Andy Shields has been Head of the Security of Electricity Supply at DECC for the last three years. His responsibilities in this period have included the design and implementation of the GB Capacity Market, which is part of the wider Electricity Market Reform programme, and working with both National Grid and Ofgem to ensure security of electricity supply in the period before the Capacity Market is initiated. Previous to this role, Andy has held various other positions in DECC and Cabinet Office, primarily working on energy and foreign policy.

Tom Corcut is head of the Wholesale Gas Markets and the Monitoring Coordination teams in the Markets division at Ofgem. In his role he oversees policy work for the GB gas market, including the Gas Security of Supply Significant Code Review and  Third Party Access Exemptions. He also oversees and coordinates the compliance,  competition and security of supply monitoring for the division. Tom has been at Ofgem for over 5 years and previously led the Market Surveillance team as well as working on both gas and electricity policies.   Before working at Ofgem he worked for DECC in the Climate Change Economics team, where he led the analysis to underpin the UK Government’s position for  the 2008 European Climate and Energy packagenegotiations.  Tom is an economist by training and has over 12 years’ experience in the UK’s Government Economic Service.       

Clare Duffy is UK General Manager for ESB and is a chartered engineer with almost 20 years experience working in the power industry.

In her current role she leads a team of multi-disciplinary specialists in the London office supporting ESB’s UK growth strategy; developing UK thermal power plant investment options; monitoring the market framework (policy/trends/regulation) and investment outlook to assess the impact on current and future business activities; and managing a UK Public Affairs programme. Previous roles within ESB have included Operations Manager for ESBI Consultants, project management roles on international power engineering assignments in Georgia, Kosovo, USA, Vietnam and Bahrain. In addition to her roles with ESB, Clare was an associate editor for 3 years with PACWorld, a leading energy industry magazine on power system protection, automation and control engineering. Prior to ESB, Clare worked with ALSTOM in the UK and USA. She has post-graduate qualifications in marketing, finance and management. Clare is on the advisory board of the Energy and Utility Forum and chairs Energy UK’s Strategic Policy Committee.

Ben is currently the acting Head of Strategy for RWE Generation, the UK arm of RWE’s conventional generation business, and is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction of RWE’s 9GW of gas coal and oil-fired power stations in the UK.
He has spent much of his 17 years in the industry focussing on the impact of energy policy and regulation on the UK electricity market, from sitting on expert groups during the development of the current NETA market through to lobbying government on the design of the imminent capacity mechanism.
His experience includes modelling electricity and capacity markets, forecasting market fundamentals such as demand and renewables penetration, advising on commercial strategies for station operation and lobbying on any facilitating changes to the regulatory framework.
He has worked on both the generation and retail sides of the market, and holds a BA in Economics from the University of Bristol.

Keith completed graduate and postgraduate studies in Chemistry at both Heriot-Watt and Hamburg Universities, and is now also an Honorary Fellow of Energy Policy at the University of Exeter. 
Following 8 years at BDF, a chemical company in Germany, Keith returned to Scotland and led a contract research business at IRI before working 20 years at energy utility SSE.
He has worked in a variety of areas in energy and was also responsible for starting-up and running SSE’s telecoms business.  For the last 10 years he has been responsible for sustainable development, policy, public affairs as well as research and development. 
Keith has acted as an advisor on renewable energy policy to both the UK and Scottish Governments and has been involved in many industry advisory and working groups.  He is currently the industry Chair of the Energy Research Partnership.
He has been very active in trade associations having served on the Boards of the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy and its successor, Energy UK, as well as Scottish Renewables, the Micropower Council, BWEA and EWEA.

Dr Robert Ritz is Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at Cambridge University, and a Senior Research Associate at its Judge Business School. He has written extensively on competition & strategy (across a range of sectors), on the industrial organization of energy markets (especially for natural gas & LNG), and on market-based environmental policy (especially competitiveness impacts & carbon leakage). Robert also serves as a Principal of Vivid Economics Ltd., a London-based consultancy that focuses on the environment and resource-intensive industries. He holds a DPhil in Economics from Nuffield College, Oxford, an MA in Financial Economics from the University of St Andrews, and was a McNeil Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania/Wharton School. Before moving to Cambridge, Robert was a Fellow in Economics at St Hugh's College, Oxford and a Research Fellow with the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

David has worked in the energy industry for many years and has expertise in the regulation of utilities, strategy, market entry, valuation, security of supply, gas storage, gas contracts and gas transportation issues. He worked at British Gas in finance and regulatory affairs. He joined ILEX, an energy consultancy, in 1995 as Principal Gas Consultant and became a Director in September 1999 and was President of the Pöyry Management Consulting from 2007 through to the end of 2010.
David left in late 2010 to concentrate on his own consulting practice. David is also currently the part time Managing Director of the Gas Forum, the body that represents the mid and downstream gas industry in the UK.
David is an acknowledged energy expert and has worked right across the energy chain for clients including banks, governments, producers, shippers, suppliers, large energy users (including the generators), gas transporters and regulators.
David was responsible for developing the ILEX gas modelling expertise used to derive gas prices in many European countries. David has presented gas market studies to the UK Energy Minister and also advised No 10. He led a team working on security of supply issues for UK Government.
In 2009/2010 David advised the Colombian government on how to further reform and develop their gas and oil industry. More recently he advised the Saudi Arabian KA-CARE project on how to move the country away from oil/gas dependency to a future energy strategy of nuclear and renewable energy.
He recently spoke at the World Bank Gas Seminar in Santiago, Chile on UK gas regulation as a case study.

Ann Gardiner is Managing Consultant UK at Ecofys. She has 25 years experience in delivering consultancy to a wide spectrum of customers. For more than 15 years, she has specialised in energy policy analysis and support. Ann has worked across a range of subjects including energy efficiency, energy subsidies, analysis of policy effectiveness (both ex-post and ex-ante), energy statistics and CHP. She has experience in managing international teams and large projects (up to 1M euro) for commercial customers, Governments and for the Commission.  She is currently managing a project for DG Energy to analyse subsidies, costs and external costs for energy in 28 Member States. 

Peter Willis is a Partner and Co-Head of Bird & Bird's Competition & EU law practice group, based in London.  He provides no-nonsense advice on the application of EU and national competition and regulatory rules.
Peter has many years' experience of advising on EU competition and regulatory issues, and has particular expertise in the energy sector.  Clients rely on his in-depth understanding of the interaction between competition rules and the complex technical, commercial and regulatory arrangements governing the operation of energy networks and markets.  He is well-known for his expertise in relation to the Commission’s energy sector inquiry, the third EU energy liberalisation package, REMIT and other sector rules.  An increasing part of his work involves advising on disputes between businesses in which competition and regulatory issues arise.

David is a co-founding Director of Timera Energy, a London based company offering senior consulting expertise on value and risk in European energy markets.  David has worked in energy and financial markets since 1996.  He is an expert in the valuation and risk management of energy assets and portfolios. He has worked in roles across Europe, the US and Australia which have combined a depth of analytical expertise with commercial and trading experience.  David has led Timera Energy’s work with clients including Statoil, Macquarie Bank, E.ON Global Commodities, BG and Gasunie, advising on asset investment, structured contracting, portfolio hedging and risk management. 
David has an Honours degree in Economics from the Australian National University.  He started his career with JP Morgan working as a foreign exchange trader in London and New York.  After making the transition to energy markets, David worked on the Structuring Desk at Williams Energy in London valuing assets and structured energy contracts and developing hedging and risk management strategies. He then joined the Wholesale and Trading division of Origin Energy in Australia, having responsibility for the valuation and risk assessment of major projects, contracts and acquisitions. Prior to jointly founding Timera, David worked for Redpoint Energy advising European energy companies on value and risk management.

Jonathan Graham is a Policy Manager for the Combined Heat and Power Association. Jonathan works closely with CHPA members and policymakers to promote the sustainable development of combined heat and power, district heating, and the wider decentralised energy sector in the UK. Jonathan joined the CHPA in 2012 after previously working as a senior researcher in Parliament, and he has also worked as a journalist for several North American newspapers and magazines. Jonathan holds a BA from Tufts University and an MSc in Public Policy from Queen Mary, University of London.

Mike Foster is CEO of Energy and Utilities Alliance, a not-for-profit trade association formerly known as SBGI. The trade association, based at Kenilworth in the West Midlands, has been in existence since 1905. Historically it was the only trade association to represent the whole of the onshore gas industry. More recently, its scope extended to other parts of the energy and utility sector, ranging from gas storage to smart meters, from pipes to high efficiency boilers, from industrial boilers to renewables.
Mike Foster was MP for Worcester 1997 to 2010, and served as a Minister under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, latterly as Minister for International Development.
Immediately prior to joining what was then SBGI, he was Head of Communications at the international charity WaterAid.

Pavel joined the Generation Team at Energy UK in February 2013 and has since led the association’s work on Electricity Market Reform (EMR), including development of Energy UK’s input into the design and implementation of the Capacity Market. In addition to EMR, Pavel is involved in Energy UK’s policy work on a range of generation and wholesale electricity market issues.
Prior to Energy UK, Pavel was a Public Affairs consultant at Weber Shandwick where he led on their energy work across the oil & gas and renewables sectors.

Filippo Gaddo is the Head of Energy Economics at Arup, which he joined in 2013, and has thirteen years’ professional experience working for government departments and major consulting firms. Filippo combines deep energy industry experience and economics knowledge to support clients in developing business plans, energy policy and market strategy. Areas of recent focus have been gas and power market modelling, including electricity market design, capacity markets, energy demand forecasting, energy policy impact assessment and the economic case for investing in energy infrastructure and new technologies. He also advises investors in the acquisition of power and gas assets across Europe.

Rupert Steele is Director of Regulation at ScottishPower.  He is responsible for Public and Regulatory policy across all aspects of Iberdrola’s interests in the UK.  This includes working with Government and regulatory stakeholders to help find solutions which meet both the needs of the company and the public interest.
He reports directly to ScottishPower’s Chief Corporate Officer and to Iberdrola’s Global Regulation Director.  He is a member of the ScottishPower Co-ordination Committee which brings together the top level managers in the UK business.
Rupert was appointed Director of Regulation on joining ScottishPower in April 2007.  Prior to this, he ran a consultancy business (Energy Strategies Limited) that advised utility, City and Government clients on energy policy issues.
His earlier career included 16 years working on energy issues in the Department of Trade and Industry and three years at TXU Europe.
He was appointed OBE in 1992.

Carlo Carraro is Professor of Environmental Economics and Econometrics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been President of the University of Venice from 2009 to 2014 and Director of the Department of Economics from 2005 to 2008. In 2008, he has been elected Vice-Chair of the Working Group III and Member of the Bureau of the Nobel Laureate Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is also Director of the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Program of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Executive Board Member of the Euro Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC) and Director of the International Centre for Climate Governance (ICCG).
Carlo Carraro is Vice President of the Italian Society of Climate Sciences (SISC) and member of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) Advisory Committee and of the International Advisory Board of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP). He is also member of the Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP), the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, and the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University. He is research fellow of the CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research), London, and CESifo (Center of Economic Studies), Munich, and Associate Research Fellow, CEPS (Center of Economic Policy Studies), Bruxelles.
In 2009, he has been awarded the Sustainable Energy Prize by the Italian Association of Energy Economists. He is co-editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, and belongs to the editorial board of numerous academic journals. He has been publishing 30 books and more than 200 articles on several economic, energy and environmental issues.

Henry Derwent is CEO of Climate Strategies. He was CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association for five years before joining CS, and remains Honorary Vice-President there.  Before IETA, he was for a long period the UK Government’s lead official on international, European and domestic climate change and other environmental pollution issues, including a spell in 10 Downing Street.

Dr John Newton joined ITM Power in January 2012 from RWE npower where he was CIO for the generation business. John has 20 years’ utility experience in various roles, R&D, supply chain development and management, international business development, engineering consultancy and IT demand side management. John has a background in Energy Storage and was part of Regenesys Technologies, a company formed by National Power. John is a Chartered Engineer and holds a Bachelor degree in Combined Sciences from Staffordshire University a Master’s degree in Industrial Mineralogy from Hull University and a Doctorate in Materials Engineering from Sheffield University. From 2002 to 2008 John was an independent assessor for the UK DTI New & Renewable Energy Programme.