Giles Dickson is the Chief Executive Officer of WindEurope, a position he’s held since 2015.
WindEurope is the voice of the European wind industry. It represents the whole value chain of onshore and offshore wind across Europe and has more than 400 members. It engages Governments and other stakeholders on policy and regulation. It organises industry exhibitions, conferences and workshops.  And it coordinates publicly-funded R&D in wind.
Dickson is also Chairman of the independent Advisory Council of ENTSO-E, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity.
From 1992 to 2008 he was a civil servant in the UK Government, working mostly on
European affairs. From 2008 to 2015 he worked for the French engineering company Alstom where he was Vice-President for Global Public Affairs.

Walburga is the Chief Executive Officer of SolarPower Europe. She is responsible for the overall performance of the association. Her previous experience includes her roles as Head of the EU Representation Office at VERBUND for nine years; Advisor of Financial and Capital Markets at The Association of German Public Banks and Association of Public Banks (VÖB / EAPB); Competition lawyer at Haarmann Hemmelrath; A Parliamentary Assistant to Austrian MEP and experience in the DG Competition Merger Control Task Force. Walburga has also been a Board Member of Hydrogen Europe. Walburga holds a degree in Law and Business Administration from Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck.

Ann has more than two decades of experience in high-level public policy and strategy, operating at the intersection of technology, innovation, foresight and entrepreneurship.
At Breakthrough Energy, Ann is working with European partners to accelerate clean tech innovation in the pursuit of climate neutrality and a net-zero emissions future. Previously, she served as Director-General at the European Commission where she ran the internal strategy department, reporting directly to the President. An entrepreneur at heart, Ann set up her own think tank which she ran for more than a decade. Her career started at the World Economic Forum where she led the Europe department.
Ann has lived and worked in Germany, Greece, the United States, Switzerland and Belgium. She holds MA degrees in political science and European law and economics, and graduated with distinction from the University of New Mexico, USA, and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn, Germany.

He is Chairman and CEO of Iberdrola, and Chairman of ScottishPower, AVANGRID and Neoenergia. Since he joined Iberdrola in 2001, his vision for international expansion, renewable energies and sustainability has transformed the company into one of the largest in the sector, providing energy to over 100 million people in dozens of countries.

He is Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde in the UK, and by the University of Salamanca in Spain. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde and Chairman of the Social Council of the University of Salamanca. He is also on the Presidential CEO Advisory Board of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He is a member of the Electricity Cluster at the World Economic Forum and a member of the Steering Committee of the European Round Table for Industry and of JP Morgan International Council.

Among other recognitions, in 2019 he was selected as one the best five world CEOs on the Harvard Business Review Ranking, and he was recognised by Bloomberg as one of the 30 leaders in the fight against climate change. In 2017 he was named Best CEO in the European utilities sector for the eleventh time by Institutional Investor and in 2014, he was named a Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, by Queen Elizabeth II.

Mr Mateo Alcalá, with nearly 40 years of experience in the electricity sector, is one of the most experienced professionals in the renewable-energy sector, having played an active role in the global shift from fossil fuels to renewable energies. He joined ACCIONA Energía as General Manager in 2010 and became its Chief Executive Officer in 2013, the position he currently holds.
Mr Mateo Alcalá’s professional career began in 1982. Prior to joining the Company, he held different positions during his long trajectory in Endesa, notably, as production director of Endesa Generación, managing director of Endesa Generación Latam, and chief executive officer of Endesa Chile (NYSE: EOC). He has wide-ranging knowledge of Latin-American markets, having managed a broad generation portfolio in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru. He also served as president of Unipede-Eurelectric’s production group.
Mr Mateo Alcalá holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Higher Technical School of the University of Zaragoza, having received an extraordinary honors award. He has also completed a general management program at IESE Business School and a business management program at INSEAD.

Bernabei began working at Enel in 1999 as Logistics Manager for Enel Distribuzione and, later, as Supply Chain Manager, Project Manager and Contract Manager for geothermal and wind power projects in Italy. Later he covered various management roles at Enel Green Power in Engineering and Construction as well as Safety and Environment in Iberia, Latin America and Europe. After an interlude as Head of Operations and Maintenance of Renewables in Iberia, he was appointed Country Manager of Chile and Andean Countries for Enel Green Power and, successively, Head of Renewable Energies Latin America. From May 2017 to September 2020 he was the Group’s Head of Global Procurement. From October 2020 he’s the CEO of Enel Green Power and the Head of Enel Global Power Generation of Enel Group.

Mr Bernabei graduated from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Engineering Management and wrote his final thesis at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He completed a master’s degree in Net Business Administration at the Polytechnic University of Milan and participated in the INSEAD International Executive Programme in Singapore and Paris, as well as in the Leadership for Energy Management Programme at the SDA Bocconi School of Management (Milan) and the IESE Business School in Barcelona.

Christophe GRUDLER is a French Member of the European Parliament (MEP), member of the Renew Europe group.
Historian and journalist by training, his political commitment started at an early stage of his career. He is particularly involved at the local level in his hometown, Belfort, where he was elected as a local representative several times.
Within the European Parliament, he is Vice-Coordinator of the ITRE Committee (Industry, research and energy) for the Renew Europe group. He is also a member of the Foreign Affairs (AFET) and Security and Defence (SEDE) committees. Furthermore, he is Vice President of the Sky & Space Intergroup of the European Parliament.
MEP Grudler is particularly involved on energy and industry related topics. He has been appointed as rapporteur for the European Parliament on the Own Initiative report on Energy System Integration, and as shadow rapporteur on the report on Batteries and Waste Batteries.

Jon André Løkke was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nel Hydrogen, effective 4 January 2016. Mr. Løkke comes from the position as CEO of Norsk Titanium AS, developing and industrializing 3D printing technology for the production of titanium components for the aerospace and other industries. He has ten years’ experience from the REC Group, including positions as senior vice president in REC Wafer, investor relations officer in REC ASA, and CFO in REC ASA. Mr. Løkke has also worked for the ABB Group and holds an International MBA degree from Glasgow University and a Bachelor degree in business and economics from Southampton University.

Vaitea Cowan co-founded Enapter with Sebastian-Justus Schmidt and Jan-Justus Schmidt since they worked together on the Phi Suea House project in 2016. Previously, she spoke on panels in the mobile apps technology sphere, and then returned to renewables. Multilingual, she connects the industry to accelerate the deployment of decentralized green hydrogen production. She is on the Forbes Under 30 in Energy 2020 list, and has won several awards for Enapter. She is a founding member of the Women in Green Hydrogen group, and has the clear intention of inspiring and hiring more women at Enapter. Today she spearheads the communications efforts from Berlin. As a Pacific Islander, her personal mission is to provide clean energy independence to Polynesia.

Paulina Brzezicka is an Advisor focused on Innovation Finance at the European Investment Bank. She works directly with project promoters and companies on the structuring of transactions to help them access funding. She also works on the development of new European financial instruments and initiatives in high priority sectors with a focus on climate action, including topics related to hydrogen, circular- and bio-economy.

Paulina is an experienced banker with a background in mergers and acquisitions (Bank of America Merrill Lynch), private equity (European Investment Fund equity investments team) and an economics-focused educational background from University College London, Bocconi University and Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Dr. Christian Hartel has been President & CEO of Wacker Chemie AG since May 2021.

Dr. Hartel was born in 1971, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. After graduating in Chemistry at the University of Konstanz, he earned a doctorate in Natural Sciences at the universities of Geneva (Switzerland) and Frankfurt am Main in 2000.

He then started his career as a consultant at Bain & Company Germany Inc., Munich. In 2003, he joined Wacker-Chemie GmbH, working initially in the Corporate Development department. Between 2005 and 2009, he occupied various managerial positions in Sales & Marketing, product development, and production at WACKER SILICONES and WACKER BIOSOLUTIONS. In 2010, he became head of Raw Materials Procurement at Wacker Chemie AG. In 2012, he took over as President of WACKER SILICONES. He has been a member of Wacker Chemie AG’s Executive Board since 2015 and became President & CEO in May 2021.

Carina Krastel works at EIT InnoEnergy, a European public-private partnership, as the Commercial Director of the European Green Hydrogen Acceleration Center (EGHAC), an initiative supported by Breakthrough Energy.

The EGHAC will focus on supporting and accelerating large scale industrial green hydrogen projects which with massive CO2 reduction impact in hard to abate industrial value chains like steel making, fertilizer production, synthetic fuel production, shipping etc.

Carina Krastel is a sustainable energy engineer with experience in engineering, business and innovation. Since 2009, she has worked in the construction and the industrial gas industry on sustainable energy, air quality and innovation topics. Prior to joining InnoEnergy, Carina has worked as the Director for New Offers for the Energy Transition for the Large Industry Business of Air Liquide, a French industrial gas company, focusing on offers for green hydrogen and carbon capture solutions.

Sopna Sury started her career in management consultancy with McKinsey & Company. She mostly served clients in the financial services industry, and she also worked on transformation topics. She joined the energy industry in 2011 at E-ON where she has held various positions, such as leading the “Conventional and Renewables Services” as Director Energy Solutions, steering of the portfolio strategy for Renewables as Director Business Development & Business Affairs as well as member of the inhouse consulting’s management team. 2016-2019 she was responsible for the area Energy Services & Infrastructure with Uniper. As Director Strategy & Regulatory Affairs she has been since Oct 2019 driving the strategy development, regulatory affairs and integration management for RWE Renewables.
As of Feb 2021 Sopna Chief Operational Officer Hydrogen of the RWE Generation SE board, responsible for coordinating and driving the hydrogen activities for RWE.

Sopna Sury has a master’s degree in economics and has holds a doctorate from the University of Witten/Herdecke.

Since November 2020 Deputy Director-General at DG GROW, previously Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ms Rute joined the European Commission in 2005 to become Director for the SME policy, bringing in her previous management experience from the Estonian business and export financing and the Estonian central bank.
Ms Rute also worked as Director for Biotechnologies, Food and Agriculture Research and as a Resource Director in DG Research and Innovation.
Ms Rute graduated as an agricultural economist from the Estonian University of Life Sciences and holds an MBA from the Danube University Krems, Austria, and a Masters in international politics from CERIS, Belgium.

Nils is co-founder of Sunfire GmbH, a global leader for industrial electrolyzers founded in 2010. As CEO and Managing Director, he is responsible for the strategic positioning and leadership of the company. Since 2016, Nils has been a member of the Board of Directors and Energy Chair of the European hydrogen and fuel cell association Hydrogen Europe. This association represents the interests of over 200 industrial companies and research institutions in Europe. In 2020, Nils was appointed by the European Commission to the CEO group of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance.
Nils studied business administration and business law at the European Business School and Universidade Nova de Lisboa.