Giulia Branzi is the Head of Climate Policies & Decarbonization Market Design at SNAM, one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure operators and one of the largest Italian listed companies in terms of market capitalisation. Prior to joining SNAM, Giulia has worked as a regulatory economist for the UK water and energy regulators Ofwat and Ofgem, as well as at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, covering energy policy and regulatory issues across the Bank’s Countries of Operation in Central Asia.

Juan de Miguel Salanova is an industrial engineer for the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), specialised in energy technologies, and has more than 20 years of experience working in energy regulation and management of EU funding programmes in the energy sector. After working for the Spanish electricity TSO and the Spanish and French Energy Commissions, in 2011 he started working for the EU at the European Agency for the Coordination of Energy Regulators (ACER) and since 2015 he works for the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Energy (CINEA) of the European Commission. Over 10 years of the CEF-Energy programme, he has supervised the implementation of 80+ EU-funded projects in gas and CO2 networks with a total EU funding of nearly 2 billion EUR, and since 2024 he is responsible for the Hydrogen, Smart gas grids and CO2 Networks sectors.

Steven has been Managing Director of Interconnector UK since 2018. He has been project leader for several M&A and Business Development projects at Fluxys (acquisition of a stake in the EUGAL pipeline, development of Transshipment Services for Yamal LNG at the Zeebrugge LNG terminal). Prior work experience as developer of renewable energy projects.

Dr Matthias Janssen is an Associate Director in Frontier Economics’ German offices in Cologne and Berlin. He regularly advises leading market players and public institutions on a wide range of questions around market design, regulation, climate policy, private-sector disputes (litigation) and due diligence in commoditized energy markets, with a focus on electricity, gas and hydrogen markets.

Matthias has comprehensive experience with analysing the European gas market. For example, he has been conducting studies to assess the European Commission’s Joint Gas Purchasing Mechanism (AggregateEU) or to inform the European Commission’s impact assessment on hydrogen network regulation. Equally, he has been supporting multiple energy utilities in disputes in long-term gas supply contracts. During the energy crisis he has been providing expert reports to support the application of various LNG terminal operators in Europe to apply for an exemption from energy regulation.

Before joining Frontier in 2011, Matthias worked as a researcher at the Department of Economic Theory at the University of Muenster, Germany. During his PhD he focussed on analysing electricity and gas pricing in liberalized energy markets.

Hans-Joachim Polk joined RWE Dea AG in 1991. In the course of his professional career, Polk spent 3.5 years working for RWE Dea in Cairo before returning to Germany, where he was responsible as Head of Operations for production from Germany’s largest oilfield, Mittelplate and as Senior Vice President Field Development RWE Dea. As Managing Director of RWE Dea Norge from 2011-2013, Polk optimized the license portfolio and intensified exploration activities in Norway. Before joining VNG AG in 2013 he was appointed Managing Director of RWE Dea UK Holdings Limited. As a Member of the Executive Board of VNG he is now responsible for Infrastructure and Technical Affairs. In addition to his function at VNG Hans-Joachim Polk is Member of the Supervisory Board of several VNG subsidiaries, e.g. ONTRAS Gastransport GmbH and Erdgasspeicher Peissen GmbH. In 2014 he was elected as a Member of the Board and Vice-President of the German-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce.