Luis Ignacio Parada is EU Energy Policy & Regulation Director at Enagás, the main gas transmission, LNG and gas storage operator in Spain. He has 25 years of experience in the energy sector, where he has specialised in energy economics, gas and hydrogen sector regulation and energy policy.
Before joining Enagás, Luis started his career in 1998 at Gas Natural, and worked in NERA Economic Consulting from 2001 to 2004.
Since May 2023 he serves as Board member in ENTSOG, in GIE (Gas Infrastructure Europe) and as Executive Committee in GLE (Gas LNG Europe). He is also engaged as Board member in EASEE-gas since March 2019, and was a member of the Executive Committee of GTE (Gas Transmission Europe) from December 2020 to May 2023.
Luis Ignacio holds an Executive MBA from IESE Business School and a MSc. in Applied Economics. He graduated in Economics at Universidad de Salamanca (Spain).
Nelly Nicoli
Elengy
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Pieter van Aartsen
Gate terminal
Pieter van Aartsen is company secretary of Gasunie. In addition to this position he heads the government and regulatory affairs department. Before taking up his position as GIE board member he chaired the strategy task force and represented GIE in the steering committee of GasNaturally.
Previously he has worked as policy advisor on energy, climate and the internal market in the European Parliament. He was closely involved in the negotiations between the EU institutions on the Third Energy Package and the Second Strategic Energy Review. Before relocating to Brussels he was working in the communications department of a political party and worked on several election campaigns in the Netherlands.
Michalis Thomadakis
DESFA
Head of Strategy & Development Division, DESFA
Michalis Thomadakis: Head of Strategy & Development Division, DESFA, as of 1st October 2020. Until then, he was a Partner in Grant Thornton Greece, leading the Energy Sector advisory, since September 2016.
He has extensive experience in energy markets’ regulation, as Vice Chairman of the Greek Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) and Member of the Board from 2005 to 2015, responsible for Gas and International Affairs, but also as member of the Board of Regulators of ACER, member of the CEER General Assembly, Chairman of the Gas Working Group of the Energy Community Regulatory Board and Chairman of the Investment Group of the Energy Charter Conference. He is a Member of the Board of Appeal of ACER since November 2016 and member of the Advisory Board of the Training Academy of CEER since 2015.
He has extensive personal involvement in the development of the gas legislation as well as the regulatory framework of the Greek gas market for the last 14 years, and was deeply involved in the corresponding developments in South East Europe. He had a leading role in the development of the regulatory framework for several gas infrastructure projects related to the Southern Gas Corridor, such as TAP, IGB and IGI.
He had active participation in the evolution of the Greek energy policy and served as Advisor to several Ministers of Energy on the evolution of energy policy, including Intergovernmental Agreements for international gas projects.
Before joining RAE, he was Deputy Head of Department in the Public Gas Corporation of Greece (DEPA SA), were he worked from the onset of the gas industry in Greece and for 7 years, as the contractual administrator of the Gas Procurement contracts from Russia (pipeline) and Algeria (LNG), the LNG transportation contracts, as well as on the development of underground gas storage, on the derivation of transportation tariffs and on the establishment of the Gas Distribution Companies in Greece. He was involved in all contractual negotiations with the gas suppliers and transporters, including price revision requests and dispute settlement with the suppliers.
In 2013 he chaired the Arbitration Tribunal which settled the electricity price dispute between a power producer and one of the biggest industrial consumers in Greece. He has a Mechanical Engineering degree from National Technical University of Athens and a PhD from the same University. He is the author of more than 30 papers and invited lecturer in many events of the energy industry worldwide.
Dina Lanzi
Snam / GNL Italia
Dina Lanzi is FSRU Commercial Interfaces Director.
In this role she is responsible for the commercial activities both for FSRUs and on shore plants.
With 25 years of experience in gas transmission, all matured within Snam group, Dina developed her competencies in many sectors of the gas value chain, both technical and institutional. After a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, she started her career in a LNG plant and after that she experienced , both technical and institutional roles in pipeline maintenance management, metering, gas technical standards, and relationship with Regulatory body.
In particular in her previous roles in her previous role she was responsible for Decarbonization technical development with a particular focus on hydrogen and she launched the activities to asses the impact of hydrogen on high pressure pipeline and compressor station and on metering device (both volumes and quality metering devices).
She is currently president of CIG (Comitato Italiano Gas) for normative activities in the gas system and vice president of H2IT, the Italian association for hydrogen.
She is also member of Snam Rete gas board and President of Teraga Holding.
Sławomir Hinc
GAZ-SYSTEM
President of the Management Board
GAZ-SYSTEM
Sławomir Hinc has long-standing experience in natural gas industry, having been
directly involved in the development of the concept of national gas transmission
system operator in Poland since 2003. From 2004 to 2008, he held the position of
Financial Director at PGNiG Przesył (currently GAZ-SYSTEM), where he was responsible
for cooperation with the Energy Regulatory Office, negotiations of the lease
agreement for transmission assets that were transferred to GAZ-SYSTEM by PGNiG as a
dividend in kind. He also supervised the process of obtaining a gas transmission license
by GAZ-SYSTEM. From 2006 to 2008, he served as a commercial proxy in GAZ-SYSTEM.
He is the author of its first transmission tariff. He was responsible on GAZ-SYSTEM’s part
for the transfer of Regional Transmission Branches from PGNiG S.A. structures to
GAZ-SYSTEM in 2005.
From 2008 to 2013, he served as Vice-President for Financial Affairs at PGNiG, where
he was responsible for the spin-off of the storage system operator (SSO) currently
independently operating under the business name Gas Storage Poland and the
launch of storage services on the market. From 2008 to 2014, he served as a member
of the Supervisory Board of EuRoPol GAZ. In 2010, he was appointed to the Governing
Board of the European Association of Gas and Oil Companies EUROGAS in Brussels
where he served until 2015.
From 2013 to 2016, he served as President and CEO of PGNiG Upstream Norway, where
he was responsible for the acquisition of PGNiG’s interests in 4 gas fields, and for this
business deal he received the Gullkronen Award for the best oil transaction in Norway.
He also supervised the company’s expansion of exploration activities in the north of
Norway, including the obtaining of exploration licences in the Barents Sea by PGNiG.
From 2019 to 2024, he was involved in the renewable energy industry, first as an advisor
to the Management Board and then as a member of the Supervisory Board of
Helioexpert. In 2019, he was appointed as President and Managing Director at Green
Genius – a Polish branch of a Lithuanian solar power plant operator.
He holds a degree in economics from the Institute of Foreign Trade at the University of
Gdańsk and a Ph.D. in engineering and technology specialising in gas transmission
tariff systems from the Faculty of Environmental Engineering at the Warsaw University
of Technology. He also studied at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and
University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. He completed postgraduate Business
Management Programme organised by the Central Connecticut State University.
Lecturer at postgraduate studies at the Warsaw University of Technology and the AGH
University of Science and Technology in the field of transport, tariffs and regulatory
affairs in the natural gas market. Author of numerous publications on natural gas tariffs
and transportation.
Olivier Heurtin
Dunkerque LNG
