Director FSR
IERN President ad interim
Jean-Michel Glachant

Jean-Michel Glachant is Member of the EU-Russia Gas Advisory Council of Commissioner Oettinger (EC), he is or has been an adviser to DG TREN, DG COMP, DG RESEARCH and DG ENERGY at the European Commission and to the French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE). He is or was coordinator or scientific adviser of several European research projects such as THINK, SESSA, CESSA, Reliance, EU-DEEP, RefGov, TradeWind, Secure, Optimate and he is part of the Advisory Board of the E-Price project. . He is research partner of the CEEPR at the MIT in the US, of the EPRG at Cambridge University, and of the EEI at the University of Leuven. Jean-Michel Glachant is chief-editor of "EEEP: Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy", the new journal of the International Association for Energy Economics. At Paris Sud he founded a European Masters degree "Erasmus Mundus" entitled EMIN (Economics and Management of Network Industries).

Jean-Michel Glachant is Professor of Economics. He was appointed full Professor of Economics at La Sorbonne in 1999. In autumn 2000 he moved to University Paris Sud where he became Head of the Department of Economics. He is at the EUI since 2008.

Executive Assistant of the IERN President
Ilaria Galimberti

Ilaria Galimberti is an officer at the Strategy, Studies and Documentation Department of the Italian Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas (AEEG) and the Chair the FSR/IERN coordination Task Force.

IERN Coordinator
Alessandro Rubino

Alessandro Rubino's research interests cover Investment under Uncertainty; System Operator Incentive Regulation and the Development of Regional Energy Markets.

Alessandro studied Economics at Siena University (Italy). He worked for the Italian Institute of Foreign Trade (ICE) as Junior Expert for the privatisation and liberalisation of the Macedonian Electricity market. He also worked as "Regulatory Economist" at the British Regulatory Authority (OFGEM) between January 2008 and June 2009. Alessandro is Junior Expert in the EC project "Paving the way for the Mediterranean Solar Plan".

Alessandro holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Siena. He is also MA in Economics of International Trade from Antwerp University (BE) and MSC in Business Analysis from Staffordshire University (UK).

alessandro.rubino@eui.eu

IERN Project Assistant
Francesca Pia Vantaggiato

Francesca Pia Vantaggiato studied European Studies at the European College of Parma. There, she wrote her Masters thesis on “EU Energy Policy VS Member States Energy Policies towards Russia: the case of Italy, Germany, France". She lived in Russia for a year and a half for work and research reasons: her interests ranged from energy-related issues ("Siberia between myth and reality: Soviet policies of exploitation of Siberian natural resources in the '60s and the '70s") to Russian nationalism in contemporary Russia. She also studied Conference Interpreting at university level. Francesca joined the Florence School of Regulation in February 2011.

Francesca obtained a post-graduate high level diploma in European Studies at the European College of Parma. in 2009 she graduated in Conference Interpreting at the School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators of the University of Bologna (Forlì campus), after obtaining her BA degree in Interpreting and Translation at the same institution.

francesca.vantaggiato@eui.eu

iern.secretariat@eui.eu

iern@iern.net

FSR Research Assistant
Emanuela Michetti

Emanuela Michetti's research interests cover Industrial Organisation, Regulation, Competition and Network Industries (in particular Energy and Rail Transport). Emanuela is an economist and studied at the University of Siena. She was also an exchange student at Oxford Brookes University (2002), as well as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Leicester (from 2006 to 2008). Before joining the Florence School of Regulation in May 2010, Emanuela worked for a few years in the economic consulting industry and specialised in the regulation of the energy sector.

Emanuela holds a Ph.D. in Law and Economics (2009) and a M.Sc. cum laude in Economics (2004), both from the University of Siena.