Christian Baer has over 15 years of professional experience in the energy sector. Since 2015, he has served as the Secretary General of Europex, the Association of European Energy Exchanges. In this capacity, he represents 35 member companies on EU energy, climate, and financial services policy matters, working closely with the EU institutions and other key stakeholders. He is also an active member of various stakeholder committees and advisory boards. Before joining Europex, Christian worked at the European Energy Exchange (EE😆 from 2011-2015 and at Areva from 2009-2010. He holds a master’s degree in international security from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po).

Aude Filippi is Director for Business Development for Gas & Sustainability Markets at European Energy Exchange (EE😆. Aude is in charge of developing commodity trading and services at EEX with a special focus leading the business towards a more sustainable economy. This encompasses notably the development of hydrogen and other renewable gas markets, energy certification and carbon markets. She joined EEX in 2010 and has been working in regulatory affairs on top of business development.

Marcel Steinbach is a financial economist and has been working as a consultant, trader and head of BDEW’s energy trading department.

Since January 2023, he is supporting SEFE's CEO, Dr Egbert Laege, in all regulatory matters and heads the Regulatory Affairs Department.

He focusses on accelerating the group’s renewable agenda to enable SEFE’s Customers to move towards new gases and hydrogen.

Bert den Ouden is Project Director of the “HyXchange” Hydrogen Exchange initiative, supported by Dutch gas operator Gasunie and four Dutch port authorities, and involvement of over 70 market parties. The HyXchange development program contains a Hydrogen certificate pilot, a Hydrogen spot market simulation and other development of a hydrogen pricing index. Earlier, Bert den Ouden was founder and CEO of APX-ENDEX, the energy exchange in Netherlands, Belgium and UK. He realized the “market coupling” to integrate the EU electricity markets and led the growth of the TTF gas hub, as well as Belgian and UK (NBP) gas markets.