Summer School 2016 programme and speakers

Rector, Polis University, Albania

Mr. Aliaj is Co-founder, and current Rector of POLIS University. Lecturer of ‘Urban Design’ and ‘Regional Planning’ courses. 16-years academic experience as lecturer of Urban Design at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic University of Tira­na, and head of the Urbanism Department (2003/5). Graduated as Architect – Ur­ban Designer (1990) and later on postgraduate studies in Real Estate and Property Evaluation (1994/95 in Polytechnic of Tirana). Master in Urban Management (1996) at Urban Management Center (IHS & Erasmus University, Rotterdam Netherlands).

Deputy Director, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Mr. Buschle joined the Energy Community Secretariat in 2007 and is currently the Deputy Director. He has written many publications and articles on European law, energy law, communication law, competition and State aid law. Mr. Buschle holds a PhD degree from the University of St. Galen (2004). He has worked as visiting professor and lecturer at several European universities.

Country Director, GIZ Office, Albania

Mr. Cassens finished his studies at the University of Technology, Berlin, 1983- 1988 in Environmental Planning with a focus on urban and environmental man­agement, regional development and urban environment. He has more than 20 years of international working experience with GIZ (and CIM) in development co­operation as adviser, program manager, sector portfolio manager “Govern­ance” and country director working in Asia, Africa and South Eastern Europe.

Minister of Energy and Industry, Albania

Mr. Damian Gjiknuri has a Bachelor Degree in Law from the University of Tirana (1994) and Master’s Degrees in Public Policy and Law issued by the Monterey NPS School, California (2004), United States and London College of Law, Great Britain (1996). In addition, he has completed post-graduate courses at the Centre for Security Policies, in Geneva (2000) and International Law at Leiden University, the Netherlands (1994). Before his election as a Member of the Assembly in 2009, Mr. Gjiknuri worked as director of a law office and as legal consultant for economic regulatory reforms in Albania and the region, funded by EU, USAID, GTZ, etc. He is fluent in English and has very good knowledge of the Italian language.

Director, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Mr. Kopac has been leading the Energy Community Secretariat since 2012. His mission is to extend the EU internal energy market to South East Europe and beyond on the basis of a legally binding framework. Prior to this position, he worked as General Director for Energy at the Ministry of Economy of Slovenia for nearly 4 years. He acted as Slovenian Minister of Finance (1992) and Minister of Environment (2000-2004). Mr. Kopac holds a Master’s degree from Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana.

Summer School Coordinator, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Mr. Jasimi joined the Energy Community Secretariat in May 2009 as Oil Expert. Before coming to the Energy Community Secretariat, he worked in the Oil and Gas Institute in Albania until 1994. In 1994, Mr. Jasimi joined the UK oil and gas company Premier Oil as project manager for 10 years. In 2004, he started to work as oil advisor and director of cabinet to the Minister of Energy and Industry of Albania. In 2005, he was reappointed Director of Cabinet of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Energy in Albania until April 2009. Mr. Jasimi is involved in many negotiations in oil and gas contracts. His university background is physicist.

Assistant Professor, Comenius University, Slovakia

Assistant Professor, Comenius University, Slovakia

Mr. Mišík is an assistant professor at political science department of Comenius Univer­sity Bratislava in Slovakia. He completed a PhD degree at the same university in 2011. He visited many universities from different parts of world as a researcher or acade­mician. He published a book about energy policy in the enlarged EU. He also pub­lished two book chapters and many articles. He joined many conferences as a speaker.

Head of Gas Unit, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Mr. Grujicic joined Energy Community Secretariat in 2010 as Head of Gas Unit. He assesses and reviews proper implementation and progress of contracting parties relat­ed to the gas acquis. He graduated from Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1999. He joined Ministry of Energy of Serbia where he occu­pied various head positions including the EU integration and international coopera­tion agenda. He was seconded as a national expert to the Energy Charter, Brussels.

Assistant Professor, Comenius University, Slovakia

Associate Professor, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine

Mr. Petrov teaches courses in the areas of institutional law of EU; EU internal mar­ket law; EU external relations law; approximation and harmonisation of legisla­tion in EU, legal aspects of regional integration in the post-USSR area at Kyiv-Mo­hyla Academy. He is also holding presidency of the Ukranian European Studies Association. During his academic career he was awarded many times. He has been providing legal consultancy on various matters related to EU law for the Minis­try of Justice of Ukraine and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine since 2000.

Director, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Mr. Kopac has been leading Energy Community Secretariat since 2012. His mission is to extend EU internal energy market to South East Europe and beyond on the basis of a legally binding framework. Prior to this position, he worked as General Director for Energy at Ministry of Economy of Slovenia for nearly 4 years. He acted as Slovenian Minister of Finance in 1992 and Minister of Environment (2000-2004). Mr. Kopac has a master’s degree from Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana.

Director, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Associate Professor, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine

Communication Officer, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Ms. Poyner joined Energy Community Secretariat as a communication officer in Sep­tember 2013. In this role, she is responsible for implementing organization’s commu­nication and public relations strategy. Prior to this position, she worked on energy and related issues at the Australian Mission to the EU (2010-2013), EURELECTRIC (2009-2010) and European Parliament (2008-2009). She holds a master’s degree in Government and Politics in the EU from the London School of Economics and Politi­cal Science and a bachelor’s degree in International and European Economic Studies.

Electricity Expert, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Mr. Pointvogl has been an electricity expert at Energy Community Secretariat since 2013. Previously, he worked at different positions in the electricity industry and gov­ernment bodies. Amongst other things, he was involved in the development of EU Network Codes and different electricity market integration projects. He is a politi­cal economist, mediator and author of various academic articles on energy policy.

Professor for Energy Economics, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

Mr. Brunekreeft is professor at Jacobs University Bremen and head of the research group Bremen Energy Research. His main research interests are in industrial econom­ics, regulation theory and competition policy of network industries, especially elec­tricity and gas markets. He is the author of several books and published in academic journals and is editor of the journal Competition and Regulation in Network Indus­tries (CRNI). Apart from his academic background, Mr. Brunekreeft has wide expe­rience with consulting various stakeholders in energy sectors in different countries.

Research Assistant, Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute, Italy

Mr. Nicolò Rossetto holds a PhD in Economics, Law and Institutions from the Insti­tute for Advanced Studies of Pavia (IUSS). He is currently research assistant at the Florence School of Regulation (FSR), where he is involved in the study of electric­ity sector regulation. Before joining FSR he was associate researcher of the Istitu­to per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale of Milan (ISPI), where he was part of the Energy Watch. He has written several contributions in the field of European ener­gy policy, energy security, electricity markets and economic regulation. He worked as external consultant for the World Bank in the RISE Project and was teaching assistant for micro-economics and energy economics at the University of Pavia.

Electricity Expert, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Senior Economist, World Bank

Ms. Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Ox­ford. She is currently a Senior Economist in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank. Prior to joining the Bank in 2003 she has worked for a number of international organizations (UNDP, OXFAM, DFID and the European Commission).

Most of her work is operational research on issues related to poverty and in­equality, and the distributional impacts of policy reforms. Over the last few years she has worked extensively on assessing the impacts of energy subsi­dy reforms, authoring a regional report on the distributional impact of tar­iff increases in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region of the World Bank.

Research Assistant, Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute, Italy

Ms. Mumovic joined Energy Community Secretariat in 2009. In the Secretariat, her core responsibilities are related to monitoring the implementation of the treaty in the matters of electricity market and energy statistics. She handles and moderates an elec­tronic coordination platform for DSOs from the Energy Community (ECDSO-E). Her key competences are related to economics of energy businesses and price regulation, business analysis, financial and accounting control, cost structure and tariff design.

Head of Infrastructure and Energy Efficiency Unit, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Ms. Kogalniceanu has been working at Energy Community Secretariat since 2006. She provides assistance to contracting parties to develop and implement energy effi­ciency legal framework and to bridge the financing gap for energy efficiency invest­ments. She has over 25 years of experience in international programme management and consulting for energy and energy efficiency policy and strategy development, capacity building and institutional strengthening, project analysis and financing for climate change, energy efficient technologies and renewable energy sources.

Director of Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Mr. Kaderják is director for a postgraduate program in Energy Economics at Cor­vinus University of Budapest and a lecturer at the Florence School of Regulation. He completed MSc and PhD degree at Corvinus University of Budapest. Since 2004 he has been serving as a training director for ERRA’s in-house energy regu­latory trainings. Between 2000 and 2004, he served as president of the Hungari­an Energy Office, as well as the first chairman of the Energy Regulators Regional Association (ERRA). His major research fields are energy economics, energy securi­ty, regulation and modeling of network industries and environmental economics.

Energy Market Expert, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Ms. Trhulj is a diploma electrical engineer for power systems. She is responsible for monitoring, analyzing and reporting on market developments in the contracting par­ties as well as assisting electricity sector authorities and companies in transposition and implementation of the EU acquis. Her 17 year professional career in the energy sector started as a research and development assistant on power system operation and con­trol projects at Mihajlo Pupin Institute in Belgrade. She gained valuable regulatory ex­perience in the development and monitoring of the electricity market during her seven year tenure at the Energy Agency of the Republic of Serbia as senior expert for electricity.

Head of Electricity Unit, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Mr. Uzunov has a background education in electrical engineering from University St. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. He started his professional activities in the domain of telecom­munications. Mr. Uzunov joined Ministry of Economy of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in 2000 as Assistant to the Minister responsible for structural reforms in the electricity sector, security of supply, coordination of investment projects and policies and international cooperation in electricity. Since 2007 he is heading Electricity Unit of Ener­gy Community Secretariat responsible for monitoring of implementation, reporting on compliance and assistance in drafting of legislation for the electricity sector and market.

Professor, International Institute of Political Science of Masaryk University. Czech Republic

As an academician Mr. Vlcek gives courses on areas of energy security studies, in­ternational relations and energy security and international relations. He is also a member of independent research platform Center for Energy Studies and the ac­ademic association Czech Nuclear Education Network. During his career he has taken part in more than 20 government as well as academic research projects. His scholarly interests include energy security of the Czech Republic and the re­gion of Central and Eastern Europe, especially the nuclear sector and the oil sector.

Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP)

Mr. Landwehr was appointed commercial director of TAP in March 2012. He is responsible for obtaining necessary permits and negotiating contracts for the pipeline project. Prior to this, he held a number of senior commercial project management positions at E.ON Ruhrgas, responsible for national and interna­tional pipeline joint ventures. Mr. Landwehr holds degrees in business adminis­tration and financial economics from the universities of Bamberg and Innsbruck.

Managing Director, SEEPEX a.d. Beograd, Serbia

Mr. Mladenovic has graduated in Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1995 at Uni­versity of Belgrade. Since 2012 he has been working as a director for Interna­tional and Regulatory Affairs, at the same time leading the process of the Ser­bian Electricity Power Exchange (SEEPEX) establishment. With comprehensive regional and European experience, he performs in the process of the SEE Electric­ity Market integration and EU Target Model implementation in the SEE region.

Senior Energy Lawyer, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Ms. Karova hold a PhD degree from the Law Department of the European University Institute. Her thesis title is “Liberalization of the Electricity Markets and Public Service Obligation in the Energy Community”. She joined the Energy Community in 2011 as Energy Lawyer. Prior to this, she worked as a legal advisor at the Cabinet of the Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy of FYR of Macedonia. Ms. Karova published the book Liberalization of the Electricity Markets and Public Service Obligation in the Energy Community. She has also published numerous articles and book chapters.

Deputy Director, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Mr. Buschle joined Energy Community Secretariat in 2007 and he is current­ly the deputy director. He has numerous book publications and articles on Eu­ropean law, energy law, communication law, competition and state aid law. Mr. Buschle completed a PhD degree at University of St. Gallen in 2004. He worked as a visiting professor and lecturer at several European universities.

Professor, Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute, Italy

Ms. Leigh is specialised in European and Dutch law relating to network sectors including gas, electricity, telecoms, transport, post and water and is internationally recognised as a leading expert and commentator in this field. Her expertise is primarily in the field of interconnection between competition law and sector-specific regulation with a particu­lar emphasis on access pricing and conditions, State aid and cross-subsidisation. Leigh is a professor of European law at the University of Tilburg and was a member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). Currently is working for Allen & Overy.

Hogan Lovells International LLP, Munich, Germany

Partner, DLA Piper, UK, Austria

Mr. Gunst is an energy projects and finance practitioner qualified in England & Wales. He has both in-house and private practice experience. His practice ar­eas cover the entire energy value chain, including upstream oil and gas explo­ration, production, transportation and trading, electricity generation projects from conventional and renewable energy sources, electricity transmission, distri­bution, trading and supply, emission reduction projects and environmental se­curities, allowance and certificate trading as well as related regulatory advice.

Head of ECRB Section, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Ms. Grall graduated in 2002 in Master of Laws from Karl Franzens Universi­ty Graz. After 1 year experience in Austrian Chamber of Economics, she joined Austrian Regulatory Authority as member of gas department and worked more than 5 years. In 2007 she started to work as a seconded national expert at Euro­pean Commission. Since 2008 Ms. Grall is heading the ECRB Section in Energy Community Secretariat. She is responsible for regulatory affairs, gas and electrici­ty market liberalization, customer protection and regional market integration.

Senior Energy Lawyer, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Country Coordinator Open Regional Fund for South East Europe, GIZ

Mr. Sazdovski is a member of Association of Energy Engineers and Scientific Advi­sory Board of the South-East Conference for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environmental Systems. He has been working as a project developer and implementer, engaged by USAID, UNDP and GIZ, providing technical assistance to different stakeholders in the field of energy efficiency. He is the author of the National Energy Monitoring System for the local self-governments, and the co-au­thor of the III National Energy Efficiency Action Plan 2016-2018 for Macedonia.

Senior Associate, European Climate Foundation

Mr. Feiler has experience in climate policy development at national, EU and inter­national level in both public and non-profit sectors. Prior joining to ECF in 2016, he worked as topic area leader of the Regional Environmental Center in Hunga­ry, heading climate policy in the Hungarian public administration for nearly a dec­ade. He supported Cyprus, Lithuanian and Greek EU presidency on international climate policy as an adviser and worked as a policy coordinator of CEE Bankwatch Network, one of the largest advocacy NGOs from the new EU member states.

Energy Efficiency Expert, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

Mr. Raicevic has been an Energy Efficiency Expert at the Energy Community Sec­retariat since 2010, responsible for monitoring and supporting implementation of Energy Community Treaty and related energy efficiency acquis in Contracting Par­ties – Western Balkans countries, Moldova and Ukraine. He worked prior as Ener­gy Efficiency Advisor for the Government of Montenegro. He holds a diploma in electrical engineering and master’s degree in international business management.

Academician, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Mr. Resch, holding a degree in electrical engineering (Energy Technology) and a PhD in energy economics, is working as senior researcher at Vienna University of Technology, Energy Economics Group. He joined the research group in 2000 and is currently lead­ing a team dealing with policy-related research in the area of energy policy and energy economics with a focus on renewable energy technologies - with proven expertise on international level. His fields of activity include techno-economic assessments of (renewable) energy technologies, design and evaluation of energy policy strategies and energy modeling (focusing on policy interactions and technology dynamics). He has contributed to several EU studies and policy assessments related to renewable energies, assessing the feasibility and impacts of RES targets for 2020 and beyond.

Principal, SEE Change Net Foundation, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mr. Tankosic is the founder and principal of SEE Change Net a regional think tank which deals with energy, sustainability and EU integration amongst other top­ics. As the former Head of United Nations in Montenegro he was the initiator of the world first UN Eco Premises in Podgorica. He is a speaker for international and regional media. He earned degree in Geography & Philosophy, as well as a Mas­ters in Environmental Management, both from University College Dublin and is currently completing his M.Sc. Thesis in International Organisation Management.

Environmental Expert, Energy Community Secretariat, Austria

After graduation from Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), Mr. Vajda took up duties at the National Environmental Agency’s Budapest local of­fice. Between 2007 and 2011, he worked as a seconded national expert at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment. In March 2012, he started to work as an environmental expert at the Energy Community Secretari­at. In his current position, main activities involve monitoring implementation of EU legislation on Environmental Impact Assessment, Sulphur Content of Liquid Fu­els, Large Combustion Plants and Industrial Emissions in the contracting parties.

Counsel, Dentons, Warsaw, Poland

Mr. Motylewski is a member of the Warsaw Energy and Natural Resources Practice Team. He has with over a decade of experience advising on the development of the EU’s internal market in electricity and liberalization of the energy market in Poland. He has advised and represents energy sector enterprises before the Court of Justice of the EU, the European Commission, regulatory authorities in Austria and the Czech Republic and represents clients on a current basis before the Chairman of the Polish Energy Regulation Office.

Country Coordinator Open Regional Fund for South East Europe, GIZ

Director of the Institute for Research and Development, POLIS University, Albania

Mr. Shutina is one of the founders of Polis University, the International School of Architecture and Urban Development Policies where he teaches strategic plan­ning. He is currently part of the working group established by the Govern­ment of Albania for the implementation of the Regional Development Man­agement Reform. He has collaborated with numerous donor funded programs / projects including with the Austrian Development Agency, Swiss develop­ment Cooperation, USAID, the EU, the Dutch Government, the World Bank.