Beyond market signals: securing energy resilience through gas storage and gas reserves

Lucie Boost

Secretary General, GIE

As Head of Public Affairs for Europe at Air Products, Lucie Boost led a team responsible for European and national energy affairs, focusing on key markets such as the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, and Spain. Her expertise encompasses hydrogen, the integrated energy market, and CCUS, aligning perfectly with GIE’s strategic priorities.

Prior to joining Air Products in January 2023, Lucie spent 13 years at Equinor, where she held various leadership positions in natural gas sales, regulatory affairs, and public affairs. During her tenure at Equinor, she gained extensive experience in gas regulation, hydrogen, and CCS, representing the company in esteemed organisations such as Eurogas, the European Federation of Energy Traders, the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers, the Zero Emissions Platform, and Hydrogen Europe.

Lucie holds a Licence degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and is proficient in Dutch, English, and French.

Arno Büx

President, GIE; CEO, FluxSwiss; SVP Corporate Commercial, Fluxys Group

Arno Büx is Senior Vice President Corporate Commercial of the Fluxys Group. Since November 1^st, 2024, he is also CEO of FluxSwiss , the group’s Swiss affiliate.

Arno Büx is GIE President since October 2024. He also served as GLE President between 2019 and 2023.

Before joining Fluxys, he has evolved within the Engie Group for 20 years, working in Belgium, France and Luxemburg but mostly contributing to the development of the Group’s energy activities in Germany. He held various executive and non-executive management positions in businesses targeting the B2B and B2C commodity markets as well as the gas midstream sector.

Arno Büx holds degrees in Engineering and Business Administration as well as a certificate in Corporate Governance.

Arno Büx

Louis Watine

Team Leader, Security of Gas Supply, European Commission

Louis Watine is Team Leader for Security of Gas Supply at the European Commission (DG ENER), a position he has held since November 2022.

Before joining the Commission, he spent six years at ENTSOG, where he was Director of the System Development Department (2021 to 2022), after serving as Deputy Director, Project Manager and Advisor in System Development.

Earlier in his career, Louis worked for more than eleven years at Gaz de France and GRTgaz in engineering and project roles, covering safety studies, industrial piping, rotating machinery and project management.

He holds an engineering degree from ISAE-Supméca (Institut supérieur de mécanique de Paris).

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Alex Barnes

Alex Barnes is an independent consultant specialising in energy market design and regulation. He has nearly thirty years’ experience in the oil and gas sector, most of it spent in the liberalisation of gas and electricity markets.

He has worked for a range of companies including Total, BG Group and Gazprom, helping them manage the impacts of energy liberalisation, both exploiting new opportunities and defending existing positions. At BG Group he led the team which secured an exemption from third part access regulation for the Dragon LNG terminal, enabling investment to go proceed. He established the Regulatory Affairs function for Gazprom Marketing & Trading in 2009, supporting its rapid expansion in gas and power trading in Europe, and also advised Gazprom on gas market liberalisation related issues. He has helped draft gas market rules as an industry representative on expert panels for the European Network of Transmission Operators for gas (ENTSOG) and the European energy market regulator ACER. He has also represented the European Federation of Energy Traders at the Madrid Forum organised by the EU Commission.

Recent work has focussed on decarbonisation of the European gas market, carbon pricing and regulation of future hydrogen markets.

He has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, and an MBA from Henley Management College.

Alex Barnes

Christopher Andrey

Director, Artelys

Christopher Andrey is an associated director at Artelys and is heading Artelys’ Brussels office since 2018. Ever since completing his PhD in high energy physics from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL – Switzerland), Christopher has worked in the energy sector. After having carried out long-term investment planning studies in the context of national energy transition strategies, Christopher specialised in the economic analysis of energy/climate policies, market design proposals, and of infrastructure projects. He works for clients all along the energy value chain: from project promoters to regulators, from TSOs to NGOs, from national entities to the European Commission. In the recent years, Christopher has devoted his time to analysing the synergies and interdependencies that emerge in closely integrated energy systems

Publications

• Artelys on behalf of Gas Infrastructure Europe, Value of the gas storage infrastructure for the electricity system, 2019
• Artelys on behalf of the European Commission, “METIS study on costs and benefits of a pan-European hydrogen infrastructure”, 2021

Anne-Sophie Corbeau

Global Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University SIPA

Anne-Sophie Corbeau is a Global Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Her research focuses on hydrogen and natural gas. Anne-Sophie has over 20 years of experience in the energy industry and is a recognized expert on natural gas. She is the author of many publications focusing on gas, LNG markets, Asia, China, India and Africa, including the book “LNG markets in transition: the great reconfiguration” (Oxford, 2016). She is also a member of the Gastech governing body.

Prior to joining the Center, Mrs. Corbeau was a senior Leader and head of gas analysis at BP, where she was responsible for advising the Leadership Team on gas market developments and long term pricing assumptions. As part of the Economic and Energy Insights team, she was leading the Energy Outlook’s analysis on gas, industry, nuclear and hydrogen. She also served as a member of BP France’s Comex (board). Before joining BP, she was a Research Fellow at KAPSARC (King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center) in Riyadh where she set up and expanded the natural gas program. She also worked for the International Energy Agency (IEA) where she was responsible for managing the research on global gas markets, and for IHS CERA.

She began her career as an engineer working on fuel cells and hydrogen at Peugeot and Debis Systemhaus. Anne-Sophie holds an MSc from the Ecole Centrale Paris and an MSc from the University of Stuttgart.

Anne-Sophie Corbeau

Pierre Duvieusart

Deputy CEO, Natran; President, ENTSOG; Board Member & Biomethane Area Sponsor, GIE

Pierre Duvieusart serves as Deputy CEO of NaTran, a leading European natural gas transmission system operator. He also chairs the Supervisory Board of NaTran Deutschland.

With 30 years of experience in the energy sector, Pierre began his career as an engineer and subsequently held key positions in various companies, focusing on business development, financial control, investor relations, and financing. In 2012, he joined NaTran as Chief Financial Officer.

Since his appointment as Deputy CEO in September 2018, Pierre has been instrumental in steering NaTran’s operational management and strategic direction, particularly in advancing the company’s energy transition initiatives.

Pierre holds degrees in Engineering and Business Administration.

Andreas Guth

Secretary General, Eurogas

EU Public Affairs professional with 15 years of work experience and a proven track record in leading successful advocacy campaigns

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Luis Ignacio Parada

President, GLE; Energy Policy & Regulation Director, Enagás

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 has served as Board member in ENTSOG and in GIE (Gas Infrastructure Europe), and since January 2024 he has been serving as President 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).

Anna Slavkovská

Manager of EU Affairs & Regulatory Strategy Gas Storage CZ (GSCZ); Board Member & Methane Area Sponsor, GIE

Anna Slavkovská is Manager of EU Affairs & Regulatory Strategy at Gas Storage CZ in the Czech Republic. She has more than 15 years of experience in energy law, regulation and public affairs, with a particular focus on natural gas storage and European energy policy.

Prior to joining Gas Storage CZ, she held several legal, regulatory and executive positions within the NAFTA Group, including Managing Director of NAFTA Speicher Inzenham GmbH in Germany. Throughout her career, she has been actively involved in the implementation of European energy legislation, regulatory reforms, market design and the development of legal and commercial frameworks for gas storage operations across Central Europe.

Anna represents the gas storage sector in several international industry organizations. She has been active within Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE) and Gas Storage Europe (GSE) since 2009, became a member of the GSE Executive Committee in 2023 and currently serves on the GIE Board. She is also a member of the International Gas Union (IGU) Storage Committee.

Charlotte Roule

President, GSE;
CEO, Storengy

Charlotte Roule is Chief Executive Officer of Storengy, Europe's leading underground gas storage operator, and Vice President Hydrogen for ENGIE Group.

As CEO of Storengy, she oversees the company’s activities in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. She leads its strategy to strengthen energy security, support industrial competitiveness, and accelerate the adoption of renewable and low-carbon gases, including biomethane and hydrogen.

In her role as Vice President Hydrogen at ENGIE, she contributes to ENGIE's hydrogen strategy and supports the development of hydrogen value chains and infrastructure solutions in Europe and internationally.

Before taking up her current positions, Charlotte Roule served as Chief Strategy Officer of the ENGIE Group. She previously held several international leadership roles within ENGIE, including Managing Director of Storengy UK and Chief Executive Officer of ENGIE China, where she developed renewable energy and low-carbon infrastructure projects.

Charlotte Roule is actively involved in European energy governance. Since 2023, she has served as President of Gas Storage Europe (GSE), representing European gas storage operators within Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE). Reappointed for a second term in 2025, she promotes the strategic role of energy storage in strengthening Europe's energy resilience and supporting its decarbonization objectives.

She also serves on the Board of Directors of Hydrogen Europe and on the Governing Board of the Clean Hydrogen Partnership. Through these mandates, she contributes to the development of Europe's hydrogen economy and supports the deployment of innovative hydrogen technologies and infrastructure.

Charlotte Roule

Jack Sharples

Head of Gas Research at the Oxford Institute for Energy

Dr Jack Sharples is the Head of Gas Research at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. His area of expertise is the short-term (12-18-month) outlook for European gas supply (production, imports, and storage) and the global LNG market. He is the co-author of the OIES Quarterly Gas Market Review, a regular participant in the OIES podcast series, and the author of numerous OIES papers. In 2026, this has entailed a particular focus on the impact of the curtailment of LNG exports from the Middle East and the challenge of seasonal gas storage replenishment in Europe.
Prior to joining OIES in January 2018, Dr Sharples spent four years as a Lecturer in International Energy Politics at the European University in St Petersburg, Russia. He holds a PhD in the Political Economy of Energy, having written his doctoral dissertation on the relationship between Gazprom and the Russian state, and the supply of Russian gas to the European market.

https://www.oxfordenergy.org/authors/jack-sharples/

Jack Sharples

Götz Lincke

Managing Director at PRISMA

Götz Lincke is the Managing Director of PRISMA. With over 17 years of experience in the energy sector, he has been instrumental in shaping regulatory frameworks and driving market integration across Europe. Under his leadership, PRISMA has come to
dominate 80% of the European gas transport market, making the PRISMA platform the leading natural gas capacity marketplace in Europe.
Before joining PRISMA, Götz held senior roles at Alpiq, E.ON, Centrica, and Duke Energy, where he gained extensive expertise in international energy markets and regulation.
He holds a PhD from the University of London, as well as degrees from the University of Dundee and the University of Göttingen.
Götz lives in Leipzig with his wife and four children.

Akos Losz

Lead Gas Analyst, International Energy Agency (IEA)

Akos Losz is Lead Gas Analyst at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris. Prior to joining the IEA, he worked as a Senior Research Associate at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP), specializing in natural gas, and advised the World Bank on natural gas-related issues as a consultant. He previously held roles at both the IEA and CGEP and worked at Westwood Global Energy Group, a UK-based global energy consulting firm, as well as in the strategy development team of MOL Group, a Hungary-based international energy company. He holds an MA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and completed his undergraduate studies at Corvinus University of Budapest.

Dan Harris

Principal at The Brattle Group

Mr. Harris is a Principal at The Brattle Group, and economic consulting firm. Mr. Harris has particular expertise in the energy industry and regularly acts as an expert in disputes involving natural gas and LNG in long-term contracts both in Europe and
Asia. He has also testified in disputes concerning energy infrastructure, including petroleum distribution assets, power stations, and LNG import terminals. Mr. Harris is listed as one of the world’s leading arbitration experts in the Lexology guide to expert
witnesses. Mr. Harris has consulted on developing tariffs and access arrangements for gas and electricity networks and has authored reports on the cost of capital for gas, electricity, water distribution, and telecommunications networks. He is a coauthor of a major textbook on the cost of capital in regulated industries. He has also taught at Florence School of Regulation on the subject of natural gas markets. Prior to joining The Brattle Group in 2002, Mr. Harris worked for Shell’s upstream oil and gas business in the Netherlands for five years in a variety of roles, including the development of economic models for new oil and gas field developments.

Klaus-Dieter Borchardt

European Coordinator for CESEC, European Commission

Klaus-Dieter Borchardt worked from 1987 until 2020 at the European Commission, including four years at the European Court of Justice. During his 33 years at the European Commission, Klaus-Dieter Borchardt was instrumental in many major developments in EU Law and EU Agriculture and Energy Law and Policy. When he retired in September 2020, he was Deputy Director-General for Energy responsible for the coordination of the Policy Development, Internal Energy Markets, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency as well as for the Energy Dialogues with third countries. Since October 2025 Klaus-Dieter Borchardt is working for the European Commission as the Coordinator of the Central-East and South-East Connectivity (CESEC) High Level Group.

From October 2020 until July 2025 Klaus-Dieter Borchardt worked as a Senior Energy Advisor at the European & Competition Law Practice in the Baker McKenzie office in Brussels.

Since October 2020 Klaus-Dieter Borchardt is also the Managing Director of KDB.results SRL, a Consultancy company dealing with project development and legal advice on European Union Law matters, notably institutional law, energy law, state aid law, EU support instruments.

Klaus-Dieter Borchardt is Doctor in law (Dr. jur.) Free University of Berlin (1985), Teaching Professor at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University - Würzburg, Germany (since 2001) and Adjunct Professor at the Copenhagen Business School (since 2022.

Pawel Lont

Energy Traders Europe | Gas Committee Leader

Dr Paweł Lont is Chair of the Gas Committee at Energy Traders Europe, the association representing 180+ energy-trading companies across Europe. He joined its Secretariat in 2015 and has worked with the Gas Committee for more than a decade, becoming European Gas Markets Manager in 2019 before becoming the Committee’s Chair in September 2025.

Paweł holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Łódź. His work focuses on improving the efficiency and integration of Europe’s gas markets, identifying barriers to cross-border trade, and supporting the development of emerging markets for hydrogen and biomethane. A strong advocate for competitive, liquid and interconnected energy markets, he brings extensive insight into the role of market mechanisms in strengthening European competitiveness and advancing decarbonisation.

Csilla Bartók

Head of Department Gas, Hydrogen and Retail at ACER

Csilla BARTÓK joined ACER as senior officer for Framework Guidelines and Network Codes for Gas in 2011. Since 2021, she is Gas Markets & Energy Retail Team Leader. In 2023, she became Acting Head of Infrastructure, Gas and Retail Department.

Csilla is responsible for the energy infrastructure regulation (TEN-E), gas markets (market monitoring and network codes regulation) and energy retail market monitoring activities. Before joining ACER, Csilla worked at the European Commission’s DG Energy as policy officer, at the OECD as competition and trade analyst and at DG Competition as merger case handler.

Csilla holds master’s degrees in economics, international economics and political sciences, as well as an executive MBA.

Fabien Roques

Executive Vice President, Compass Lexecon

Dr. Fabien Roques is an Executive Vice President at Compass Lexecon, based in Paris, and Head of its EMEA Energy Practice.

Dr Roques has over 20 years of experience as an economist, with substantial expertise in arbitrations, disputes, and state aid and competition assignments.

Dr Roques has worked in a range of industries and infrastructure sectors, including electricity and gas utilities, highways, payment systems, oil and gas majors, ports, railways, shipping, telecoms, and water utilities. He as a particularly deep expertise of the commercial, contractual and regulatory issues in the energy industry, and has published extensively on electricity, gas, oil, and carbon markets.

Dr Roques has given expert testimony before the competition and regulatory authorities and courts of many EU member states. He also has vast experience as a party- and tribunal- appointed expert in civil court disputes and international arbitration proceedings before courts and tribunals.

Dr Roques has worked in a range of EU and non-EU countries (Algeria, Australia, Bahrein, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Georgia, India, Israel, Japan, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Korea, Macedonia, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Sudan, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States).

Dr Roques is also an Associate Professor in economics at the European University Institute (Florence School of Regulation) and at Paris Dauphine University and is an Associate researcher of the Energy Policy Research Group at the University of Cambridge. Fabien has authored numerous publications on a range of economic and regulation issues in both practitioners and academic journals.

Dr Roques holds a degree in Economics from the University Lyon 2 (France), a Masters degree in Engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France) and in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the Judge Business School from the University of Cambridge. In the past Dr Roques held positions with the International Energy Agency (OECD) and with the consultancy IHS.

Georg Dorfleutner

Managing Director, RAG Energy Storage; Board Member, GIE

Georg Dorfleutner, born in 1977 in Austria, displayed a blend of analytical prowess and linguistic skill from an early age. His academic journey began at the Bundesrealgymnasium Geblergasse in Vienna, where he completed his University Entrance Diploma (Matura) in 1995, excelling in Descriptive Geometry, Mathematics, and French. Georg's intellectual curiosity and dedication to the law led him to the Universität Wien, where he earned a Degree in Law (Mag. iur.) in 2001, specializing in Administrative Law and Private International Law.

Georg's professional journey is marked by a series of strategic positions that leveraged his legal expertise within the energy sector. He began as a trainee lawyer at WDR RECHTSANWÄLTE followed by DULLINGER SCHNEIDER RECHTSANWÄLTE GMBH in August 2003, honing his legal skills until December 2007. Prior to this, he had completed internships at notable institutions such as SIEMENS AG ÖSTERREICH and MAG. DAGMAR NEYER’s law firm, and also served as a trainee at the OBERLANDESGERICHT WIEN. In addition, he dedicated a year to civil service at DER WÜRFEL from June 2002 to May 2003.

In January 2008, Georg joined RAG – ROHÖL-AUFSUCHUNGS AG as a Senior Legal Counsel, where he began to integrate his legal expertise with the energy sector's operational demands. His role evolved over time, leading him to become the Vice Executive Secretary at GIE – Gas Infrastructure Europe from October 2010 to September 2011, and subsequently the European Affairs Coordinator at RAG from October 2011 to December 2012.

Georg's career reached a pinnacle in January 2013, when he was appointed as the Managing Director of RAG Energy Storage GmbH in Vienna. In this role, he has been responsible for marketing, business development, strategy, legal matters, market monitoring and evaluation, as well as regulatory affairs in the gas industry. His influence extends beyond the company, as he actively engages in lobbying within European and national associations. Georg has been serving as the Vice President of GSE since 2013, as a Board Member of GIE since 2022 and as a Board Member of the NGVA from 2016 till 2023, highlighting his significant impact on the energy sector at a European level.

Milan Sedláček

President, GTE; Head of EU Affairs and Strategy, Eustream

Dr. Milan Sedláček is the Head of EU Affairs and Strategy at Eustream, a.s. , the gas transmission system operator of Slovakia, which operates gas import corridor for the EU. Milan has 30 years of experience in gas transmission.

Throughout his career in gas transmission, he has held various managerial positions focused on business, regulation and strategy. He has overseen transmission capacity sales, business development and strategic initiatives, always with a strong emphasis on regulatory affairs.

Milan has been responsible for and has collaborated on numerous projects, particularly those related to the introduction of third-party access to the transmission network, transparency, unbundling, network codes, and EU affairs.

Additionally, an integral part of his activities involves participation in EU gas associations. Since 2023 he has served as the president of Gas Transmission Europe (GTE) and vice-president of Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE).

Milan Sedláček