Michael Mehling is Deputy Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and a Professor at the University of Strathclyde Law School. For over two decades, he has worked on climate policy design and implementation at the intersection of energy, environmental, trade and financial market policy, advising policy makers in over a dozen countries, testifying before or briefing legislators in the U.S., the U.K., and the EU, and serving as an expert in several climate litigation and arbitration cases. In these issue areas, he has helped launch a number of initiatives, serving as a founding board member, inter alia, of the European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST) in Brussels, the Blockchain & Climate Institute (BCI) in London, and the Ecologic Institute in Washington, DC, as well as the founding editor of Carbon & Climate Law Review (CCLR), the first academic quarterly journal focused on climate law and regulation. His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals in international law, environmental law and policy, and climate and energy law and policy, and his subject-matter expertise has featured in mainstream media outlets including Bloomberg, The Economist, Financial Times, Globe and Mail, National Public Radio, NBC News, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Trained as a lawyer (LL.M.; Ph.D.), he is a German and American citizen, and has lived for extended periods in Europe, the United States, and Latin America.

Dr. Kong Chyong is an applied energy economist and policy analyst with a strong background and more than fifteen years of experience applying economics and operational research methods to energy and climate policy questions. Kong graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MPhil in Technology Policy and a PhD in Energy Economics and Policy. His research interests include energy system economics and modelling to understand deep decarbonisation pathways, large-scale power market modelling, economic modelling of global gas and LNG markets, geopolitics and economics of Russian natural gas exports, and Russo-Ukrainian bilateral relations. His PhD topic concerned Russia’s strategic natural gas export policy and Gazprom’s pipeline investment strategy. Before his studies at Cambridge University, Kong was a researcher at the National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine.

Maciej M. Sokołowski, PhD, DSc, is a specially appointed associate professor at the Faculty of Policy Management of Keio University, also affiliated with the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. Professor Sokołowski has extensive experience in energy law and the energy sector; he has authored 100 papers and reports on the energy sector, including three solo books on energy regulation, combined heat and power, and the energy transition. Professor Sokołowski is a fellow of several institutions and networks, including the Sustainability College Bruges, the SI Network for Future Global Leaders, the Polish Electricity Association, the Australian Network for Japanese Law, the Japan Association of EU Studies, and the Japan Society of Public Utility Economics. He has been awarded numerous distinctions, including the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, the Swedish Institute Visby Programme scholarship, and the Prime Minister of Poland’s Research Award. In 2024, Professor Sokołowski was named one of Stanford University’s “World’s Top 2% Scientists”. He is also a Lead Author by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities, being responsible for Chapter 4: "How to Facilitate and Accelerate Change".

Juan Palacios is an applied environmental and real estate economist working as an assistant professor at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, department of Finance. He is also a visiting assistant professor at the MIT Center for Real Estate and the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, and is affiliated with IZA — Institute of Labor Economics. Professor Palacios’ research concentrates on various topics in environmental, health, and real estate economics. His current research agenda includes estimating the consequences of environmental risks on human health and performance, and the associated behavioral responses. He has taught courses in environmental economics, applied econometrics, real estate economics, and finance. His research has been covered by The Guardian, BBC, The Times, Bloomberg, Brookings, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Marginal Revolution, and the Economisch Statistische Berichten (EBS), among others.

David Reiner is Professor of Technology Policy and Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group at Judge Business School. He is also a research associate of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at MIT. His research focuses on energy and climate change politics, policy, economics, regulation, and public attitudes, with a particular focus on the political and economic challenges of reaching net zero, greenhouse gas removals and hard-to-decarbonise sectors such as residential heating, energy-intensive industry and aviation. He has served on various international expert panels including the CCUS Council, which is chaired by the UK Energy Minister, the International Civil Aviation Organization’s Fuels Task Group and the International Energy Agency’s Technology and Innovation Advisory Board.

Wojciech Bujalski, PhD, Professor of the University, has been working for over 20 years at the Institute of Heat Engineering, Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology. Since 2020, he has served as the Director of the Institute. He is also the Secretary of the Committee on Research Problems of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has authored or co-authored over 70 scientific publications of both national and international scope and has extensive research experience. Prof. Bujalski has led or participated in more than 11 publicly funded research projects. He has a long-standing collaboration with the industrial sector, having managed or contributed to more than 50 industry-commissioned projects. His professional background includes five years of experience at the Warsaw District Heating Company. His research interests focus primarily on the optimization of energy systems, particularly district heating. A significant portion of his work addresses heat and cold storage technologies. For these contributions, he was awarded the Siemens Research Prize for the study “Development and Implementation of a Scientific Basis for the Design and Optimization of the Control of Heat Accumulators in District Heating Systems,” in which he was one of three lead authors. He is also engaged in the economic aspects of the energy sector. He expanded his expertise in this area through postgraduate studies in Capital Investment and Corporate Development Projects at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH). His current research includes topics related to distributed energy, with a particular focus on district heating, Smart City, and Smart Energy System concepts. In recent years, a significant part of Prof. Bujalski’s professional activity has been dedicated to supporting the transformation of the district heating sector — both through national-level strategic work and close cooperation with individual district heating companies. His efforts contribute to shaping the future direction of low-emission and efficient heating systems in Poland. He is a recognized expert in district heating and cogeneration. His standing in the field is reflected in his frequent participation in national and international conferences, where he has often served as a session chair or keynote speaker on district heating topics.

Prof. Jouhara is a Full Professor at Brunel University of London and a Fellow the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is also the Technical Director of Econotherm (UK) Limkited. Prof. Jouhara obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manchester, UK in 2004 and has a career in both the Industry and Academia since then. He is a Chair of Thermofluids at Brunel and the Founder and Head of the Heat Pipe and Thermal Management Research Group and the Principal Investigator of many national and international projects in the areas of multiphase heat transfer and fluid dynamics, energy efficiency, renewable energy systems and innovative thermal management systems for electronics, nuclear and biomedical applications. Throughout his academic and industrial career, Prof Jouhara has received over £16M in direct grants fundings from the Industry, EPSRC, Innovate UK, EU, Royal Academy of Engineering and UK Atomic Energy Authority. Professor Jouhara was also the technical lead and coordinator of many Horizon EU projects. His innovative design methods have led to applications of the heat pipe technology in over 32 countries, and many granted international patents. The development of heat pipe heat exchangers, produced by Prof. Jouhara, has been applied in many industries, from high temperature processes such as recovering waste heat from ceramics, steel industry, food processing, solar PV thermal management and thermal energy storage using PCMs. His patents have been adopted and implemented by various multi-national companies such as S&P Coils Products Limited, Econotherm (UK) Limited, Flint Engineering Limited, Solex Thermal Science and Air Products PLC that funds many of Prof. Jouhara’s projects directly. Professor Jouhara’s research has been published in over 200 journal articles and over 300 other publications, including the publication of many books. Prof. Jouhara is the editor-in-chief of the Elsevier International Journal of Thermofluids Thermal Science and Engineering Progress Journal and an Editor of the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

After degrees in economics from Cambridge, Oxford and the LSE, Simon Taylor began 15 years of experience in the City, mainly as an equity analyst at JPMorgan and Citigroup. He was then deputy head of equity research at JPMorgan. He left the City in 2005 and joined Cambridge Judge Business School as Lecturer in Finance in April 2007. He was the Director of the Master of Finance programme from its start in 2008 till the summer of 2018. He is a Research Associate of the Electricity Policy Research Group at Cambridge University. In 2009, he was awarded a Pilkington University Teaching Prize. He is a Fellow of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. His book about the British nuclear power industry was published in 2007 and his book on the history of nuclear power in the UK was published in March 2016. His work on nuclear power was awarded the Judge Business School prize for research impact in 2017. In 2022 Simon became Director of the new Global Executive MBA programme.

John Parsons is the Deputy Director for Research at the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR). His research focuses on the valuation and financing of investments in energy markets, as well as the problems of risk in energy and environment markets. Recent publications have touched on the value of changing the utilization of transmission to maximize the value of hydro assets and expanded penetration of renewables, the value of investments in life extensions of nuclear power plants, the economics of new microreactors, and the impact of decarbonization on generation assets in the U.S. midcontinent. Dr. Parsons served as an Associate Member of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Dr. Parsons served as the Executive Director at both CEEPR and the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, and also as Head of Sloan’s MBA Finance Track. Before returning to MIT, Dr. Parsons spent ten years as a business consultant at Charles River Associates. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University and an A.B. from Princeton University.

Expert in nuclear energy, nuclear reactor technologies, and energy transition. He has participated in numerous national and international research projects in the field of nuclear technologies. Author of numerous analyses and expert opinions for the nuclear sector. Academic teacher and long-time faculty member at the Faculty of Energy and Fuels at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków. From 2020 to 2024, he served as Secretary General of the Polish Nuclear Society. From 2022 to 2024, Vice President of the European Nuclear Society. In October 2024, he was appointed Director of the Department of Nuclear Energy at the Ministry of Industry.

Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She previously served as the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. From March 2021 to October 2022, she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the U.S. Treasury, while on leave from UC Berkeley. Before leaving for government service, she was the Program Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Environment and Energy Economics Program and a research affiliate at the Energy Institute at Haas. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard. Wolfram has published extensively on the economics of energy markets. Her work has analyzed rural electrification programs in the developing world, energy efficiency programs in the US, the effects of environmental regulation on energy markets and the impact of privatization and market restructuring in the US and UK. She is currently working on projects at the intersection of climate, energy, and trade, including work on oil market sanctions. She received a PhD in Economics from MIT in 1996 and an AB from Harvard in 1989.

Deputy Director for Emissions Management at the Institute of Environmental Protection – National Research Institute (IOS-PIB) and Head of the National Centre for Emissions Management (KOBiZE). He has over 20 years of experience in climate and energy policy as well as sustainable development. Founder of the Centre for Climate and Energy Analyses (CAKE). For over a decade, he has led a team at the National Centre for Emissions Management. He serves as coordinator of EU-funded projects under the LIFE and Horizon programmes. Member of the Program Council of Local Trends and the Climate Leadership Program. Lecturer at Kozminski University. Government expert during the negotiations of the EU climate and energy package in 2008 and its subsequent implementation. Co-author of the architecture for Poland's climate protection financing mechanism – the Green Investment Scheme (GIS). Polish national expert on the evaluation of policies and measures, listed among the UNFCCC expert roster. Member of the government delegation at COP14, COP19, and COP25. Originator and editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine “CO2 Market Report” published by KOBiZE since 2012, as well as the publication “GO2’50”. Author and co-author of numerous analyses and publications on emissions trading and climate-energy policy, published in both national and international journals.

Dr Robert Basedow is an Associate Professor in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics and non-resident fellow at the Liechtenstein Institute at Princeton University. His research focuses on international trade and investment policy, international dispute settlement mechanisms and regulatory cooperation. Prior to joining the LSE, he was an official at the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, worked as consultant for the European Institutions, the German government and was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence.

Christopher Knittel is the Associate Dean of Climate, Energy, and Sustainability and the George P. Shultz Professor of Energy Economics in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He directs MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research which has served as the hub for social science research on energy and the environment since the late 1970s and is the Director of MIT’s new Climate Policy Center which works directly with policy makers to analyze existing, proposed, and potential policy measures. He joined the faculty at MIT in 2011, having taught previously at UC Davis and Boston University. At MIT he teaches Energy Economics and Policy to undergraduates, MBA students, and graduate students from outside of the Sloan School of Management. Professor Knittel received his B.A. in economics and political science from the California State University, Stanislaus in 1994 (summa cum laude), an M.A. in economics from UC Davis in 1996, and a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 1999. His research focuses on understanding how consumers and firms respond to changes in the energy environment, be it from prices or regulation, and what this means for the costs and benefits of policy. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and is the co-director of its Energy and Environmental Economics group. His research has appeared in The American Economic Review, The Journal of Political Economy, The American Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Industrial Economics, The Energy Journal and other academic journals.

Aleh Cherp is a professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University (Austria) and the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University (Sweden). His research focuses on feasibility of energy transitions and climate strategies, political economy of energy transitions, and energy security. He has widely published on these topics in leading academic journals including Nature Energy, Nature Climate Change, Energy Policy and Energy Research and Social Science. In 2024, Prof. Cherp was among the world's top 2% scientists according to Stanford/Elsevier's Top 2% Scientist Rankings. He is currently co-leading the NEW STEPS (Nuclear and Wind Scenarios for the Electrification of Sweden) project. In 2024, he served an expert for Scoping of the Seventh Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.In 2008-2012 he was the Convening Lead Analyst on Energy Security of the Global Energy Assessment. Aleh Cherp co-leads an inter-university research lab on technology change and energy transitions, POLET (www.polet.network). Since 2005, Prof. Cherp has been the coordinator for MESPOM, Erasmus Mundus Masters course in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, which CEU operates jointly with Lund University (Sweden), the University of Manchester (UK), and the University of the Aegean (Greece). In 2010-2012 Prof. Cherp served as the Academic Secretary and in 2008-2012 as the Research Director of CEU. Outside CEU, he served as a panel chair and an evaluator of the European Research Council, and the rapporteur of the Advisory Working Group on the Environment (including Climate Change) of the European Commission. Prof Cherp has also undertaken professional work for the European Environment Agency (EEA), UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank, and USAID among others. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Energy Research and Social Science.

Todor Arpad is a professor, the coordinator of the Master in Environmental Studies and Sustainable Development, and Ph.D. supervisor at the Faculty of Political Science within the National University of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA). He worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a public policy coordinator in projects related to EU affairs, international aid, and fake news, and currently is deputy director of DLFRU within the Euro-Atlantic Center for Resilience. He has worked with various NGOs on projects related to the implementation of European environmental and taxation policies, reform of the electoral system, reform of the financing of political parties, analysis of electoral campaigns, promotion of voting presence, preparation of financial mandates, monitoring of electoral expenses, constitutional reform, the introduction of mechanisms of transparency of the decision-making process, or analysis of public policies in the field of environment and sustainable development. His publications can be accessed at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arpad-Todor-2

Jurgita Malinauskaite is Professor of Law and the Head of Brunel Law School working at Brunel University of London since January 2008. Jurgita is also a visiting professor at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Her research expertise lies in energy law, waste law, and competition law also embracing interdisciplinary aspects. She has also published widely in leading journals, including: Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Energy Policy, Energy etc. Her recent books are as follows: the edited book - Hunter, Kraśniewski, Malinauskaite and Czernecka (2024) 'Routledge Handbook of Consumer Protection and Behaviour in Energy Markets' published by Routledge; the co-authored book with Jouhara Sustainable Energy Technology, Business Models, and Policies: Theoretical Peripheries and Practical Implications, published by Elsevier in 2023; and the single-authored book Harmonisation of EU Competition Law Enforcement published in 2019 by Springer. Jurgita has received a number of funding awards, including from the European Commission, and Innovate UK (the UK Research and Innovation).

Prof. Dr. Saulius Gudžius is a distinguished academic and energy sector leader from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). Holding a PhD in Energy and Thermal Engineering, he has significantly contributed to the development of sustainable energy solutions. As the former Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, he led initiatives such as KTU’s hybrid energy system, which integrates renewable energy sources to reduce campus energy consumption and has garnered attention from Lithuania's Parliament. His research focuses on enhancing the reliability and resilience of energy infrastructures, and he is an active member of the European Safety, Reliability & Data Association (ESReDA). In August 2024, Prof. Gudžius was appointed Director of the Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI), where he continues to drive innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration in the energy sector.