REMARC2026

Coordinator

Zoltán Nagy-Bege, Energy Market director at CEA, brings more than 16 years of experience at the Romanian Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE), where he held senior leadership positions, including Vice President and Director across several key departments such as the Natural Gas Market, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy and Cogeneration, and Thermal Energy. He also contributed in non-executive roles, serving as a member of the Regulatory Committee.

Over the past two years, he has led the regulatory practice at Ciga Energy Advisory, where he has been responsible for a range of projects focused on energy markets and regulatory policy.

Research Team

CEA Team

Luciana Cotutiu is the Deputy Director of the European Finance Department at RCI. With over 20 years of experience in public administration, she coordinated the preparation of programming documents by conducting informal negotiations with the European Commission services for 2014-2020 and 2021-2027 as well as for the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. She has an in-depth knowledge of the institutional mechanisms at European and national level, of the political and regulatory aspects related to the financing of national strategic projects. Luciana stands out for her expertise in the field of programs with both European and international funding, with a deep knowledge of the working methods of national, regional and central authorities. She also has a deep knowledge of the management cycle of projects financed from European funds managed directly by the European Commission.

Raul Toma, Managing Partner at EVOLVE, has more than 25 years of expertise in power utility sector, in DSOs and in services provided for distribution operators, experience in wholesale electricity market: forecasting and acquisition of electricity, experience in electricity metering: AMR systems, smart metering, experience in identifying, determining and reducing losses in electricity distribution grid and experience in providing services to distribution operators in terms of electricity measurement and field detection of fraudulent electricity consumption

HAEE Team

Prof. Dr. Kostas Andriosopoulos is Af. Professor in Finance and Energy Management and the Director of the HELLENiQ ENERGY Center for Sustainability and Energy @Alba Graduate Business School. Kostas is a member in various professional and academic associations, including President of the Energy Committee of the American Hellenic Chamber of Commerce; Founder, former Chairman and active Member of the BoD of the Hellenic Association for Energy Economics; board member of the Global Gas Center - World Energy Council as a Gas and LNG markets expert; member of the board of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE); founding board member of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society. As of August 2018, he is the Country Manager of Akuo Energy in Greece.

Konstantinos Sfetsioris is Senior Project Manager at Hellenic Association for Energy Economics. He holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering with a postgraduate degree in Energy Production and Management from National Technical University of Athens. Since 2019, he has been an Advisor to the General Secretariat for Energy & Mineral Resources at the Ministry of Environment and Energy. He is a Regular Member of the Committee for the drafting of the National Hydrogen Strategy.

Ilias Tsopelas holds a bachelor (BSc) and a master’s (MEng) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He is currently working as a Research Associate at the Hellenic Association for Energy Economics (HAEE), participating in EC-funded projects. His research profile focuses mainly on energy system modelling and analysis, and energy and climate policy assessment. He also has a computational research background.