Our jury

Gregg D. Ander is the Managing Director of Gregg D. Ander, LLC and a Senior Fellow with Navigant Consulting providing consultative services on a variety of power and energy sector issues. He recently stepped down as the Vice President of Power Strategies at the Energy Foundation in San Francisco, where he oversaw a portfolio of investments including utility generation, distributed energy resources, energy efficiency, and cross cutting (grid integration, finance, data, pricing, business models). Previously, he held numerous senior management positions during his 30-year career at Southern California Edison, worked at the California Energy Commission, and was in private practice in Wisconsin and Arizona. Mr. Ander was the Executive Producer of seven environmentally focused television programs for NBC, CBS, and PBS. One program, “Greener Buildings/Bluer Skies,” won an Emmy award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Additionally he taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Cal-Poly for twenty years on advanced environmental controls.

Susana Batel is an Integrated Researcher at the Centre for Social Research and Intervention (Cis) of the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE), Portugal, with expertise on the social studies of energy and the environment. Her research has specifically been examing people's responses to and engagement with renewable energy generation and associated infrastructures and she participates in several EU funded projects that aim to better understand energy transitions as socio-technical processes.

Glachant took his Ph.D. in Economics at La Sorbonne in France.
He is Director of the Florence School of Regulation / Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies / European University Institute, the Holder of the Loyola de Palacio Chair in European Energy Policy & Regulation, and vice-president of the International Association for Energy Economics. He is associate researcher at the university of Cambridge (Electricity Policy Research Group) and at the MIT (Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research). His last book (2021) is the “Handbook on Electricity Markets” (co-edited with P. Joskow, MIT, and M. Pollitt, Cambridge U.).
He worked in the industry and private sector before becoming professor at La Sorbonne. He has been advisor of DG TREN, DG COMP and DG RESEARCH at the European Commission and of the French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE). He has been coordinator and scientific advisor of several European research projects. Jean-Michel has been editor-in-chief of EEEP: “Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy” (an IAEE journal).

Rachel is a programme manager for IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme, where she has worked since 2012. The main focus of her work, involves promoting measures to safeguard biodiversity, ecosystem services, natural-resource dependent livelihoods and rights from renewable energy and extractive sector operations. In addition, Rachel works with companies and countries to support the development and implementation of robust and measurable decarbonisation strategies.
Rachel started her career as a research scientist in the field biotechnology after studying Genetics and Plant Breeding at the University of Wales, followed by a doctorate at Oxford University in the field of molecular biology and a postdoctoral Smithsonian scholarship at the University of San Jose in Costa Rica.

Humberto Delgado Rosa is the Director for Natural Capital, DG Environment, European Commission. Previously he was Director for Mainstreaming Adaptation and Low Carbon Technology in DG Climate Action. He is experienced in European and international environmental policy, particularly in biodiversity and climate change issues. He served as Secretary of State for the Environment of the Portuguese Government from March 2005 to June 2011. Between 1995 and 2002 he was an advisor for environmental matters to the Prime-Minister of Portugal. He holds a PhD in Evolutionary Biology. H. Delgado Rosa was born in Lisbon in 1960.

Mr. Hogan has since 2010 been a Senior Advisor to the Regulatory Assistance Project in Europe and the US on power industry decarbonization, focusing on wholesale market design and system integration of intermittent supply. Previously he directed the European Climate Foundation’s Power Program where he led ECF’s landmark Roadmap 2050 decarbonization project. In 18 years in the private power industry he led the development, financing and operations of 13,300 MW of independent power plants on four continents. He began his career in 1980 in power systems marketing with GE. He earned an MBA from Harvard, an ScM from MIT in energy policy, and a BA (Philosophy) and a BS (Aerospace & Mechanical Eng) from the University of Notre Dame.

Since November 2019 Head of Unit for Infrastructure and regional cooperation in DG Energy. Held previous posts in the Commission in the Cabinets of Energy Commissioners Guenther Oettinger and Miguel Arias Cañete, as well as in the units dealing with Renewable Energy and Energy Taxation (DG TAXUD).
Previous experience working in the energy sector for a utility group, as well as in the European Parliament.
Holds a Masters Degree in European Studies from the College of Europe, Natolin.

Marie is the Chairperson of the Climate Change Advisory Council in Ireland - the independent advisory body tasked with assessing and advising on how Ireland is making the transition to a low carbon, climate resilient and environmentally sustainable economy by 2050.
Marie spent thirty years with the European Commission, ultimately in DG ENERGY, where she was Director for Renewables, Energy Efficiency and Innovation.
Marie collaborates with MaREI (the Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine research and innovation at University College Cork) and the University College Dublin (UCD) Energy Institute.
Previously she was the first Chairperson of Renewable Energy Ireland and was a non-executive director of Tipperary Energy Agency, and E3G think tank.

Carl Zichella is the retired director for western transmission for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), for whom he worked for a decade. He was the NRDC’s lead western U.S. renewable energy transmission siting expert and served on a nationwide team working on climate and clean energy issues. Since retiring from NRDC in 2019, he has maintained a private consultancy in which he works with environmental organizations, renewable energy and transmission companies, local, state and national governments, regulators and the public to find transmission solutions that accelerate renewable energy development while respecting wildlife and land conservation efforts.

Mr. Zichella served as a director of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technology (CEERT) for 15 years. He was an environmental representative for the Western Electricity Coordinating Council’s (WECC) Reliability Assessment Committee, and vice chair of WECC’s Scenario Planning Subcommittee. He served as a member of the California Independent System Operator’s Energy Imbalance Market Transitional Committee through the market’s launch in 2015. He served on the Department of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Committee from 2013 to 2017 and was vice chair between 2016 and September 2017.