
Cameron, PD 2006, 'The rules of engagement: developing cross-border petroleum deposits in the North Sea and the Caribbean', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, vol 55, no. 3, pp. 559-585.
Cameron, PD 2005, 'The internal market in energy: harnessing the new regulatory regime'
European Law Review, vol 30, no. 5, pp. 631-648.
Cameron, P (ed.) 2005, Legal aspects of EU energy regulation: implementing the new directives on electricity and gas across Europe.
Oxford University Press.
Cameron, PD & Zillman, D (eds) 2001, Kyoto : from principles to practice.
Kluwer Law International.
Cameron, P 1999, International law and radioactive nuclear waste management.
In NLJT Horbach (ed.), Contemporary developments in nuclear energy law: harmonising legislation in CEEC/NIS. International energy and resources law and policy series, no. 14, Kluwer Law International, The Hague.
Cameron, P 1995, Gas regulation in Europe: from monopoly to competition.
Financial Times Energy Publishing, London.
MacDougall, D & Cameron, P 1994, 'Trade in energy and natural resources: trade-related investment measures ; focus on Eastern Europe'
Journal of World Trade, vol 28, no. 3, pp. 171-180.

Marinella de Focatiis

Secretariat
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Born in Milan, she is a graduate (1991) in Law from University of Milan. Her final thesis was on “Judiciary inspection and les constats d’huissier de justice….”

She was Teaching Assistant of Public and Administrative Law with Professor Pericu in University of Milan.

In 1993 she passed the bar exam in Milan. Before joining Edison in 2000 she worked in three law firms and developed a specific competence in telecommunications assisting several firms (among them Omnitel-Vodafone)

In 2000 she joined Edison where, as internal lawyer, she took responsibility of Energy Administrative Law, of Market Regulation by the Independent Authority and of Administrative Litigation.

She is co-editor of a series of books on energy market law and regulation published by Giuffrè Editore in cooperation with University of Bergamo.

She is a passionate reader of 19th Century literature; Charles Dickens is her favorite author.

She is a great traveler, having canvassed most of Asia with her heavy luggage full of books. Her latest trip was to Laos.

Philippe Redaelli

Vice-Presidents
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Philippe Redaelli is a graduate of University Paris Panthéon Sorbonne (Master in international private law and international business law - 1997) and of Essec Business School (MBA - 1999).  

Since 2018, he is the chairman of the French Association of Energy Law which he co-founded 2008. 

Philippe has started as a lawyer and projects and policy officer at the European stock exchange Euronext in Paris and London in charge of derivatives market rules & regulation. In 2001 he joined the newly created French energy exchange Powernext as the first employee initially in charge of legal and regulation and then as General Secretary. He directly contributed to / initiated the establishment of the European rules and regulation applicable to power, gas and CO2 markets on exchanges, trading, market coupling, clearing, settlement, nomination, market surveillance and regulation.  In 2009 he joined Alpiq as CFO of the Warket West Business Unit with a significative production and key accounts portfolio in France and Spain. In 2012 he joined the European energy exchange EPEX as a General Secretary and Coordinator of the Executive Committee. He directly contributed to the development of exchanges in Europe with a series of mergers and acquisitions positioning EPEX as the major power exchange in Europe. He was also involved in the establishment of the Serbian power exchange. 

Philippe has been a member of the CESR – ERGEG expert group on market transparency and active participation of preparatory of the Mifid 2 directive and Remit regulation and of professional associations working groups in France (Comité de Droit Financier de Paris Europlace, Comité commodities de l’AMAFI - Association des professionnels des marchés financiers) and Europe (Europex and EFET).

Invited lecturer at Science Po Paris.

Since 2018, he is involved in entrepreneurial projects in the energy and financial sectors involving new technologies such as platforms and blockchain. 

José Luis da Cruz Vilaga

Member
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JOSÉ LUIS DA CRUZ VILAGA

Degree in Law and Master's degree in Political Economy at the University of Coimbra; Doctor in International Economics (University of Paris | - Panthéon Sorbonne); Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford, e Fordham School of Law, NY; compulsory military service in the Portuguese Navy (Justice Department, 1969-72); member of the Board of Curators, Nova University Foundation; Professor at the Catholic University and the Nova University of Lisbon; formerly Professor at the University of Coimbra and at Lusiada University, Lisbon (Director of the Institute for European Studies); Member of the Portuguese Government (1980-83): State Secretary for Home Affairs, State Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office and State Secretary for European Affairs; Member of the Portuguese Parliament, Vice- President of the Christian-Democrat Group; Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the EC (1986-88); President of the Court of First Instance of the EC (1989-95); Judge at the Court of Justice (2012-2018); member of the Working Party on the Future of the European Communities' Court System - ‘Due Group' (2000); Chairman of the Government Committee in charge of preparing the new competition legislation in Portugal (2002-03); Chairman of the Disciplinary Board of the European Commission (2003-07); President of APDE - Portuguese Association of European Law (2006-2018); President of FIDE — International Federation for European Law (2016-2018); President of APDEN- Portuguese Association of Energy Law (2019-); member of the Portuguese bar since 1969, specialist in European and competition law (Partner with PLMJ - 1996-2012), Founding Partner of Cruz Vilaga & Associates — Law firm; author of circa 200 books and articles. Decorations and honorary titles: Gra-Cruz da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique, Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, Gran-Croce dell’Ordine di Merito della Republica Italiana, Grand-Croix de |’Ordre Grand-Ducal de la Couronne de Chéne.


Eva Barret

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Dr. Eva Barrett is a Professional Support Lawyer (PSL) working primarily on energy, environment and planning law with McCann FitzGerald in Dublin. She has a Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin; an LL.B. in Law and European Studies (German and Politics) from the University of Limerick; and qualified as a lawyer while working with another leading law firm in 2009. Before joining McCann FitzGerald, Dr. Barrett worked as a lecturer with University College Cork; Vermont Law School's Institute for Energy and the Environment (Fulbright Schuman awarded); Trinity College Dublin; and Maynooth University. She has also worked in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Energy and Transport, Brussels; and at the Institute of International & European Affairs (IIEA) in Dublin. Dr. Barrett has been published in a variety of international peer-reviewed journals and won national and international awards for research, writing and teaching.

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Eugenio Bruti Liberati

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Education

Born in Washington on May 28th, 1959.
 He graduated with honors in law at the University of Genoa in 1985, and obtained a PhD in Administrative Law at the “Università degli Studi” of Milan in 1992.

Academic and scientific activity

He is full professor in Administrative Law at University of Piemonte Orientale.

From 1992 to 1999, he served as researcher in Administrative Law at the “Università degli Studi” of Milan.
 From 1996 to 2001 he served as Professor of Administrative Law at the University “L. Bocconi” of Milan.

From 1999, he served as Professor of Administrative Law, Environmental Law and Law of Economics at the University “A. Avogadro” of Alessandria, Faculty of Law.

From 2004 to 2011, he was Director of the Master in “Law and Economics of Environmental Goods” at the University “A. Avogadro” of Alessandria, Faculty of Law.

He is a faculty member for the PhD course in “Local self-governments, public services and rights of citizenship” (DRASD) at the University “A. Avogadro” of Alessandria, Faculty of Law.

He lectured at the Academy of the “Guardia di Finanza” (Italian Finance Police) of Bergamo, at various other public administrations, as well as at PhD courses in other Universities (e.g. University “L. Bocconi” of Milan and University of Pavia).


He is Director of the “Markets Regulation Review” (“Rivista della Regolazione dei Mercati”), edited by Giappichelli Editore.

Professional career

Professor Bruti Liberati is a Barrister of the Su­preme Court and specializes in administrative law. He advises and represents in Court both private undertakings and public entities with particular reference to the following subjects: services of general economic interest, public procurements, public contracts and agreements, environmental law, planning, antitrust, cultural heritage and regulation of markets.

From 1999 to 2001, he served as General Counsel of Edison S.p.A.

Professor Bruti Liberati is a founding partner of GPA - GiusPubblicisti Associati.

Inigo Del Guayo

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Iñigo del Guayo is Professor in Administrative Law at the University of Almería. He got his two law Decrees (LLM and PhD) from the University of Navarre. He has researched and published widely in the area of Energy Law and Regulation, within a wider interest in Public Economic Law and Regulation. He is the editor and a co-author of the three editions of the Book «Energy Law in Europe. National, European Union and International Law and Regulation» (Oxford University Press, 2001, 2007 and 2016). Since 1995 is a member of the Academic Advisory Group (AAG) of the Section on Energy, Environment, Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL) of the International Bar Association. He has written many reports on a great variety of energy issues for public and private institutions. Director of the Master on Energy Law, of the Spanish Energy Club.


Guillaume Dezorbry

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Guillaume Dezobry is an of Counsel lawyer at FIDAL where he is co-leading the energy practice.

His hands-on experience spans all legal aspects of the energy sector: transmission – distribution – generation and supply of electricity and gas.
Guillaume received a PhD in public law from University Paris X in 2007. He is also a senior lecturer and teaches Energy Law at Sciences Po Paris, University Paris Dauphine, University of Strasbourg and University of Amiens.
He is a researcher at the Chaire European Electricity Market and is the author of many publications on energy law issues.

Filippo Donati

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Filippo Donati is full professor of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Florence since 2003. He also teaches Media Law in the University of Florence.

His main research interests include: (i) the interaction between Constitutional Law, European Union Law and international treaties, on which he has published and edited books (Diritto comunitario e sindacato di costituzionalità, Milan, 1995; Una Costituzione per l’Unione europea, ed. by G.Morbidelli and F.Donati, Turin, 2006) and several articles, (ii) the regulation on services of general interest (in particular energy and communications), on which he has published and edited books (La regolazione dei servizi di interesse economico generale, 2010, ed. by Eugenio Bruti Liberati and Filippo Donati, Il nuovo diritto dell’energia tra regolazione e concorrenza, ed. by Eugenio Bruti Liberati and Filippo Donati, Torino, 2007 La nuova disciplina delle comunicazioni elettroniche, Turin, 2009, L’ordinamento amministrativo delle comunicazioni, Turin, 2007) and several articles, (iii) the Italian institutional system, on which he has published a book (La responsabilità politica dei ministri nella forma di governo italiana, Giappichelli, Turin, 1997) and several articles.

His publications include 3 monographs, 10 edited books essays, more that 100 articles and notes.

He is director of the Law Review “Rivista della regolazione dei mercati” and seats in the Board of Editors of “Italian Journal of Public Law”, “Il Diritto dell’Unione europea”, “Osservatorio sulle fonti”.

Julie-Anne Hannon

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Julie-Anne Hannon (LLB, LLM) trained and qualified as a solicitor with a leading Dublin law firm with whom she worked post-qualification.  In January 2010 she took a career break to pursue a Masters in Energy Law and Policy at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy in the University of Dundee. She was awarded a Distinction in this Masters in June 2011 as well as being awarded the Director’s Medal for leadership. She then joined the Regulation team of the Irish utility company Bord Gais Energy in July 2011 where she continues to work in commercial regulatory affairs. Her focus is on wholesale electricity market regulation, policy and law (including for example capacity mechanisms, ancillary services, forwards, spot markets and renewables supports) as well as wholesale gas market issues. Julie-Anne has had a number of papers related to these areas published.

Julie-Anne co-founded Energy Law Ireland (ELI) with a solicitor colleague in 2009. She is former chair and vice-chairperson and current secretary of ELI. She also sits on EFELA’s Scientific Committee.

Raphael Heffron

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Raphael Heffron is Professor for Global Energy Law & Sustainability at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee. His work is international and combines a mix of energy law, policy and economics – including interdisciplinary energy research, EU and US energy law and policy. He has published over 100 publications of different types. Professor Heffron’s research all has a principle focus on achieveing a just transition to a low-carbon economy.
His research has been cited over 500 times in the last four years.
Raphael’s research has involved funding from UK national research councils (the ESRC, and the EPSRC), the EU (in a Horizon 2020 project) and currently through the European Commission Jean Monnet Chair 2016-2019. He has acted as a consultant for the World Bank and various policy organisations in the EU. Raphael is on the Editorial Board of the International Energy Law Review and is also Consulting Editor of the Halsbury’s Laws of England volumes on Energy Law.
Raphael is currently the Co-Chair of the UK Energy Law and Policy Association; Visiting Professor in Energy Law at the International Hellenic University (Greece); and an Associate Researcher at the Energy Policy Research Group at the University of Cambridge. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Paris-Dauphine University (Paris, France) this year (2018).
Raphael read for his PhD at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. He is also a trained Barrister-at-Law and was called to the Bar in July 2007 in the Republic of Ireland. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (MPhil, PhD), the University of St. Andrews (MLitt), and Trinity College Dublin (BA, MA).

Personal Details
Nationality: Irish
Phone Number: 0044-7868572784
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Address: Centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral Law & Policy, University of
Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4HN, UK
Qualifications: BA, MA, MLitt, MPhil, PhD and Barrister-at-Law
Current Academic Positions
Professor in Global Energy Law & Sustainability
Centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral Law & Policy, University of
Dundee, UK (since 04/18)
Co-Chair UK Energy Law and Policy Association
Scientific Committee European Federation of Energy Law Associations.
Policy Fellow Policy Fellows Network, Centre for Science and Policy, University
of Cambridge, UK
Associate Researcher Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge, UK
Associate Fellow Centre for Integrated Energy Research, University of Leeds, UK
Consultant UK Electricity Regulator (OFGEM) – Consortium Team 2015-2018
Visiting Professor Energy Law, International Hellenic University (Thessaloniki,Greece)
Visiting Professor Energy Law, Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris, France – April 2018)
Guest Lecturer ESCP Business School, London & Paris (2015-18)
Current Research & Teaching Interests
Energy Law and Policy (inc. Mining Law, Energy Economics, Low-Carbon Energy Law, US
Energy Law, Energy Ethics, and Decommissioning & Project Finance); Environmental &
Climate Change Policy Law; Land Law; Tort; and General Commerical Law.

Education
2008-2013 PhD - Management (Viva Passed, Oct 2012 – Graduated Mar 23rd 2013)
Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG), University of Cambridge, UK
Supervisors: Professor. William J. Nuttall, (Open University, UK) and Professor
Angus Johnston (Law, University of Oxford)
Dissertation: Policy for New-Build Nuclear Power Stations in the EU & the US
2007-2008 M.Phil - Land Economy: Planning, Regrowth and Regeneration
Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK
Dissertation: Public Participation in UK National Energy Projects (Distinction)
2004-2007 Barrister-at-Law
Honourable Society of King’s Inns, Dublin, Ireland
Professional Subjects & Legal Academic Subjects including both Civil and
Criminal Law and Procedure, Opinion Writing, and Drafting.
Supreme Court Call to the Bar – July 2007
2003-2004 M.Litt - Management Economics and International Relations,
Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Dissertation: Trends in the History of Corporate Regulation and Strategy
1999-2003 BA (Mod), MA - Joint Honours in Business and Economics
Faculty of Economics & Social Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Dissertation: Environmental Performance in Transition Economy Countries
Funded Research and Awards
2018 UK Energy Research Centre Research & Networking Grant “The Just Transition”
2016-19 Jean Monnet Chair (Professorship) in Energy & Natural Resources Law
2015 EU Horizon 2020 on Carbon Capture and Storage Law and Policy (Co-Investigator
and Lead on a Work Package £94,000) – Overall Grant Total €789,000
Professional and Honorary Activities
International Research Grant Review Experience
• Belgian Research Council (Energy Law & Policy Post-Doc grant reviewer (2017);
• Dutch Social Science Research Council (Reviewer & Interviewer – Awards £3m -
April to June 2017).
Guest Editor
• Special Edition on ‘Low-Carbon Energy Systems and Energy Justice’, Applied
Energy (Impact Factor 7.182) – March 2017 ongoing
• Special Edition on ‘Energy Law & Policy’, Energy Policy (Impact Factor 4.14) –
• Special Edition on ‘Decommissioning Law & Policy’, Journal of World Energy Law
& Business (OUP Journal) – July 2017 ongoing
Editorial Board - International Energy Law Review (Thomson Reuters) (as of January 2018)
Statement of Publications (Books)
1. Cameron, P. D. and Heffron, R. J. (editors). 2016. (2nd Edition) Legal Aspects of EU
Energy Regulation. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
2. Heffron R.J., and Little G. (Eds). 2016. Delivering Energy Law and Policy in the EU
and US: A Reader. Edinburgh University Press: UK.
3. Heffron. R. J. 2015. Energy Law. Roundhall, Sweet & Maxwell – Thomson Reuters:
Dublin, Ireland
4. Heffron, R. J. 2015. Energy Law: An Introduction. Springer: Heidelberg, Germany.
- Persian translation published 2017, Chinese translation (September 2017), over 3500
downloads and hardcopies sold to-date (English language version)
5. Heffron. R. J. 2015. Deconstructing Energy Law and Policy: The Case of Nuclear
Energy. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.


Matthias Lang

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Matthias offers clients his extensive entrepreneurial knowledge and longstanding expertise in the international energy and regulatory sector.Matthias is a partner in the International Energy & Utilities Sector Group, based in our Düsseldorf office.
He is a member of Bird & Bird’s Regulatory & Administrative Practice Group.
Matthias studied economics at Wirtschaftsakademie Hamburg (now Hamburg School of Business Administration) and was a banker before he studied law in Trier and Geneva. He did his PhD at Humboldt University in Berlin on an environmental and corporate law subject.. During his Referendariat (clerkship) he worked in Hamburg, Brussels and London. He was admitted to the Berlin bar in 1998, spent a year working as a foreign associate for an international law firm in New York, and has been admitted to the Düsseldorf bar since 2002.
Matthias regularly advises clients on energy, regulatory, and environmental law as well as issues arising from public commercial law. Matthias has additional expertise in corporate law, administrative, European, and real estate law, as well as standardisation.
Matthias has extensive experience in advising clients on all aspects of the German Energiewende (energy turnaround) and cross-border energy issues, including both conventional and renewable energy generation as well planning and permit procedures for extra high voltage lines and other industrial installations. He has worked on numerous complex infrastructure projects as well as transactions in regulated industries, including energy, healthcare, transportation and water. His work includes representing clients before the Federal Network Agency, ministries and other authorities in diverse administrative, regulatory or legislative proceedings, before national and European courts and in arbitration proceedings. With his team, he has also advised on the transposition of European law, such as the Third Internal Market Package and various European environmental directives and regulations, including REACh, WEEE and ROHS.
Matthias is a regular contributor to conventional and online legal publications. He writes the section on permits for conventional power plants and wind farms for the “Berlin Commentary on Energy Law”. He covers international company law in the “Beck Online Commentary on the Limited Liability Company Act”. He has recently also published articles on oil and gas law in Germany, prosumer legislation, the digitisation of the energy transition, state aid to the coal sector, grid expansion and environmental protection in the extra high voltage grid, on the permitting regime for HVDC lines and the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG).
He is chairman of the oil and gas committee of the International Bar Association and on the board of the German-American Lawyers' Association (DAJV) for Düsseldorf. Matthias is listed as top legal practitioner advising on energy law in Euromoney’s 2018 Energy and Best of the Best Expert Guides, the 2017 Who’s Who Legal Energy and the Who’s Who Legal Germany 2017. He frequently speaks at national and international seminars and conferences and teaches post graduate energy law courses at Technische Universität Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin.

Vicente López-Ibor Mayor

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VICENTE LOPEZ-IBOR MAYOR

is Doctor in Law; Master in Business Administration, IDE; Graduate AMP from IESE; Graduate OPM from HBS (Harvard Business School); Alumni of the IVLP; Professor of Law at the Pontifical University of Comillas; Honorary President of the Spanish-American Association VIA-Jefferson Circle of Spain; Member of the Board of Global Ties Foundation; Member of the European Council of the European Federation ENAM.

Former Secretary General and Board Member of UNESA and Chairman of its Legal Committee, and Director General of the FCC Group, listed Spanish company in the field of infrastructures and services.

Former member of the Executive Committee and Legal Groups of EURELECTRIC and UNIPEDE.

Former Commissioner of the National Commission of the Electric System and the National Energy Commission of Spain.

Founding member of the European Council of Energy Regulators (CEER).

Former member of the Expert Group on Public Procurement of the European Commission.

President of the Spanish Association of Energy Law (AEDEN), since its constitution in 2017.

Chairman of the European Federation of Energy Law Associations (EFELA), since its constitution in 2017.

President of the former Energy Regulators Association (Spain).

Member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute for European Studies of the San Pablo-CEU University.

He is President of the International Law Firm, Estudio Jurídico Internacional; and Chairman of Ampere Energy; Chairman of Lightsource Foundation (former Chairman-Founder of Lightsource Renewable Energy Ltd. since its constitution in 2010, the largest British company in the field of Solar P.V. in the European Union).

Author of a large number of legal and energy publications.

 

Michail-Theodore Marinos

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Born in Athens in 1954
Attorney at law and member of the Athens Bar Association since 1979
Education
Areas of Specialization and experience
Business Contracts, Company Law, Competition Law and State Aids, Energy Law Intellectual Property, Arbitration Law (particularly arbitration before the International Chamber of Commerce).
Selected publications
Prof. Dr. Marinos has published a significant number of monographs, handbooks, articles, studies and made numerous contributions to collective works in the fields of competition law, energy and intellectual property law and company law.
Languages
Greek, English, German.

Elisenda Malaret

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Docteur en Droit, Professeure de Droit Administratif, Université de Barcelona
Lignes prioritaire d’expertise: Droit de la régulation économique, Droit de l’audiovisuel, Droit des contrats publics, Droit des services publics, Transparence
Députée à l’Assemblée nationale (Congreso de los Diputados) (2004-2008). Membre du Conseil de l’Audiovisuel de la Catalogne (1 Juillet 2008-15 juillet 2014).
Professeure invitée des universités de Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Institut de Sciences Politiques de Paris, Siena, Roma La Sapienza, Pisa, Firenze, Cattolica di Milano, Pavia et Lyon-Lumière
Publications récentes:
“Buen gobierno, transparencia y rendición de cuentas», RCDP, 2017, 55
“Democracia y regulación de los medios audiovisuales”, en A. BOIX (ed.): La regulación y control sobre contenidos audiovisuales, ed. Aranzadi, 2017
«Finanziamento del sistema elettrico spagnolo», E. Bruti Liberati / M. De Focatiis / A. Travi: Esperienze regolatorie europee a confronto nel settore dell’energia, ed. Wolters Kluwer / AIDEN, Milano 2017
«Des Autorités de Régulation indépendantes et responsables : les enjeux de la transparence», Mélanges en hommage à G. Marcou, Paris, IRJS éditions, 2017
«A vueltas con las garantías de la independencia de las Autoridades de regulación: a propósito de los nombramientos (y cese) y del alcance de su control judicial”, AAVV: Los retos del Estado y la Administración en el siglo XXI, ed. Tirant lo Blanch, València,
“El nuevo reto de la contratación pública para afianzar la integridad y el control: reforzar el profesionalismo y la transparencia”, RDA, Bogotá, 2016
“La regulación audiovisual entre democracia y mercado”, Rivista della regolazione dei mercati, 2015-2,
«L’évolution de la question régionale: quel avenir pour l’État des Autonomies en Espagne ?», en J.C. NÉMÉRY/G. MARCOU (dirs.): Quelle organisation pour les grandes régions en France et en Europe ?, Paris, ed. l’Harmathan, 2015
“Los servicios excluidos del ámbito de aplicación de la legislación de telecomunicaciones: los servicios de la sociedad de la información y los servicios de comunicación audiovisual”, en T. DE LA QUADRA-SALCEDO (dir.): Derecho de las telecomunicaciones, Madrid, ed. Thomson-Aranzadi Reuters, 2015
“Les instances de régulation de l’audiovisuel en Espagne: un paysage institutionnel asymétrique», en S. REGOURD/L. CALANDRI (dirs.): La régulation de la communication audiovisuelle. Enjeux et perspectives, Paris, Institut Universitaire Varenne/LGDJ, 2015,
“Autoridades independientes de regulación y transparencia”, Munus, 2014, nº 3
“Le malaise de la globalisation, la crise économique et les déséquilibres dans la structure des pouvoirs de décision. Pour un constitutionnalisme économique européen ouvert”, European Review of Public Law, 2013, Vol. 25-1


N. Marque Antunes

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Maria Meng-Papantoni

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Maria Meng-Papantoni is Associate Professor of European Business Law at the Panteion University-Athens. She studied law at the Law Faculty of the University of Athens and the University of Pantheon-Assas (Paris II), where she was awarded her PhD in 1995.
She is the author of several books and articles on European and Hellenic economic, energy and corporate law. Her work includes the following monographs:
• L'immixtion dans le droit des sociétés
• Investment advices and portfolio management (in Greek)
• The law of energy. European aspect and Greek implementation (in Greek)
• The services of general economic interest - In the network markets of electronic services, post, energy and public transportation (in Greek)
• The EU internal Market (Art. 26.2 TFEU): free movement of goods, persons, services and capital (co-writer Prof. Dr. H. Tagaras, in Greek)
Professor Meng-Papantoni is a Visiting Professor at the Program of Post Graduate Studies of the Europa-Institut of the University of Saarland-Germany. She was Visiting Scholar at the Institute of International Economic law at Georgetown Law University and was teaching in many Universities around the globe (e.g. Renmin University – Bejing, the Law Faculty of the University of Yunnan – China, the Law Faculty of Wuhan University – China)
Professor Meng-Papantoni is a member of the Athens Bar Association and was legal advisor at the National Bank of Greece till 2016. She is member of numerous professional organizations.

 Education
Université de Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2), France, (PhD, 1995)
Université de Pantheon-Assas (Paris 2), France, (D.E.A. de droit des affaires et droit economique, 1987)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, (Diploma of Law, 1984)

Academic career
Associate Professor of European Business Law at Panteion University, Department of International, European and Areal Studies.
Visiting Professor at the Europa-Institut of the University of Saarland (2009-)
Visiting Professor at Renmin University-Beijing (Summer School 2015)

Specialization/Research Interests
European law, Investment law, Energy law, Public procurement law, Banking law, Corporate law, Commercial law, Arbitration.

Other activities
Legal advisor on legal issues of structure and corporate governance as well as retailing banking at National Bank of Greece (1996-2016)


INDICATIVE LIST OF RECENT LEGAL PUBLICATIONS

The Dispute Settlement Understanding in the WTO, under the light of its 20 years function – An institution under review, in: Tome in honor of Prof. N. Klamaris, 2016, p. 557-571, (in Greek).

Legal aspects of the Memoranda of Understanding in the Greek debt crisis, ZEuS 1/2015, 3-26.

Legal issues on the Investor-State arbitration between the member states in the energy sector, Energy and Law, 2014, p. 52-60, (in Greek).

The services of general economic interest and the universal services in the energy sector: financial crisis and measures, in: Farantouris (ed.), Energy: Networks and infrastructure, Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2014, p. 251-264, (in Greek).

The internal market according to article 26.2 TFEU - Freedom of goods, persons, services, capital (cowriter with Prof. H. Tagaras), Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2013, (in Greek).

The services of general economic interest - In the network markets of Electronic services, Post, Energy and Public transportation of persons, Nomiki bibliothiki, 2013, (in Greek).

Commentary of Articles 288-299 TFEU, in: Christianos (ed.), Commentary of Articles of the TEU and TFEU, Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2012, (in Greek).

The Hellenic Constitutional Law and the Supremacy of European Union Law, in: Meng/Ress/Stein (Hrsg.), Europäische Integration und Globalisierung, Festschrift zum 60-jährigen Bestehen des Europa-Instituts, 2011, p. 347 - 358.


MEMBER OF COMMITTEES, SCIENTIFIC-PROFESIONAL SOCIETIES

Director of the European Center of Economic and Financial Law (ECEFIL).
Member of the review committee of the German legal Journal "Zeitschrift für Europarechtliche Studien" (2014-).
Member of the committee for the codification of the Civil Air Law (2004).
Member of the committee for the codification of the Capital Market Law (1999-2000).
Member of the scientific committee of the Greek legal journal "Law of Companies and Establishments".
Member of the Greek Union of European Law.
Member of the Greek branch of the International Law Association.
Member of the Greek Union of Energy law.
Member of the Association of Greek Commercialists.
Member of the Greek Society of Banking Law and Capital Market Law.

Languages
Greek, English, French, German.

 

Gosia Sadowska

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Gosia Sadowska is a Senior Regulatory Analyst at the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) in Ireland, Electricity Networks and Security of Supply team. Her main focus is network regulation, electricity connection policy, including cross-border interconnectors. Prior to joining the CRU, she was a Research Fellow at the European University Institute, where she worked on the law and economics of energy regulation and competition policy, and coordinated the activities of the EU Energy Law Area at the Florence School of Regulation. Before that, Gosia was a Researcher in EU energy regulation at Tilburg Law & Economics Center, and also worked at the European Commission, DG Competition, and in leading competition and public law firms in Brussels and Cologne.

Gosia holds a PhD in Law and Economics (EDLE, 2013) and Master degrees in Law (University of Gdańsk, 2006) and European Studies (University of Hamburg, 2008). She is the author and editor of well-received books and articles on EU energy regulation and competition enforcement. She is a chairperson of the Energy Law Ireland (ELI) Committee.

Harris Synodinos

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Dr. Harris Synodinos is a holding a Ph.D. and a LL.M of European Law, studies in the Universities of Strasbourg (France) & Athens (Greece), who has worked in private practice, as an external counsel, and in academia. He possesses unique expertise in advisory and litigation work in the fields of energy (especially in respect of regulatory matters), competition, public procurement and expropriation as well as in environmental law. His extensive litigation experience involves the presentation of high net value clients before the Supreme Courts of Greece, the Greek Competition Authority [NCA], Regulatory Authorities, the European Courts (CJEU, EGC, ECHR) and the European Commission.

He is currently the Deputy General Counsel of the Greek Public Power Corporation (PPC), and in this capacity he has, inter alia, actively taken part in a variety of high profile energy law cases involving PPC, which, were referred before the European Court of Justice (CJEU). These, among others, include: Case  C-43/10 in which he represented PPC regarding the diversion of the Aheloos river and the Mesohora’s hydroelectric dam; Cases T-421/09 & T-169/08 (PPC-Commission), which dealt with the exploitation of PPC’s  lignite reserves; and Case T-542/11 (Aluminium v. Commission), which involved an action for the annulment of Commission Decision C(2011) 4916 regarding the alleged granting of State aid through the provision of electricity tariffs, C‑590/14 P (DEI and Commission v Alouminion tis Ellados, referring to Preferential electricity tariff granted by a contract, following a  Judicial suspension of the effects of termination of this contract) etc.

At the same time he is partner in the International Law Firm Rokas from 2016, handling cases of European law (see inter alia, cases referred before the European Court of Justice as cases C-201/15 AGET Iraklis (concerning collective redundancies from a multinational company in Greece coping restrictive national legislation conferring to a Minister the power to oppose on its assessing the conditions in the labour market, the situation of the undertaking and the interests of the national economy), C-555/11 EEAE and Others (dealing about insurance mediation and the query whether it is possible for an employee of an insurance undertaking acting under the responsibility of to pursue insurance mediation activities on an incidental basis) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) cases 55949/13 Heracles S.A. contre la Grèce (11.10.2016). He is also active in the Rokas energy department providing support to big and important clients, lastly acting in the South Kavala Natural Gas Storage of the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (ΤΑΙΠΕΔ).

Dr Synodinos has also participated in Greek law drafting committees (i.e. Laws 3066/02 and 3734/09 concerning the Mesohora’s hydroelectric dam), including the transposition into Greek legal regime of certain EU Directives, such as Directive 2005/89/EC.

In 2003-2005 he was External Legal Counsel in the ATHOC (Organizing Committee of Olympic Games -Athens 2004) in the area of public procurement in the Directorate of Technology.

He has further been heavily involved in academic activities having been invited to teach in various occasions at Panteion University, at the Law Faculty of the University of Athens and at the National Public Administration School and to take part in seminars held by the Centre of European and Financial Law.) Moreover, he has been the editor of the Greek Legal Review Magazine Energy & Law since 2003, he is a member of the editorial commission of the Greek Legal Review Magazine of European Law and a scientific collaborator of the Greek Legal Review Magazine of Administrative Law. In addition, he has authored a number of books and articles dealing with a diverse array of matters spanning several different legal areas, such as energy, competition, public procurement and European environmental law.


Philippe Terneyre

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Je suis professeur agrégé de Droit public à l’Université de Pau et des pays de l’Adour (France) et ancien doyen de la faculté de droit.

A ce titre, je suis un des coresponsables du laboratoire de recherches « Pau Droit Public » qui a pour objet de mener diverses études et recherches en droit public interne et plus particulièrement en droit public des affaires, en droit des contrats publics et en droit de l’énergie.

Dans ce cadre, le laboratoire de recherche organise régulièrement des colloques et journées d’étude sur le droit des contrats publics, sur le droit de l’aménagement et de l’urbanisme, sur le droit des collectivités territoriales et le droit des réseaux et des infrastructures : énergies, eau et assainissement, voieries routières et autoroutières, réseaux ferrés, transports publics urbains, logement, télécommunications, etc.

Dans ce cadre également, je dirige plusieurs thèses dont l’objet est relatif aux mêmes thèmes.

Tous les ans, j’organise à la faculté de droit de Pau une journée qui réunit une quinzaine de conseillers d’Etat de la section du contentieux et une quinzaine de professeur de droit public de toute la France, qui discutent, commentent et critiquent la jurisprudence de l’année.

En tant que professeur d’université, je suis responsable éditorial de l’ouvrage de référence des éditions du Moniteur relatif aux marchés publics et aux contrats publics spéciaux dans lequel j’ai rédigé les chapitres relatifs aux risques de construction dans les marchés et concessions de travaux publics et aux garanties post-contractuelles ; je dirige la revue « Bulletin juridique des contrats publics » ; je suis le co-auteur du Lamy droit public des affaires, dont une édition nouvelle paraît chaque année. En outre, je fais partie du comité de rédaction de la revue française de droit administratif, et je suis un des membres de la commission supérieure de codification (organisme rattaché auprès du Premier ministre).

Par ailleurs, je suis maintenant, depuis près de vingt ans, consultant, arbitre et conciliateur auprès de collectivités publiques, entreprises privées, organismes professionnels et cabinets d’avocats dans le domaine du droit des contrats publics, des propriétés et des infrastructures publiques, de l’aménagement de l’urbanisme et de l’environnement, du droit des collectivités territoriales et du droit des réseaux, notamment énergétiques.

Enfin, je suis le responsable du consortium « Pau Droit Energie » qui réunit des industriels et des autorités publiques pour des projets communs en matière de droit de l’énergie ; je suis le vice-président de l’Association française de droit de l’énergie (AFDEN) et je suis le président du Comité scientifique de the European federation of energy law associations (EFELA).

Aldo Travi

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Henrik Bjørnebye

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Henrik Bjørnebye is a Professor at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo, where he is head of the Department of Petroleum and Energy Law. In 2018-2019, he is a Visiting Fellow at the Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute.

Bjørnebye specializes in energy law (particularly renewable energy sources and electricity markets) and EU law. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Oslo with the thesis Investing in EU energy security (published on Kluwer Law International (2010)). Bjørnebye has published a large number of articles, has broad consultancy experience and is a regular speaker at national and international conferences. He formerly worked as an attorney advising clients within the energy sector.

Ilaria Espa

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Ilaria Espa is assistant professor of international economic law at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), senior research fellow at the World Trade Institute (WTI) and adjunct professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Formerly awarded a Marie Curie fellowship from the European Commission for her post-doctoral studies, Ilaria was a member of the WTI-based NCCR Trade Regulation Programme until its expiration in 2017. Ilaria holds a PhD in international law and economics from the Department of Legal Studies of Bocconi University and was a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School in 2012. She has published extensively in leading international peer-reviewed journals on issues at the interface between international trade and sustainability, with a focus on climate change, energy and commodities. She is the author of a monograph on Export Restrictions on Critical Minerals and Metals: Testing the Adequacy of WTO Disciplines (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and co-editor of the volume International Trade in Sustainable Electricity: Regulatory Challenges in International Economic law (Cambridge University Press, 2017).


Nikolaos Koulouris

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Α.STUDIES
- Undergraduate Law Degree obtained from the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University in Athens (GR) (1984)
- Postgraduate Law Degree (LLM – Master) obtained from the School of Law of the University of Law, Economy and Social Sciences PARIS – II (Pantheon – Sorbonne) (Diplome des Etudes Approfondies – D.E.A. in the field of Procedural Law) (1987)
- PhD in Law Degree obtained from the Law School of the University of Law, Economy and Social Sciences PARIS – II (Pantheon – Sorbonne)(1992)  Title of the PhD thesis :  “The Independent Regulatory Agencies :  Comparative study of the relevant institution in France and U.S.A.”

B. SCHOLARSHIPS
- Greek Foundation for State Scholarships - ΙΚΥ (1980)                                                    
- Council of Europe (1989)

C. SPEAKING LANGUAGES
- English                                                                                                                 
- French
- Greek

D. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Solicitor, member of the Athens Bar Association  (since 1986)
- Scientific Collaborator of the Greek National Radio and Television Council (1992-1993) Providing legal services to the organization                                                                                                                        
- Legal Advisor of the Greek National Telecommunications Commission (1993-1995) Providing legal services to the organization
- Member of the Greek National Radio and Television Council (ΕΣΡ) (1997-2002)         Acting as state regulator of the radio and television market (elaborating and enacting regulations, dissolving disputes and imposing fines)                                                  
- Vice President of the Greek National Telecommunications and Post Commission (ΕΕΤΤ)  (2005-2009)    Managing the staff of the organization, Replenish its President and Acting as state regulator of the telecommunications and post market                                                                                                       
- Assistant Professor of the School of Law of the European University of Cyprus (2012-today) Teaching public law and energy law to both the undergraduate and postgraduate students
- Legal Collaborator of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (2018 – 2019)  Providing legal services to the organization.
- General Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Energy (IRCE) (based in Nicosia, Cyprus) (2019 – today) (deke-irce.eu)

E. ADDITIONAL NOTES
- During the period of practicing of his legal job (over 20 years), he was Partner or Senior Partner of a number of major Greek and  Cypriot law firms (Kremmidas, Doris and Partners, Pagoulatos and Partners, Ikonomopoulos and Partners, Andreas Angelidis Law Firm).
- During the year 2020, he was external legal collaborator of the based in London law firm Tuckers Solicitors LLC.  
- His scientific and professional specialization is in the field of general public law and commercial law and more specifically in the field of public contract law, commercial contract law, electronic communications law, data protection law, intellectual property law, energy law, international commercial arbitration, companies law  and tax law.  
- He has served for a long period of time (about 10 years) as state regulator of sensitive sectors of Greek economy.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY


FULL MEMBERS

FOUNDING MEMBERS


France

AFDEN

Spain

AEDEN

Greece

HAEL

United Kingdom

UKELPA

Italy

AIDEN

Portugal

APDEN

MEMBERS


IRELAND

ELI

NORWAY

Norsk forening for energirett

SERBIA

UPES

SWITZERLAND

SWISS ENERGY LAW ASSOCIATION

CYPRUS

Cypriot Association of Energy Law

LUXEMBOURG

ALJDE

OBSERVING MEMBERS


GERMANY

Dr. Matthias Lang

AUSTRIA

DR. BERND RAJAL

Hungary

Prof. Dr. Róbert Szuchy