Edmar de Almeida

IAEE President 2025, Professor, Pontifical Catholic University, Brazil

Prof. Edmar de Almeida is a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and researcher at PUC-Rio’s Energy Institute. Since 1993, he has taught undergraduate, graduate, and MBA courses focused on the energy sector. He also serves as a Non-Executive Board Member at Galp Energia, Portugal.

His research covers industrial organization, energy policy, regulation, and technological innovation. He has advised governments, companies, and investors on energy policy and market development.

Prof. Almeida holds a degree in Economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1992), a Master’s in Industrial Economics (1994), and a PhD in Applied Economics from Grenoble University, France (1999). He has authored multiple books and academic papers and frequently speaks at international conferences.

Amy Myers Jaffe

Professor, School of Professional Studies, New York University, USA

Amy Myers Jaffe serves as Director of the Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab at New York University’s School of Professional Studies and is a research professor who teaches graduate-level courses examining global climate finance, clean technology innovation and business, and energy and climate justice. A leading expert on global energy policy, sustainability, and geopolitical risk, Jaffe is author of several books, including her most recent book, “Energy’s Digital Future” published in 2021 by Columbia University Press. Ms. Jaffe is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University and a regular contributor to the popular podcast “The Energy Gang.” From 2014 to 2017, Ms. Jaffe served as senior advisor on sustainability to the Office of the Chief Investment Officer of the University of California, Regents, where she helped design the sustainable investing framework for the UC’s $140 billion pension and endowment funds.

Fatih Birol

Executive Director - International Energy Agency

Dr. Fatih Birol has been the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) since 2015, leading its modernization efforts by expanding membership to major emerging economies and broadening its mandate to include natural gas, electricity, and clean energy. Before this role, he spent over 20 years at the IEA, serving as Chief Economist and leading the World Energy Outlook. Dr. Birol also chairs the IEA Energy Business Council and the World Economic Forum’s Energy Advisory Board. He has been recognized by Forbes as a top energy influencer and has received numerous international honors.

Christian Gollier

Professor, Toulouse School of Economics, France

Christian Gollier is a renowned economist specializing in uncertainty, environmental economics, and finance. He co-founded and directs the Toulouse School of Economics Foundation and is Director of TSE. Gollier has authored over 130 articles and seven books, including the award-winning The Economics of Risk and Time and Pricing the Planet's Future. A contributor to IPCC reports, he advises governments on ecological transitions. He is a past-president of EAERE and has held a Collège de France chair. His public-focused book Le Climat après la fin du mois highlights climate action urgency.

Stéphane Michel

President Gas, Renewables & Power, TotalEnergies

Stéphane Michel (born February 17, 1973, French nationality) has been a member of the Executive Committee since March 1, 2021. A graduate of École Polytechnique (1994) and École des Mines de Paris (1997), he is a Chief Engineer of the Corps des Mines.

From 2002 to 2004, he served as Technical Advisor for Energy to the French Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry. He joined TotalEnergies in 2005 as Head of Development for the Refining & Marketing division in the Asia-Pacific region, based in Singapore.

In 2008, he became Joint Venture and Business Development Manager at Total E&P Qatar, then Managing Director of Total E&P Libya in 2010. In 2011, he was appointed Managing Director of Total E&P Qatar, and on April 1, 2014, he became Director for the Middle East & North Africa and a member of the Exploration & Production branch’s Management Committee.

Since March 1, 2021, Stéphane Michel has been General Director of Gas, Renewables & Power and a member of the Executive Committee.

Aude Pommeret

Professor, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, France

Aude Pommeret, who holds a PhD from Paris I, is a professor of economics at Université Savoie Mont Blanc. She previously held positions at HEC Lausanne and City University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on environmental and energy economics, with a recent emphasis on the energy transition.

Since 2018, she has been a scientific advisor at France Stratégie, contributing to studies on the value of climate action (Quinet commission), abatement costs (Criqui commission), and the economic impact of climate policies (Pisani-Ferry-Mahfouz commission).

She is also a member of the expert committee on socio-economic analysis, which sets the discount rate for public investment evaluation, the board of the Institute of Mathematics for Planet Earth, and the advisory council of the TSE Center for Climate and Energy. Additionally, she directs the European Master in Business and Management across four countries (France, Italy, Germany, and Spain).

Aude Pommeret is an associate editor of the European Economic Review and co-editor of Resource and Energy Economics.

Ying Fan

Professor, Beihang University, China

Prof. Ying Fan earned her Ph.D. in System Engineering and spent 25 years at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) before joining Beihang University in 2015, where she is now Dean of the School of Economics and Management and directs the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP). She has served as Vice President for Academic Affairs of the IAEE and held positions at Cornell and KAPSARC.

Prof. Fan has led over 60 research projects, published 300+ papers, and focuses on energy economics, climate change, and environmental policy. She has received several major awards, including the Yangtze River Scholar and CAS Hundred Talents Program.

Katheline Schubert

Professor Paris School of Economics, France

Katheline Schubert is a Professor at University Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris School of Economics. She graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris and earned her PhD in economics from University Paris 1. She serves on the French High Council for Climate and the French Economic Council for Sustainable Development, and was past-president of the French Economic Association.

Her research focuses on environmental economics, natural resources, dynamic macroeconomics, and sustainable growth, with recent work on climate economics and energy transition. She has published in journals including the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Energy Journal, Journal of Economic Theory, and European Economic Review.

Mark Jaccard

Professor Simon Fraser University, Canada

Mark Jaccard is a climate change expert and professor at Simon Fraser University's School of Resource and Environmental Management since 1986. He leads the Energy and Materials Research Group (EMRG) and the Canadian Industrial Energy End-use Data and Analysis Centre (CIEEDAC).

He served as Chair and CEO of the BC Utilities Commission (1992-1997) and was appointed to the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy in 2006. He has also contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Global Energy Assessment.

He has received multiple honors, including the SFU President’s Award for Media and the Sterling Prize for Controversy. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Grenoble and degrees from Simon Fraser University.

Anna Creti

Professor, University Paris-Dauphine, France

Anna Creti holds a PhD from the Toulouse School of Economics and a post-doc from the London School of Economics. She has previously worked at the Toulouse School of Economics, Bocconi University, the University of Nanterre and has visited the University of California Santa Barbara and Berkeley. She has also studied in depth competition and utility regulation in Europe, and the link between energy, climate and environmental regulation. She is now full professor at Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL, Director of the Climate Economics Chair (Un. Dauphine) and Associate Director of the Economics of Gas Chair (U Dauphine, Toulouse School of Economics, IFPEN, Ecole des Mines)

Anna Alberini

Professor, University of Maryland, USA

Anna Alberini holds a PhD in economics from the University of California, San Diego, and is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics at UMD. She teaches PhD-level econometrics and an undergraduate course on climate change economics, while supervising graduate and undergraduate research. As an energy and environmental economist, her work centers on residential energy demand, energy efficiency, and policies influencing these areas, as well as vehicle fuel economy. She is an editor of Energy Economics, serves on the boards of The Energy Journal and Energy Policy, and has advised the US Energy Information Administration and EPA.

Stuti Khema

Senior Economist, The World Bank

Stuti Khemani, a Senior Economist at the World Bank's Development Research Group, specializes in the political economy of public policy and institutional reforms for development. With a PhD from MIT, her research has been featured in top journals like American Economic Journal and American Political Science Review. She authored the Policy Research Report Making Politics Work for Development and focuses on designing governance interventions to strengthen state capacity. Her work spans countries such as India, Nigeria, and Tanzania.

Professor Catherine Wolfram

MIT Sloan

Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy and Applied Economics at MIT Sloan. From March 2021 to October 2022, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the U.S. Treasury. Before that, she directed the Environment and Energy Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Wolfram has researched energy markets, including rural electrification, energy efficiency, and environmental regulation. She’s currently focused on the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) and climate-related trade issues.

She holds a PhD from MIT and an AB from Harvard.

Christian Zinglersen

Director of the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators

Christian Zinglersen is the Director of the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), a role he began in January 2020. Previously, he served as Head of the Clean Energy Ministerial Secretariat at the International Energy Agency (IEA) and as Deputy Permanent Secretary at Denmark’s Ministry of Energy, Utilities, and Climate. He also represented Denmark in global climate negotiations, including its EU Council Presidency in 2012. Zinglersen has extensive experience in energy policy and international cooperation.

Xavier Ursat

Executive Director, Direction of Strategy, Technologies, Innovation and Development, EDF

Xavier Ursat joined EDF in 1991, where he first held various positions in hydraulic engineering until 2002. Among his responsibilities, he was in charge of implementing EDF hydropower command centers and took part in international projects, mainly in South America

From 2002 to 2005, he was an advisor to the EDF's Executive Vice-President in charge of Generation and Engineering.

In 2005, he was Deputy Director of the Alpes generation entity in Grenoble and in 2010, Director of the generation entity in Toulouse. Between 2010 and 2015, he was Deputy Director and subsequently Managing Director of the Hydro Generation and Engineering Division. In 2015, Xavier Ursat was EDF Group Senior Executive Vice-President, New Nuclear Projects and Engineering. In April 2024, he has been nominated EDF Group Senior Executive Vice-President in charge of Innovation, Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategy.

Chairman of the Strategic Committee for the French Nuclear Sector (CSFN) and of the French Nuclear Energy Industry Organization (GIFEN), Xavier Ursat has also been President of Nuclear Europe since January 2025. Xavier Ursat is also the Chairman of the Edvance Supervisory and Orientation Committee and a member of the Framatome Supervisory Board. He is also the Honorary Governor of the World Water Council.

Xavier Ursat is a graduate of École Polytechnique and Telecom Paris.

Olivier Massol

Professor, University Paris-Saclay, France

Born in 1978, Olivier Massol is a Full Professor of Economics at CentraleSupélec and Head of the Energy Transition Program at the Climate Economics Chair. He is also a non-resident research fellow at City, University of London.

With 25 years of experience in energy economics, his research focuses on energy systems, infrastructure regulation, and technology policy (e.g., CCUS, hydrogen). Before joining CentraleSupélec in 2024, he was a faculty member at IFP School (2007-2024) and previously worked as an economist in the utility sector.

Olivier holds a PhD in Economics (City, University of London), an HDR (Paris-Dauphine), and degrees in engineering and energy economics. He was knighted “Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques” in 2003.

He also serves as Executive Director of "The Economics of Gases" Chair, Vice-Chairman of the 2025 IAEE International Conference in Paris, and a council member of the French Association of Energy Economics.

Christian Von Hirschhausen

Professor, Berlin University of Technology, Germany.

Hirschhausen studied economics in Boulder (Colorado) and industrial engineering in Berlin and earned his doctorate in business administration with a focus on the privatization of Eastern European conglomerates from École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris in 1995. From 1997 to 2004, he worked as a research associate in the World Economy Department of DIW Berlin, habilitating in 2002 at the Technical University of Berlin, where he led the Economics and Infrastructure Policy (WIP) department from 2002 to 2004. In the winter semester of 2004/2005, Christian von Hirschhausen accepted a position at the Technical University of Dresden as the holder of the DREWAG Chair in Energy Economics. He soon accepted an offer to return to TU Berlin and has been leading the Economics and Infrastructure Policy department again since April 2009. Additionally, he has been the chairman of the Joint Commission for Industrial Engineering at TU Berlin since June 2009.

Marie-Claire Aoun

Director of Strategy and institutional relationships, TEREGA, France

Marie-Claire Aoun is Director of Strategy and Institutional Relations at Teréga, a gas transmission and storage operator in France. She is also leading the project of future interconnection between France and Spain on hydrogen (H2med/Barmar) for Teréga. Holding a PhD in Economics from Paris Dauphine University (2008), Marie-Claire Aoun served previously as a Policy officer for the French energy regulator (CRE) between 2008 and 2014, and was the Director of the Center for Energy and Climate at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) between 2014 and 2017.

Marie-Claire Aoun was also a lecturer specialized in Geopolitics of energy at Paris Dauphine University between 2010 and 2024 and at Sciences Po Paris between 2020 and 2024. She was also the Chair of the European consortium Gas for Climate between 2021 and 2024.

Yannick Perez

Professor, University Paris-Saclay, France

Born in 1971, Yannick Perez has been a Full Professor of Economics at CentraleSupélec since 2019. He earned his Master's and PhD in Economics from La Sorbonne and previously taught at University de Cergy and University Paris-Sud.

He was Chief Economic Advisor at the Loyola de Palacio Chair on European Energy Policy (2008-2023) and Senior Research Fellow at the Armand Peugeot Research Chair on Electromobility (2012-2023). His research focuses on market design, energy economics, and electricity markets, advising companies like EDF, Areva, and the World Bank.

At CentraleSupélec, he heads the Master’s program EEET-ETM. He has supervised 15 PhD theses and is currently mentoring five doctoral students.

Michael Caramaris

Professor, Boston University, USA

Michael Caramanis (BS Stanford, MS and PhD Harvard) is a Professor of Mechanical and Systems Engineering at Boston University. He has served on the Greek National Energy Council, the MIT Energy Laboratory, and was chair of the Greek Regulatory Authority for Energy. His research focuses on real-time electric power markets and Smart Grid systems, aiming to enhance distributed energy management and integrate sustainable technologies like wind power, distributed storage, and electric vehicles. He has led numerous research projects and co-authored Spot Pricing of Electricity (1988).

Ricardo Raineri

Professor, Pontifical Catholic University, former energy Minister, Chile

He is the President of the International Association for Energy Economics and a former Chilean Energy Minister. He has chaired the Chilean State Oil Company (ENAP) and overseen various energy and regulatory agencies. He was also a Council Member for the State Enterprises System and a Board member at Schwager Energy, leading its ethics committee. Previously, he served as Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank and is a professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He specializes in energy transition, regulation, and market structure, and holds degrees in Business Engineering, Economics, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is published in academic journals and regularly consulted as an industry expert.

Laurens de Vries

Professor, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Ir. Laurens de Vries is a Full Professor of Complex Energy Transitions at Delft University of Technology, specializing in energy market design and systems integration. He coordinates the Energy Systems Integration Program of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) and is funded by EBN for his role (2022–2026). His work includes projects on renewable electricity market design (TradeRES) and flexibility markets (DEMOSES). Prof. De Vries holds degrees in mechanical engineering and environmental economics and earned his doctorate at TU Delft on electricity generation adequacy.

Chloé Le Coq

Professor, University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France

Chloé Le Coq is Professor of Economics at Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas (CRED) and Research Fellow at the Stockholm School of Economics (SITE). She is a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board DIW Berlin and a Member of the Scientific Committee Chair ETI LAB -Mines Paris (since 2022). She is involved in the university incubator AssasLab. She has held visiting positions at Purdue University, the University of California Energy Institute at Berkeley, and the National University of Singapore. Her research investigates topics related to antitrust policy, industrial organization, and behavioral economics, with a particular focus on energy markets and social innovation. Her recent work includes empirical studies on cartel formation, information structure in electricity markets, and experimental studies of social entrepreneurs.

Chiara Lo Prete

Professor, Penn State University, USA

Chiara Lo Prete is an associate professor of energy economics at Penn State University, specializing in electricity and natural gas market design, energy security, and environmental regulations. She develops mathematical models and applies empirical methods to study topics like grid reliability, wind energy integration, and the geopolitics of energy. Since 2021, she has also served as associate head of diversity, equity, and inclusion in her department, contributing to an inclusive academic environment.

Paul Joskow

Professor MIT, USA

Paul Joskow is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT and President Emeritus of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. A faculty member since 1972, he has held leadership roles including head of MIT's Economics Department and director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. His research focuses on industrial organization, energy and environmental economics, and competition policy. Joskow is a distinguished fellow of multiple economic societies and has served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards, including Exelon Corporation and the Whitehead Institute.

Thomas Veyrenc

Member of the Executive Board, Managing Director in charge of Economy, Strategy and Finance, RTE, France

Thomas Veyrenc had been senior advisor to the executive board of RTE, the French transmission system operator for electricity, since 2008. He joined RTE in 2006 at market design analyst. Previous experience includes the European Commission (2005-2006, Directorate-General for Energy and Transports). Thomas graduated from Supélec in 2004. He holds a MSc from University College London (2004, with distinctions) and from the French Institute for Political Studies (Sciences-Po Paris, 2006, summa cum laude), majoring in European affairs. Each semester, he gives lectures in energy and economics at Supélec and the French Institute for Political Studies.

Fahad Alajlan

President at KAPSARC

Fahad Alajlan became president of the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) in August 2021. Before KAPSARC, he was director of the Hydrocarbon Sustainability Program at the Ministry of Energy, focusing on long-term energy trends and global oil and gas demand. He also oversees the Circular Carbon Economy National Program, aimed at managing emissions while advancing the Kingdom’s socio-economic goals.

Fahad has also advised on energy markets and policy at Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Economy and Planning and spent over 15 years at Saudi Aramco in senior roles in operations, corporate strategy, and investment planning. He holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Vibha Dhawan

Director General , The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

Dr. Vibha Dhawan has been with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) since 1985 and served as Vice-Chancellor of TERI School of Advanced Studies from 2005-2007. A Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, she is engaged in research and policy development, working with organizations like the Department of Biotechnology and BIRAC. She also holds an adjunct professorship at Michigan State University.

Her achievements include establishing the Micropropagation Technology Park at TERI and coordinating the DBT-TERI Centre on Advanced Biofuels. Dr. Dhawan has held key advisory roles internationally and has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Indian Women Achievers Sammaan 2017.

Ujjayant Chakravorty

Professor, Tufts University, USA

Ujjayant Chakravorty is a Professor of Economics at Tufts University and Fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics and CESifo. He co-edits the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. His research focuses on fossil fuels, clean energy, and water resources, with current work on electricity in rural India, groundwater markets, biofuel mandates, and deforestation. He has taught at the University of Alberta, Emory University, and the University of Hawaii. His research has appeared in top journals, and he holds a PhD in Resource and Environmental Economics from the University of Hawaii.

Peter Hartley

Professor, Rice University, USA

Peter R. Hartley, Ph.D., is the George A. Peterkin Professor of Economics at Rice University. He is also a Rice Scholar of Energy Economics at the Baker Institute. He has worked on energy economics issues for 35 years, focusing originally on electricity, but also including work on natural gas, oil, coal, nuclear and renewable energy. He has also published in other areas including theoretical and applied issues in money and banking, business cycles, and international finance.

He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University before coming to Rice. Originally from Australia, he has also held visiting appointments at Monash University, Melbourne University, the Australian National University and the University of Western Australia.

Gürkan Kumbaroğlu

Professor, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Professor Kumbaroğlu holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. He has been a visiting researcher at ETH Zurich, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and several universities worldwide.

He received Turkey’s first Energy Oscar for Scientific Contribution to Energy Markets (2011) and the Visiting Professorship Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012).

An Editorial Board member of multiple journals, he has published extensively on energy and environmental policy. He is the Founding President of EED and President-Elect of IAEE.

Aaron Praktiknjo

Aachen University, Germany

Aaron Praktiknjo holds the Chair for Energy Systems Economics at the interdisciplinary E.ON Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University. The focus of his activities are the interfaces between energy economics, energy policy, and energy technology around an affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy system. Aaron Praktiknjo is President of the German Association for Energy Sciences and Energy Policy (GEE) and Vize President of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE). Together with Peter Zweifel and Georg Erdmann, he is co-author of the textbook "Energy Economics - Theory and Application".

Christophe Bonnery

Program Director at Paris School of Economics, France

Christophe Bonnery has served as President of the French Association for Energy Economics since 2009 (www.faee.fr). In 2019, he was elected President of the International Association for Energy Economics (www.iaee.org). Currently, he is Program Director at the Paris School of Economics (www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu). His previous roles include Vice President of Economics & Prospective at Enedis, the French power distribution company, and Vice President of Energy Policy at the AREVA Group, where he worked on shaping energy policy and advocating for balanced stakeholder approaches. He initiated the French Circle of Energy Economists to strengthen the link between academic energy economics and policy makers. He also established the Marcel Boiteux Award, which honors the best book in energy economics. In addition, he led a program exploring synergies between the nuclear and oil industries for heavy oil production..

Mr. Bonnery received his M.Sc in General Engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France, and MBA in Petroleum Economics and Management from the Center for Economics and Management, IFP School, Paris, France.

His former affiliations include: Head of the Economics Department, NUSYS consulting company, Paris, France; Project-consultant, Shell, Paris, France; Research Assistant, Economic and Industrial Research Division, University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Christophe Bonnery has been awarded the Knighthood of the National Order of Merit.