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• CHAIRMAN: Jesper Grolin, Executive Director, e-Parliament/Climate Parliament
• Yvonne Fredriksson Director-General Energy market Inspectorate
• Cathy Mannion Director Electricity Networks and Retail Commission for Energy Regulation, Ireland (CER)
• Antonella Battaglini European Renewable Grid Initiative
• Lewis Dale Regulatory Strategy Manager National Grid
• Peter Bedson Managing Director IPA Economics
• NEW Lawrence Jones Director, Strategy & Business Development, The Americas Areva T&D
• NEW Matt Haag Chief Operating Officer Aquamarine Power
• Peter Plug Director Office of Energy Regulation (DTe) Netherlands
• David De Jager Managing Consultant Ecofys Netherlands
• Frans Nieuwenhout Senior consultant ECN - Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands
• Martin Scheepers Programme manager "Intelligent Energy Grids" ECN - Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands
• NEW Ingo Schönberg CEO PPC
• Guy Vekemans Project developer Smart Grids VITO
• Maher Chebbo Vice President of Utilities Industry for EMEA SAP
• Venizelos Efthymiou Network Development Projects Manager Electricity Authority of Cyprus
• Tahir Kapetanovic Director Electricity Energie-Control Austria
• Goran Strbac Professor of Electrical Energy Systems Imperial College London
• Jon Sagen Senior adviser, Energy and Regulation Department Norwegian Energy Directorate (NVE)
  
• Urban Keussen Member of the Executive Board E-On Netz, GmbH
  
• Siobhan Carty Regulatory Economist, European Strategy and Environment Ofgem
  
• Stephen Woodhouse Pöyry Energy Consulting
  
• Guy Nicholson Strategy Senergy Econnect
  
• Mereille Schreurs KEMA (NL)
  
• Francois Nguyen Senior Policy Advisor International Energy Agency
• NEW Joe Corbett Mainstream Renewable Power
  

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Tahir Kapetanovic
Director Electricity
Energie-Control Austria

Tahir Kapetanovic is Director Electricity at the Austrian Energy Regulatory Authority E-Control since 2001 (www.e-control.at). He is also the co-chair of the ERGEG Electricity Network & Market TF, and the CEER Electricity Security of Supply TF (www.energy-regulators.eu). In the EU Technology Platform Smart Grids he is a member of the Advisory Council and the chair of the WG Network Operations since 2005 (www.smartgrids.eu). Before E-Control, he spent ten years on different assignments in the industry, several years in academic research and lectured in power systems, security of supply and energy management, at the University of Zagreb, Imperial College of London and Vienna University of Technology. He holds Dipl.-Ing., MSc and PhD in Energy and Power Systems. He is author of numerous publications and lectures regularly at the Austrian and international conferences.

Dr. Venizelos Efthymiou
Network Development Projects Manager
Electricity Authority of Cyprus

Dr Venizelos Efthymiou is a holder of the UMIST university degrees: BSc in Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Master of Science (MSc) in Power Systems and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Ferroresonance of Transmission Lines and Transformers. Dr Venizelos Efthymiou joined the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) in March 1979 and he currently holds the post of Network Development Projects Manager.

As far as his involvement in subjects related to the electricity industry and the European Union, he is a member of the Advisory Council of the Technology Platform for the Electricity Networks of the Future (TPE) SmartGrids set up by the European Commission, a substitute member of the Board of Directors of EURELECTRIC and a member of the Networks Committee of EURELECTRIC. Through his extensive experience both within EAC, EURELECTRIC and TPE SmartGrids he is a writer of many reports of technical content and related publications in international conference proceedings and magazines.

Ronnie Belmans
Chairman
ELIA Group

Ronnie J.M.Belmans (S’77-M’84-SM’89-F’05) received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1979 and the Ph.D. in 1984, both from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, the special Doctorate in 1989 and the Habilitierung in 1993, both from the RWTH Aachen, Germany.

Currently, he is a full professor with the K.U. Leuven, teaching electrical energy systems including electrical machines. His research interests include electrical energy transmission systems and the implications of the liberalised market, renewable energy systems, distributed power and storage. He was the director of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Vibrations and Audible Noise in Alternating Current Machines (August 1986). He was with the Laboratory for Electrical Machines of the RWTH Aachen, Germany, as a Von Humboldt Fellow (October 1988-September 1989). From October 1989 to September 1990, he was visiting professor at the McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. He obtained the chair of the Anglo-Belgian Society at the London University for the year 1995-1996. He is visiting professor at Imperial College, London. Since June 2002 he is chairman of the board of directors of Elia, the Belgian transmission grid operator.

Dr. Belmans is a member of the IEE (U.K.), the International Compumag Society and the Koninklijke Vlaamse Ingenieursvereniging (KVIV).  From 1 January 2005 he has been elected to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE.

Ludwig Karg,
Head of Accompanying Research E-Energy,
B.A.U.M Consult GmbH (TBC)

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Martin Crouch

Director -European Strategy and Environment

OFGEM

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Guy Nicholson
Chief Executive
Senergy E-Connect

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