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.

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.

Catharina Sikow-Magny joined the European Commission in 1997. She is the head of unit in charge of "Internal market I: networks and regional initiatives" in the Directorate General of Energy. Before that, she has been in charge of the international transport relations team, and has been the desk officer responsible for the trans-European network policy, internalisation of external costs and strategic policy research.

Pierre Jean Coulon is the President of the Section "Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and Information Society" of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). At the same time, Mr Coulon serves as a Special Advisor for European and International Affairs of the French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC). Previously, he was active as President of the international non-governmental organisation Right to Energy SOS Future, as well as an expert adviser to the United Nations. He also held several management positions in energy companies.
Mr Coulon has been a member of the EESC since 2010, representing the Group of Employees.

Professor Devine-Wright is an expert on public engagement with low-carbon energy technologies and associated infrastructure such as high voltage power lines. He has participated in, and led, several multi-disciplinary research consortia funded by the UK Research Councils and sits on the National Advisory Committee for the Irish power networks company EirGrid and the EU Pilot Project on public acceptance of electricity grids.

Michael works on electricity decarbonisation policy, particularly matters related to market design. He previously led the power programme at the European Climate Foundation. He has 35 years’ experience in the electricity industry; leading development and operation of over 13,000 MW of independent power plants on four continents. He earned an MBA from Harvard, ScM (energy policy) from MIT, and BA (Philosophy) and BS (Aerospace Engineering) from University of Notre Dame.

Baard Eilertsen is the former CEO & President of Wireless Maingate AB and has in his 20 years of working been operative within several industries and different positions. He created the world’s largest and most successful Smart Home solution 100Koll for E.ON and is nowadays frequently advising large utility companies in Europe on strategy as well as being an active advisor on European regulations for the Utility sector. In 2015, Baard started his own advisory company, Truebase AB.

Within the Directorate General for Energy, Marie Donnelly is responsible for the development of policies and actions on energy efficiency and renewable energy, the coordination of research activities in the field of energy as well as actions aiming at supporting the achievement of the 20-20-20 targets. Previously, she worked with the European Commission, in the Employment and Social Affairs Directorate General as Director for Resources and Communication.

Carl Zichella is the director for western transmission for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). He is the NRDC’s lead western U.S. renewable energy transmission siting expert and serves on a nationwide team working on climate and clean energy issues. He works with environmental organizations, renewable energy and transmission industries, 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 is a director of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technology (CEERT), environmental representative for the Western Electricity Coordinating Council’s (WECC) Reliability Assessment Committee, 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.