ENERMADRID

Former EU Commissioner for Energy and Climate Action

Born in Madrid on February 24, 1950, he has a Law Degree from the Complutense University of Madrid and a State Lawyer. He was an Andalusian MP from 1982 to 1986, a European MP from 1986 to 1989; Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Senator from 2000 to 2004; Member of Congress for Cádiz from 2004 to 2007 and Madrid from 2008 to 2014; Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment from 2011 to 2014 and European Commissioner for Energy and Climate Action from 2014 to 2019.

Prof. Free University of Bruxelles. "Africa, Asia and technology, root of the future of energy"

Chemical Engineer from the Free University of Brussels. I have received his Ph.D. from the same university with a thesis in the field of energy. Between 1982 and 2018, he was a senior official at the Energy Directorate-General of the European Commission where he has devoted an entire career to energy technology and policy. Since 2003 he is a professor of energy geopolitics and energy politics at the Free University of Brussels. He also lectures at various universities. He is the author of 10 books on energy and sustainable development and many articles. Since 2019 he is President of the European society of engineers and industrialists. He is Knight of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

Director General OECD / NEA. "Nuclear Energy Innovation: Meeting the Challenges of the Future"

William D. Magwood IV is the NEA Director-General since 2014. Prior, he served as Commissioner appointed by the US President and confirmed by the Senate to the US NRC. 2005-2010, I have provided independent strategic and policy advice on energy, environmental and technology policy issues. 1998-2005, Mr. Magwood was Director of Nuclear Energy at the US DoE, where he launched several important initiatives including GIF. He began his career working as a scientist for Westinghouse and Edison Electric Institute. Mr. Magwood holds Bachelor's degrees in Physics and English from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Fine Arts from University of Pittsburgh.

Founder and Honorary Chairman of Beijing International Oil and Gas Executives Forum. Senior Adviser of Shanghai Future Exchanges and former Secretary General of the IEF. "The Meanings of 2030 and 2060 for Chinese Future Energy"

Dr. Sun Xiansheng served as the Secretary General of the International Energy Forum from August 2016 to July 2020. He was the President and chief researcher of The Economic and Technological Research Institute of China National Petroleum Corporation. He has worked in the oil and gas industry for more than 40 years and has accumulated rich experience in international cooperation in oil and gas production and pipeline construction and operation. He has participated in the research work of China's energy planning and energy policy. He holds a Master's degree and a PhD from the Center for Energy and Minerals Law and Policy Research, University of Dundee, United Kingdom.

President of Orkestra (Basque Institute of Competitiveness). "The relevance of the energy sector"

He has been Vice-Chairman Energy of BCG (2016-2018) and previously for 9 years a world leader in the energy practice.

With +30 years of experience, he has advised both companies in the sector and governments and regulators on matters related to energy and sustainable development. He is a member of various boards of companies in the energy sector (Tubacex, ENSO, T2 energy transition fund) as well as the Executive Committee of the Energy Access Platform.

He is a regular presenter in international forums such as IEF (International Energy Forum), WPC, GECF, IGU, ESADEGeo, Aspen Institute, AMER (Asian Ministerial Energy Roundtable) ...

General Director of the Spanish Energy Club

Arcadio Gutiérrez Zapico is a Civil Engineer from the UPM, and a Master in Senior Management from IESE.

He began his professional activity in the nuclear sector in 1976, in the José Cabrera plant project. In 1987 he joined the Technical Corps of the State Civil Administration, being deputy director general in the ministries of Labor and Social Security, and of Industry and Energy.

In 1992 he returned to the energy sector as general director of Unión Fenosa Ingeniería, later Socoin Ingeniería y Construcción Industrial, in which he held the position of president. Between 2000 and 2002 he was president of the Spanish Association of Engineering, Consulting and Services Companies Tecnológico, Tecniberia, later being a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of the Industry and Energy Sector until 2010.

Between 2004 and 2008 he was a member of the Board of Directors and president of the Consulting Commission at the College of Civil Engineers. Since 2007 he has participated as a member of the Governing Board of the Mutualidad de Promoción Social, FAM, of said College. Since December 2012 he has been general director of the Spanish Energy Club. He is also president of the Agustín de Betancourt and Civil Engineers, Channels and Ports foundations.

Director of Innovation. Naturgy

Electrical Industrial Engineer ICAI promotion of 1997 and PDD by IE Business School. He is Director of Innovation at Naturgy and professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the ICAI School of Industrial Engineering. He is vice president of the Board of KIC Innoenergy Iberia and member of the Governing Board at the Technological Institute of Energy. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the EnergyLab Technological Center and of the Advisory Council of the Efficient Habitat Cluster AEICE.

 Director of Innovation, sustainability and quality. Iberdrola

Industrial Engineer from the Escuela Superior Industrial (ICAI) of the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid and Doctor in Industrial Engineering from the National University of Distance Education. He has also completed the Management School Program designed specifically for Iberdrola by IESE and the Global Leadership Program at IMD.
A professional with twenty years of experience, he began his career in different companies in the railway and energy sector. He joined Iberdrola in 2006 as Director of Innovation. In 2010 he was appointed Director of Innovation, Sustainability and Quality. In 2014, he was appointed Director of Innovation and Sustainability of the Iberdrola Group. He is also responsible for IBERDROLA's (PERSEO) venture capital program, where he coordinates PERSEO's investment in technology companies related to energy sustainability.
Member of the World Economic Forum, Global Future Council for Advanced Energy Technologies. She is a member of the advisory council of NEOTEC and the Center for Low Carbon Energy for Electric Power Systems at MIT.
 

Executive Director of Technology and Corporate Venturing. Repsol

He joined Repsol in 1998. For more than nine years, he was in charge of the climate change strategy. Prior to his current position, he was the Director of Sustainability.

Among other international institutions, he was a member, 2010 to 2013, of the Clean Development Mechanism Panel, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Currently, he represents Repsol as a member of the Executive Committee on Climate Investments in the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI).

Doctor Engineer, Higher Technical School Industrial Engineers, Physics Graduate Complutense Madrid University, Master Environmental Engineering EOI.

Head of executive training, IESE Leadership Development Program and ESADE-Wharton Business Management Program.

Director of Technology Services and Operations. Cepsa

An Industrial Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and an MBA from the San Telmo Institute of Seville, he joined CEPSA in 1990 occupying different positions in the Processes, Operations, Engineering, Business Development and Supply Chain departments, in several subsidiaries of the group. In 2015 he was appointed head of the Chemical business, a position he held until April 2020.

Director of business diversification. redexis

Industrial Technical Engineer specialized in control of industrial processes and linked to the gas sector since 1996. After passing through different companies in the sector, in 2014 he was appointed Regional Director of Redexis Gas in the Balearic Islands and in 2016 General Director of the island areas of the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. Since 2018, he has been Director of Business Diversification of Redexis developing projects for the construction of NGV and biomethane and hydrogen supply facilities for vehicular use and injection in gas distribution and transportation networks. As an expert in renewable gases, he has participated as a speaker at multiple congresses, round tables and sector conferences related to mobility and renewable gases.

Managing Director Endesa X. Endesa

Since 2017 Josep Trabado Farré has been Managing Director of Endesa X, Endesa's business division dedicated to the design and implementation of energy products and services to accelerate the energy transition.

Industrial engineer training at ETSEIB, General Management Program by IESE, and with a Master in Marketing; has developed extensive professional experience in Marketing, Communication and Development of Energy Products, Sales Channels and Alliances.

Josep joined the Endesa group in 1985, starting his career in the Commercial Area of ​​Forces Eléctricas de Cataluña (FECSA), where he held various executive positions in the area of ​​Business Development. In 1998 he became Endesa Marketing Director and in 2005 Residential Market Director for Spain and Portugal before assuming the position of General Director of Endesa X.

Deputy Director General for Industrial and Energy Promotion. Madrid's community

Industrial Engineer from the ETSII of Bilbao. He belongs to the Corps of Industrial Engineers of the State and to the Corps of Superior Engineers of the Community of Madrid. He currently holds the position of Deputy Director General for Industrial and Energy Promotion in the Community of Madrid. Member of the Energy Commission of the Official College of Industrial Engineers of Madrid and of the Energy Commission of the Spanish Institute of Engineering. Author of the Energy Plan of the Community of Madrid-Horizon 2020.

President APPA Renovables

Santiago Gómez Ramos is president of the Association of Renewable Energy Companies (APPA Renovables), an entity that brings together about 400 companies that work for the development of all renewable technologies in Spain.

A Senior Mining Engineer from the ETSM of Madrid, specialized in Energy and Fuels, and PDF from IESE, Gómez Ramos has spent a large part of his career at ACCIONA, a company he joined in 1994 from IDAE. With a track record of nearly three decades in Senior Management positions in the national renewable sector, he is currently Director of Energy Management at ACCIONA.

President Protermosolar

Doctor in Aeronautical Engineering from the UPM and Sociologist from the Complutense. It began in 1975 in the Space Division of CASA promoting the Solar Energy department. From Interatom / Siemens (Germany) he participated in the AIE solar power plant in Almería. At ASINEL, he led the technical direction of the Spanish-German solar and wind projects. Later he was appointed director of the CIEMAT Renewable Energy Institute promoting national and international projects.

In 1989, he turned towards technology management, first from the CDTI and later as DG of AENTEC. In 1992 he was appointed director of the Corporación Empresarial de Extremadura, promoting 50 companies, with a positive net result from his investments. In 2008 he returned to the solar thermal sector as SG of PROTERMOSOLAR and president since 2014, as well as president of ESTELA from 2011 to 2019. He has also been a professor at UPM.

This past week it received the Lifetime Award from SolarPACES, an organization of the IEA that is the most relevant worldwide in the Thermosolar sector,

President AEE

Electromechanical Engineer (ICAI) and MBA (IDE) and linked to the renewable energies for 27 years. In September 2001 he joined Gamesa where he has developed his professional career where he has held different management positions in Business Development, Construction, Promotion, Solar, Off-shore and Marketing, having recently assumed the functions of Regulation and Hybrid Systems.

He has been Chairman of the Spanish Wind Association (AEE) and Board Member of the European Wind Association (EWEA) and of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). 
 

Director General UNEF

José Donoso has been working in the renewables sector for more than 30 years, and is currently the General Director of the Unión Española Fotovoltaica (UNEF), an association that brings together more than 85% of the companies in the sector in Spain.

He is also President of the Spanish Photovoltaic R&D Platform (Fotoplat) and member of the Advisory Council of the Electric Market Organization (OMEL).

At the international level, he is President-elect of the Global Solar Council (GSC), member of Task 1 of the International Energy Agency (IEA) and member of the Steering Committee of the European Photovoltaic Technology and Innovation Platform (ETIP PV)

He combines his professional activity with that of a professor in the postgraduate course in Wind Energy at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and in the Master in Renewable Energies and Energy Market at the School of Industrial Organization.

President fGER

Graduate Biology (Environmental specialist), MBA and SMP by “Instituto de Empresa (IE)”. More than 20 years of experience in the waste management sector, as project manager and contractual manager. Experienced in waste to energy project and renewable energies. President “Foro de Generadores de Energía de Residuos (fGER)”, association which promote the use of waste as a resource to produce energy complementary with the European waste treatment hierarchy. Professionally linked to Valoriza Medioambiente (Sacyr) as Director Waste Treatment Department developing project in the national and international market.

UPM Professor

Mining Engineer (Promotion 1979), Doctor of Mining Engineer (1986) and Professor of Engineering Projects of the ETS of Mining Engineers of the Polytechnic University of Madrid since 1992. In a first stage (1979-2000) he developed his professional career in the private mining sector. In his second stage (2000-2016) he was General Director of Industry, Energy and Mines of the Community of Madrid, in addition to holding other positions in the administration.

Within the teaching work, he has been coordinator of various subjects, author of more than 150 professional reports on mining and land restoration, 70 articles, and co-author and editor of more than fifty books on mining, tunnel engineering, the environment, etc. President and promoter of the GEOENER Congresses; CLIMAPLUS, GENEDIS, CivilDRON, Building Energy Rehabilitation Strategies (E3 +) and Electric Energy Storage, ALEN´20.
 

Director of Renewable Energies and Electricity Market. IDAE

Victor Marcos Morell is an Industrial Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and an Industrial Engineer of the State since 2016. With more than 10 years of experience in the energy sector, and especially in that of renewable energies. He has held various positions in the renewable industry, mainly as a risk analyst in financing, sales, refinancing and project promotion. 

In 2016, he joined the General Sub-Directorate of Renewable Energies and Studies within the Secretary of State for Energy. He has participated, among other projects, in the work related to the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC). He has also developed other energy prospective, analysis and regulatory development work, among others, of the Renewable Energy Directive and the Energy Union Governance Regulation.

Since January 2020 he has been part of the cabinet of the Secretary of State for Energy

President of the Renovables Foundation."The social contract for energy"

Superior Industrial Engineer from ICAI and Bachelor of Economic Sciences. 40 years of experience in renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainability.

He is currently President of the Renovables Foundation and founding patron. General Director of Sustainability, Renewable Energies at Endesa 2007-2015, General Director of Gamesa Energía 2001-2007, General Director of SINAE 1988-2001, Head of Projects and Systems at the CIEMAT Institute of Renewable Energies 1984-1988, Head of Renewable Energy Postgraduate Technological Institute 1979-1984.

He has held different positions in renewable sector associations, and has carried out cooperation projects mainly in LATAM for UNO, IDB, European Commission, private foundations, etc.

Executive Director. ENTER Aggregators. “Potential of the Aggregation of distributed resources"

Alicia Carrasco, CEO olivoENERGY, a European energy transition consultancy specialized in regulatory support services and vision design to be implemented by technology startups, large corporations, associations and public institutions.

She is the executive director of the association of aggregation and flexibility enters. Previously, she was Director of European Regulation for Siemens Digital Grid and European Director of Government Affairs for Tesla. In 2010 he co-founded the European association for flexibility SmartEN bringing demand aggregation to the European energy agenda. In 2018, he co-founded it as a national axis to promote the aggregation of distributed resources and the flexibility they provide.