Luis Ignacio Parada

Gas LNG Europe President

Anne-Sophie Corbeau

Global Research Scholar at Centre on Global Energy Policy (CGEP)

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

Joop Hazenberg

EU Director, Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA)

Joop Hazenberg has been leading the European office of the CCSA since 2023. He has a long track record in EU energy and climate policies.  Amongst others, he was EU correspondent for a range of international media, campaign manager for European NGOs on the phase-out of coal power plants, and Director External Affairs at the GSMA, representing the mobile telecommunications industry in Europe. He also worked for the European Heat Pump Association and represented SolarPower Europe and WindEurope on the topic of corporate renewable energy sourcing.

Before moving to Brussels in 2013, Joop worked in political circles in his home country The Netherlands. He held several functions in the Dutch Parliament, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a national newspaper. He also founded a think-tank for young professionals and wrote six books and many op-eds and essays. His latest book deals with climate action.

Harmen Dekker

CEO, European Biogas Association

Harmen Dekker has worked for almost 15 years within the sustainability sector and is devoted to the mitigation of climate change. With both a technical as well as a business administration background he has built his career in the water and gas sector, where he has held various management positions. 

He joins the EBA after being involved in the biogas sector for over 5 years. 

During those years, he not only focused expansion of biogas and in particular biomethane but also on the implementation of techniques such as bio-LNG, bio-Methanol, bio-Hydrogen and bioplastics. 

Harmen Dekker

Csilla Bartok

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.

Emile Herben

Director Product Management, Yara Clean Ammonia

Emile is the Director of Product Management for Clean Ammonia at Yara, one of the world’s largest ammonia producers and transporters. Since joining Yara in 2018, he has worked on the company's transition to clean ammonia, currently overseeing product development for new markets. He is also actively involved in the Ammonia Energy Association. Prior to Yara, Emile held various roles in manufacturing, engineering, and project management at Procter & Gamble. He holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Delft University of Technology.

Laurent Hamou

Head of European and Institutional Affairs, Elengy

After 25 years in the energy business, working for EDF, Cap Gemini Consulting, ENGIE, Laurent HAMOU is now head of European and Institutional Affairs at Elengy since 1st January 2020.

He is particularly involved in the setting up of an appropriate regulatory framework for new gases, taking into account terminals and small scale LNG logistic chain constraints.

He is also an active member of Gas Infrastructure Europe, chairing or co-chairing several work groups, and of Association Française du Gaz.

Huibert van Rossum

External Affairs Programme Manager Energy Transition, Port of Rotterdam

Huibert van Rossum will speak on behalf of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO)

Matthias Janssen

Associate Director, Frontier Economics

Matthias advises leading European companies and public authorities in the energy sector and other sectors.

He helps companies and organisations to analyse the economics of their markets and act to gain competitive advantage or respond to regulatory pressure. He regularly advises on energy market design issues, competition assessment, wholesale and retail pricing, and on the assessment of climate policy instruments.

Before joining Frontier, Matthias worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Muenster, Germany, focusing on the pricing of electricity and gas in liberalised markets.

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Claudio Rodriguez Suarez

Mechanical Engineer specialising in Machinery from the University of Oviedo and PDG from the IESE Business School of the University of Navarra.

He has spent his entire professional career at Enagás, in management positions related to the production, maintenance, development, engineering, operation and marketing of natural gas infrastructures.

In January 2012, he was appointed General Manager of Infrastructures and member of the Enagás Management Committee, and since June of that year he has been a member of its Executive Committee, where, in addition to his responsibilities linked to the guarantee of energy supply, he is also responsible for promoting the development of the hydrogen infrastructures necessary to meet EU objectives.

He combines this position with sectorial responsibilities as Vice President of Gasnam (sectorial for the promotion of natural gas and renewable gases in mobility), Vice President of the Spanish Renewable Ammonia Association (AEAR), as well as of the Spanish Maintenance Association, of which he is President.

Claudio Rodriguez

Rogier Roobeek

Senior Consultant Energy Markets & Strategy, DNV

Tatiana Marquez Uriarte

Member of Cabinet of the Commissioner for Energy, European Commission

Olivier Heurtin

CEO, Dunkerque LNG

Stefaan Adriaens

Commercial Manager, Gate Terminal | Flame Speaker

Stefaan joined the Gate LNG terminal in Rotterdam (NL) as commercial manager in 2008 shortly after FID. With a small team he works on the long term relationship with the 7 terminal users to further enhance the functionality of the terminal. His prior function was at Fluxys (B) where he was a.o. involved in the expansion of the Zeebrugge LNG terminal. Stefaan has spent his entire career in energy related matters (refining, petrochemicals, natural gas, banking) in a variety of functions (commercial, planning, financial, engineering, IT, analysis, …).