Commissioner for Energy

2019-present

Member of the Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament),  Chairman of the Estonian Centre

Party faction  and Leader of the Estonian NATO Parliamentary Assembly Delegation

2019

Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure

2016-2019

Member of the Riigikogu and Chairman of the Estonian Centre Party faction  (as of 2009)

2007-2016

Secretary-General of the Estonian Centre Party

2003-2007

Research  Assistant,  NATO Parliamentary Assembly

2003

Advisor to the Mayor of Tallinn

2001-2002

Advisor of Tallinn City Council

1999

Consultant,  European Documentation Centre of the University of Tartu

1998-1999

Master’s degree  in Political Science, University College London

2003

Degree in History, University of Tartu

Arshad Mansoor is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), responsible for the institute’s operation and portfolio of R&D and demonstration programs. Mansoor has been with EPRI for 21 years and previously served as SVP of research and development, and VP of the Power Delivery and Utilization sector.

Mansoor holds five U.S. patents in power electronics and distributed energy resources. He is a senior member of IEEE, served as VP of the U.S. National Committee of CIGRE, and is a member of the board for the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) at UNC Charlotte.

He earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology; and a M.S. (1992) and doctorate (1994) in electrical engineering from the University of Texas in Austin. He completed the MIT Reactor Technology Course and the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.

As an energy thought leader, Arshad Mansoor has been widely quoted on related matters in both national and global press and has presented in various forums worldwide including board briefings.  In addition, he has published numerous papers in journals and conference proceedings.

Catherine MacGregor joined the ENGIE group on 1 January 2021 as Chief Executive Officer. She has spent her entire professional career working in the energy sector.

From 2019 to 2020, she was a member of TechnipFMC Executive Committee and the head of Technip Energies, hosting the engineering activities. She was in charge of the entity’s IPO.

Previous to these positions, she has worked 23 years at Schlumberger, the world’s leading provider of reservoir characterization, drilling, production and processing technologies for the oil and gas industry. She occupied a number of roles in various geographies (Republic of Congo, the US, Malaysia, …): from Director of Business Entities (Wireline, Reservoir Characterization, Drilling, …) to Regional Division (Europe and Africa).

Sabine Erlinghagen is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the global Grid Software business at Siemens. She holds a PhD from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and has profound experience in the energy sector with a focus on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Customer Success, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Grid Software enables grid operators as well as industry and infrastructure companies to accelerate and secure the energy transition in a sustainable and profitable way. Grid Software connects the physical and the digital world with an integrated OT and IT landscape – following its design principles of modularity, openness, user-centricity, interoperability and resilience.

Wytse Kaastra leads Accenture’s Sustainability Services in Europe and is also the European Utilities lead. With approximately 26 years of experience in the Energy and Utilities arena he is an expert in the European energy sector. Experience ranges from strategic growth and transformation strategies as well as large scale execution & implementation programs across Europe. Projects spanning both the business side as well as the execution with digital, AI & cloud technologies.

Over the past couple of years much focus has been on Energy Transition related services such as Renewables, smart grids, eMobility, Green Hydrogen, Energy management, digital Decentralized & Decarbonized energy solutions and Flexibility services.

Prior to joining Accenture in 1997, Wytse started his career at ExxonMobil as an economist in the downstream area. Wytse holds a master degree in Economics from Wageningen University in The Netherlands.

Kristian Ruby took over as Secretary General of Eurelectric, effective 1 January 2017. Prior to his appointment, he worked at WindEurope as part of the Executive Management team where, in his capacity as Chief Policy Officer, he was in charge of developing and implementing the political strategy of the association. Mr Ruby previously also held positions as assistant to the former European Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard and served, for a number of years, as a public servant in the Danish Ministries of Climate and Energy as well as Environment.

Bruce Douglas has been working in renewable energy for 20 years. He is currently the Director of Communications and Business at Eurelectric a member-led association based in Brussels representing the European electric utility sector.

Previously he was Deputy CEO of SolarPower Europe, Coordinator of the RE-Source Platform – the European alliance for corporate sourcing of renewable energy – and the Co-Chairman of the Global Solar Council (GSC), the representative body for the entire global solar PV sector at an international level, representing over 2000 solar companies around the world. Before that he was Chief Operating Officer at WindEurope for 10 years, founding Secretary General of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Managing Director of FLiDAR, an offshore wind company.

He has a Master degree in renewable energy systems technology and is fluent in English and French.