Bjarne Steffen is an Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and heads its Climate Finance and Policy Group. His research concerns public policy related to the low-carbon transition in the energy and financial sectors, drawing on concepts from energy economics, financial economics, and innovation studies. He is a member of international advisory bodies, such as the World Economic Forum’s Taskforce on Mobilizing Investment for Clean Energy in Emerging Economies, and the OECD/UNEP Green Finance Platform’s Sustainable Finance Effectiveness Working Group, and an external faculty at the MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.

Lena Klaaßen is a PhD candidate at the Climate Finance and Policy Group at ETH Zurich with a background in finance and power engineering. She conducts research on the role of the financial sector in accelerating investment in low-carbon technologies. In this context, her focus is on future investments needs in Europe’s infrastructure to get on a Paris-compatible pathway and whether current policies are fitted to induce required changes. Beyond that, she explores how and why investment needs and types vary across low-carbon technologies. Before joining the Climate Finance and Policy Group, she researched on carbon accounting in the corporate and cryptocurrency space.

Stef Proost is full emeritus professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Leuven (B)
teaching Transport and Environment courses. At present he is a research fellow at TOI (Oslo), at VTI
(Stockholm) and is a CES-IFO fellow (Munich). He is one of the founders of the spin-off Transport
Mobility Leuven (TML).

He is interested in public policy questions: optimal pricing and investment in transport, choice of
policy instruments for environmental policy, energy pricing questions. He works on decarbonisation of
the transport sector (cars, trucks, aircrafts and ferries) a s well as on road pricing and public transport
pricing.

Hana Fitzová works as an assistant professor and researcher at Department of Economics and at Institute for Transport Economics, Geography and Policy at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic.

Her research is focused on railway transport, urban public transport, efficiency analysis in transport.

Juan Montero (PhD Law, EUI) is Full Professor of Administrative Law and Economic Regulation in the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid.

His research is focused on the regulation of network industries, both traditional like railways, telecommunications and posts, and new network industries like digital platforms, and the interaction between them, particularly in transportation. He has published eight books and more than sixty scientific articles on independent regulatory agencies, network access regulation, public service obligations, the digitalisation of infrastructure and platform regulation. His last book is “The Rise of the New Network Industries. Regulating Digital Platforms”.

He provides regular advice to operators and governments on institution building, liberalisation and public service schemes.

Lennard is a PhD researcher at the KU Leuven (Consumer Competition Market). He holds a research master’s degree from the KU Leuven, and completed an LL.M. at the University of Chicago.
His research focuses on multiple areas of EU economic law, including internal market law, competition law, and public procurement regulation. He is currently preparing a doctoral thesis on the concept of ‘EU self-restraint’, i.e. instances in which the European institutions voluntarily decide not to (fully) intervene even if they are allowed to do so.
Lennard’s most recent publications cover subjects such as sustainability considerations in public procurement law, the role of EU economic law during the Covid-crisis, and the characteristics of de minimis exceptions across areas of EU economic law. Lennard is also editor of the CCM blog.