Jorge Vasconcelos is Chairman of NEWES, New Energy Solutions, a company acting in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency in Europe. Consultant to several international organisations and national authorities. Invited Professor at the Technical University of Lisbon. Alternate member of the Administrative Board of ACER nominated by the European Parliament.

First chairman of the Portuguese Energy Regulatory Authority. Founder and first chairman of the Council of European Energy Regulators. First chairman of the European Regulators’ Group for Electricity and Gas. Co-founder of the Ibero-American Association of Energy Regulatory Authorities. Founder and member of the Executive Committee of the Florence School of Regulation. Member of several national and international advisory committees on energy matters, including the 2011 EC Advisory Committee on the Energy Roadmap 2050. He graduated in power systems from Porto University and got the Dr.-Ing. degree from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Ian is a Project Manager of the FSR and works with the team on all externally funded projects.

Since graduating, he has worked at three of the former UK Research Councils (ESRC, AHRC and STFC), now UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), as programme manager for a wide range of national and international funding schemes. He subsequently worked at the UK’s liaison office for European funding programmes in Brussels, the UK Research Office (UKRO), for more than four years. He joined the EUI in March 2018 initially working on the 2018 and 2019 editions of the Institute’s largest annual conference, The State of the Union, before joining the RSCAS and FSR in October 2019.

Andris Piebalgs is a Professor at the European University Institute and serves as the Chairman of the Implementation Committee of the International Methane Emissions Observatory. With a distinguished career in public service, Piebalgs previously held key roles as the European Union Commissioner for Energy and later as the Commissioner for Development. He was instrumental in shaping the EU’s renewable energy and energy efficiency policies, significantly contributing to the establishment of the European energy market. Before his work with the European Union, Piebalgs was a prominent Latvian politician and diplomat. As Latvia’s Ambassador to the EU, he played a pivotal role in facilitating Latvia’s accession to the European Union.

Carlos Batlle is Associate Professor at Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid, part-time Professor of the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) and Research Affiliate of MIT CEEPR.

At Comillas he teaches Energy Economics and Electric Power Systems Regulation, and he is also member of the Institute for Research in Technology, where he leads research projects and supervises PhD and master dissertations.

At the FSR, an institution under the aegis of the European University in Florence, he is member of the Training Program for European Energy Regulators and (among other courses) Director of the FSR Annual Training on the Regulation of Energy Utilities.

From 2011 to 2024 he served at the MIT Energy Initiative and the MIT Sloan School of Management, teaching the course entitled “Engineering, Economics and Regulation of the Electric Power Sector” and also leading research projects and supervising master and PhD thesis.

He has worked and lectured extensively on electric power systems regulation, with special focus on markets and end-user rate design. He has also a vast experience on the operation, planning, and risk management modeling of electricity generation. He has rendered consulting services for (mainly) governments and international regulatory institutions in over 30 countries. He has published over 40 papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings and authored 10 book chapters.

He is also member of the Advisory Academic Panel of Ofgem, the UK energy National Regulatory Authority.

Dr Adrien de Hauteclocque is the Head of Cabinet of the President of the General Court of the European Union and a non-governmental adviser to the French Competition Authority in the context of the International Competition Network (ICN).

On the academic front, he is a Part-time Professor at the Florence School of Regulation (European University Institute) and an associated researcher at Chaire Gouvernance et Régulation, Université Paris-Dauphine. His research interests include EU competition and state aid law, competition policy in network industries and the law & economics of energy regulation. Before moving to the EU institutions, he pursued his academic career at the University of Manchester and at the European University Institute where he co-founded the “EU Energy Union Law” Area of the Florence School of Regulation. He is a regular speaker at international conferences and has published numerous books, academic articles and book chapters in the last 15 years. He serves as a member of the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) Training Advisory Board and holds regular teaching commitments for the CEER Legal Task Force and, as an invited Professor, HEC Paris (France).

Dr de Hauteclocque obtained his PhD in Law from the University of Manchester (UK) and holds a MSc in Management from EM Lyon (France) and a MSc in Economic Policy from Strathclyde University (UK).

Yannick Perez was born in 1971 and took his master’s degree and PhD in economics at University La Sorbonne in France. He became an assistant professor at Cergy University (2000-2003) and a tenured associate professor of Economics at the University Paris-Sud (From 2003 to 2019). From October 2008 to September 2020, he is the chief economic advisor of the Loyola de Palacio Chair on European Energy Policy at the RSCAS – EUI. Since 2012, he joined and then co-led the Armand Peugeot research chair on Electromobility (ESSEC Business School – CentraleSupélec).

Since September 2019, he is a Full Professor of Economics at CentraleSupélec – University Paris Saclay. He is also an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation journal.

Since the last 20 years, Yannick Perez has published more than 90 articles and book chapters in Energy related topics including contributions in Applied Energy, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Ecological Economics and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review.

At the Florence School of Regulation, he is the Head of the Electromobility unit and a Part-Time Professor.

James Kneebone is an Affiliated Researcher at the Florence School of Regulation for the ‘Molecules and Materials’ area. He is a specialist in European hydrogen policy and the broader design of energy policy. James’s recent publications have covered infrastructure planning for hydrogen transportation and financing mechanisms for hydrogen, whilst his current work increasingly focuses on the evolution of the European energy policy paradigm. Prior to joining the FSR, James worked in DG ENER of the European Commission, where his primary areas of work were security of energy supply and the EU Methane Strategy.

James is also a PhD researcher at ETH Zürich in the Group for Sustainability and Technology (D-MTEC). He holds an MSc in International Development from Utrecht University and a BSc in Liberal Arts and Sciences from University College Maastricht. James also has ethnographic fieldwork experience from Havana, Cuba, and will conduct fieldwork in Germany during 2026 as part of a scholarship with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Lucila de Almeida is Part-time Professor at the European University, being affiliated to the Florence School of Regulation at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies since 2020. At EUI/RSCAS/FSR, Lucila has taken on the role of principal investigator or task leader in several externally funded major research projects, including the European Commission (2025, EC Study on Consumer rights and protection in innovative energy services), Horizon Europe (2024-2028, U2Demo – Use of open-source P2P energy sharing platforms for energy democratisation), the International Energy Agency (2019-2025, UserTCP Global Observatory on P2P, Community Self-consumption, and Transactive Energy Models). Besides the research projects, Lucila is involved in several executive trainings and policy debates at EUI/RSCAS/FSR. Her primary field of research is energy law, with a focus on its private law dimension, including contracts in local, retail and wholesale markets, consumer law, and market integrity (REMIT).

Lucila is also an Associate Professor at NOVA University of Lisbon, NOVSA School of Law, holding the Abreu Chair in ESG Impact, Climate and Energy Law, and coordinating their master’s in international and European Law, and the NOVA Green Lab. She has also been an invited professor at FGV-Rio since 2025. She holds a PhD and an LLM in EU Law from the European University Institute and has licenses to practice law in Portugal and Brazil.

Before joining the faculty at NOVA, Lucila has been a tenured Assistant Professor at Wageningen University & Research (2020-2022), Edmond J. Safra Research Fellow at the Centre for Ethics at Tel Aviv University (2019-2020), postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law at the University of Helsinki (2017-2019), visiting professor at Università Degli Studi di Padova (2019), and visiting researcher at Louvain Global College Law, UCLouvain (2017).

Lucila is a member of the editorial boards, serving as Associate Editor of Competition and Regulation in Network Industries (Sage Publishing) and editor of Energy Research & Social Science (Elsevier). Her work to date has resulted in numerous publications in international journals such as Yearbook of European Law and Yearbook of International Environmental Law (Oxford Journal), Energy Policy (Elsevier), Transnational Environmental Law (Cambridge Journal), RECIEL (Wiley), and books published with Hart Publishing, Edward Elgar and Springer.

Antonio Pistilli is a full-stack developer and solution architect at the European University Institute. He holds a degree in Computer Science and focuses on the design and delivery of scalable, data-driven digital platforms.

His work combines software engineering with strategic thinking, contributing to the definition of digital architectures that support research, knowledge dissemination, and policy-oriented activities. He is involved in shaping end-to-end systems, from data ingestion and processing pipelines to user-facing applications, with particular attention to performance, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.

His technical interests include cloud-based architectures, AI-driven document analysis, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, and data visualization, with a strong focus on translating complex requirements into effective and robust digital solutions.

Nicolò Rossetto is a Research Fellow at the Florence School of Regulation (FSR), where he has led the electricity research team since 2022 and is co-director of the course on Getting to Net Zero. Since he first joined the FSR in 2016, Nicolò has contributed to several research projects on energy regulation and markets, financed by both public and private entities.

Nicolò holds a master’s degree in international economics, policies and institutions from the University of Pavia (Italy), and a PhD in Economics, Law and Institutions from the IUSS of the same city. Before joining the FSR in 2016, Nicolò was an external advisor to the World Bank, a founding member of the Energy Watch at ISPI (Milano, Italy) and a teaching assistant at the Università di Pavia, where he currently teaches a post-graduate course on the Economics and Management of the Energy Industry.

His research interests span from the regulation of network industries to European energy policy, from energy security to the economics of electricity markets. He is a reviewer for several academic journals, such as Utilities Policy, Energy Economics, Energy Sources, Energy Efficiency, and EEEP.

Tim is a Part-time Assistant Professor at the Florence School of Regulation. He is also a Senior Director at FTI Consulting in London working on projects related to power market design and regulation across the globe. He is affiliated to the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR). Previously he was a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he instructed the course “Engineering, Economics and Regulation of the Electric Power Sector”, a Research Scientist at the MITEI and a Research Fellow at FSR. He graduated as an engineer from Ghent University, Belgium and completed the EMIN program, an international master programme in economics. He holds a PhD in energy economics from University Paris-Sud XI.

Daniela Bernardo is Head of Sector for Executive Education at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) at the European University Institute. She holds a degree in Communication Technologies from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. With over 15 years of professional experience, she brings together expertise in executive education, digital learning design, and strategic programme coordination.

She leads the development and delivery of executive training initiatives, working closely with academics, experts, and institutional partners to design high-quality learning experiences that support professional development, policy dialogue, and capacity building across sectors.