Ilaria Conti

Coordinator for Strategy and Development
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Ilaria Conti is the FSR Coordinator of Strategy and Development and member of the FSR Cabinet. She’s an expert in energy markets policy and regulation, with a multi-year experience in EU institutional relations.

Her career started in Brussels, where she lived for about 9 years and worked for the Permanent Representation of Italy at the EU, and the United Nations.

She developed her expertise in the energy sector by working for EFET, the “European Federation of Energy Traders” from 2005 until 2013 and covering positions of increasing relevance in the association.

In Brussels, Ilaria actively took part in the EU consultative processes leading to the development of major EU Regulations and Directives, such as the Third Energy Package, the RES Directive, EMIR, REMIT, Security of Supply regulation – as well as facilitating their implementation at national level, by interacting with the national regulators, TSOs and other energy stakeholders.

Ilaria joined the Florence School of Regulation in 2015 and was appointed Head of the FSR Gas area from its foundation in 2017 until 2023, contributing to its research and academic output and managing international research projects on market design, LNG, energy system integration. She inaugurated the Gas area’s workstream on decarbonisation, via renewable and low-carbon gases.

As Strategy and Development Coordinator, Ilaria is currently responsible also for the gender mainstreaming project “FSR Lights on Women” – which aims at improving gender balance in the energy sector.

In 2024, she has been appointed vice-chair of the United Nations Economic Committee for Europe (UNECE).

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Ilaria Conti appointed as Vice-Chair of the UNECE Group of Experts on Gas
Ilaria Conti appointed as Vice-Chair of the UNECE Group of Experts on Gas

The FSR proudly announces the appointment of Ilaria Conti, Head of Gas and Hydrogen, as Vice-Chair of the Group of Experts…

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