Capacity Mechanisms in the EU Energy Markets

Leigh Hancher holds several chairs at European universities. She began her academic career as a lecturer in law Warwick University in 1984, obtained her PhD at the University of Leiden in 1986, and was appointed Professor of Economic Law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1990. She has worked in private practice since 1990 and is currently Special Counsel to Baker Botts PLC. She has published widely on both EU state aid law and EU energy law over the last 4 decades.

Adrien de Hauteclocque is the Head of Cabinet of the President of the General Court of the European Union and a Principal Adviser of the Florence School of Regulation (European University Institute). His research interests include EU competition and state aid law, competition policy in network industries, and the law & economics of energy regulation. Before moving to the EU institutions, he pursued his academic career at the University of Manchester and at the European University Institute where he co-founded the "EU Energy Law & Policy" Area of the Florence School of Regulation. He is a regular speaker at international conferences and also holds regular teaching commitments for the Legal Task Force of the Council of European Energy Regulators (Belgium), Ecole Nationale d'Administration (France), and at HEC Paris (France). He obtained his PhD in Law from the University of Manchester and holds a MSc in Management from EM Lyon (France) and a MSc in Economic Policy from Strathclyde University.

Kaisa Huhta is a Senior Researcher and an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow at the UEF Law School and at the Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law. Her research focuses on EU energy law. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters, expert statements and other publications and her work has appeared in top level international journals such as the European Law Review and the International and Comparative Law Quarterly. Dr. Huhta actively carries out consultancy work in the field of EU and Finnish energy law.

Ma/lgorzata Sadowska is a Policy Officer at ACER's Electricity Department, working on resource adequacy and security of supply. Before joining ACER, she worked at the Irish energy regulator, and prior to that she was a research fellow at the European University Institute, Florence School of Regulation, and Tilburg Law and Economics Center, Tilburg University, in the area of energy regulation and competition policy. Ma/lgorzata holds a PhD in Law and Economics (EDLE, 2013) and a Masters degrees in Law (University of Gda'nsk, 2006) and European Studies (University of Hamburg, 2008).