Scientific Researcher at the Foundation for Science and Technology – FCT, Portugal. PhD student in Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and Master in Legal and Political Sciences by the same institution (2013). He was a visiting researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of Seville, Spain (2019). Coordinator of the books "The Energy Law in the Iberian-Brazilian Context" (Synergia, 2017 and 2020) and "Energy in Times of Pandemic" (EVEx, 2020). Co-organizer of the “Energy Law Dossier” (Revista Videre, 2019). Author of the scientific project of CONIBEN – Iberian-Brazilian Energy Conference, as well as several articles and book chapters published in Brazil and Portugal. Lawyer and Legal Consultant. Caio received a scholarship from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), Ministry of Education of Brazil.

President of MegaWhat Consulting. Experience in the energy sector since 2001, with emphasis on sector regulation, risk analysis and portfolio management of energy contracts. A background in consumption, generation and trading, in the Brazilian and Peruvian energy markets, in companies such as Cepel, TBG, Braskem, Odebrecht Energia e Comerc Energia. Bachelor’s degrees in Chemical Engineering and Law, Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, and postgraduate degrees in Financial Product Management and Risk Management.

Full Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the R&D Institute INESC Coimbra, and member of the coordination committee of the Energy for Sustainability Initiative of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering (Optimization and Systems Theory) at the University of Coimbra in 1992. He is Editor of Energy Policy and member of the Editorial Board of the EURO Journal on Decision Processes, Journal of Energy Markets, Sustainable Cities and Society, and Energies.

Professor of Business Law at the University of Almería, Spain. PhD in Business Law from the University of Vigo, Spain. President of the Iberoamerican Institute for Legal Studies – IBEROJUR, Portugal.

Professor and Strategic Advisor at FGV Energia. Professor of the Graduate Program at the Brazilian Naval War College and Army Command and Staff College, via an agreement with FGV. PhD in Energy Planning, Master in Information Technology and two published books on Petropolitics. Professional experience in relevant companies, in Brazil and abroad, as Petrobras, Deloitte, Vale S.A., Gama Filho University and Dickinson Maritime Agency. At FGV Energia, she is responsible for coordinating the MBA in Management in the Oil and Gas Sector, all over the country, and for the research lines in oil, gas, biofuels and energy transition, notably: Decommissioning, Downstream, Low permeability reservoirs, Natural gas reserves, Energy planning and Geopolitics of energy resources.

Head of Legal of the Portuguese Energy Regulatory Authority – ERSE and member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER). Law graduate of NOVA School of Law with a Master´s degree in legal-economic sciences from the same University. He attended the accounting and finance program of Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics and has post-graduate qualifications in Energy Law awarded by the University of Lisbon and in Regulation of Energy Utilities awarded by the Florence School of Regulation/European University Institute . He began his career in Garrigues law firm, become lawyer and senior legal advisor at the Portuguese Markets Regulatory Commission and was lecturer in the Portuguese School of Bank Management. In addition to his master's thesis, under the title “Duty of Disclosure by Issuers”, he has published several papers with regulatory relevance mostly in energy and is a frequent conference speaker.

Degree in Law, University of Lisbon (2003); Master in Public Law, University of Lisbon (2009); PHD in Public Law, University of Lisbon (2016); Assistant Professor, University of Lisbon (2016-); Legal advisor and lecturer in the fields of Administrative Law, Energy Law, Data Protection Law, Construction Law, Environmental Law (2004-); Author of several books and papers concerning Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and European Union Law.

Lawyer. She holds an MS and a PhD in energy from University of São Paulo – USP. She holds an MS in Law from the University of Oklahoma (USA). Master’s in law (PUC/SP). She is Postdoc in Sustainability and Energy at USP. Hirdan is Collaborating Professor at Energy Program, at Institute of Energy and Environment (PPGE/IEE/USP), Coordinator of Projects at RCGI/SHELL E&P Brazil/FAPESP Deputy Director of Energy Policy and Economics Program, both from RCGI/FAPESP/Shell.

Law degree from the Coimbra Faculty of Law (2009) and master degree in administrative law from the same institution (2011). Between 2012 and 2015, she worked as an advisor to the Portuguese Constitutional Court Judge's Office. She is currently a Guest Assistant at Porto Law School of the Catholic University of Portugal, where she teaches Constitutional law, Energy Law and European Union Law. She is the author and co-author of several scientific works in the areas of Constitutional law, Energy law and European Union law. Full CV at https://www.cienciavitae.pt/en/8915-ACBD-5585.

Lecturer and Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. She is the author of the book "Smart Grids and the Crafting of Infrastructure Regulation" (Synergia, 2015) and several academic articles and book chapters. Since 2016, serves as a member of the editorial board of Revista do Direito da Energia (Brasil).

D.Sc. Professor of Institute of Economics at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, teaches disciplines in undergraduation and graduation courses on the power industry. Professor Castro also coordinates the Research Group of the Power Sector (GESEL), in which projects and papers on auctions, regulation, funding and corporate finance of the power industry are developed. Recently, a new research line was created on Corporate Governance of the Public Sector. The book Séries das empresas do setor elétrico (Series of the Power Sector Firms) is annually published with the support of Eletrobrás. Castro is also editor of the power sector newsletter–IFE that has more than 2000 issues.

Graduated in Chemical Engineering in 2009 by PUC-PR and Master in Chemical Engineering with an emphasis on Clean Fuels in 2012 by UFPR, she did part of her undergraduate studies in France at the Universitè de Technologie de Compiègne – UTC, in 2008. In this period, participated of the development team of the Futurol innovation project focused on energy cogeneration systems and second generation biofuels production. In 2015, she became a specialist in Event Management and Corporate Communication. Between 2016 and 2017, she worked in the coordination team of the Executive Secretariat of the Smart Energy Paraná Project. Currently, she works as a collaborative consultant developing solutions that promote energy decarbonization, efficient management and internationalization of businesses aimed at industry, civil construction and agribusiness. She is also the founder of NRGHUB – 1st Energy Hub in Brazil.

PhD degree from Técnico Lisboa, University of Lisbon. He is currently an Associate Professor at Técnico Lisboa and a senior researcher at INESC-ID. He lectures two MSc courses, one on Economy and Energy Markets, and another on Renewable Energy, and a PhD course on Renewable Energy Resources. He participated on several research projects in collaboration with the industry. He published two books and more than 50 papers on top international journals on several topics, as impact of PV systems on the distribution grid, demand side management, offshore wind parks, allocation of resources on smart-grids, water pumped storage systems and battery energy systems.

Master degree in Electrical Engineering and Computers from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is advisor of the System Operator division with REN - Rede Eléctrica Nacional S.A. (Portuguese TSO). Responsible for the development of the wind and solar forecast tools for REN. Project leader on the research centre R&D NESTER. He has worked in several WG of CIGRE, ENTSO-E and European projects funded by FP6, FP7 and H2020. He is also invited Professor at ISEL – Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon. He received the title of Expert in Energy by the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon. He received the “CIGRE Technical Committee Award”..

PhD degree from Escola Politénica, University of São Paulo – USP. She lectures Law of Electric and Regulatory Energy, in addition to the history of the Brazilian electricity sector. She was invited Professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas´s associated school and USP/Fundação Vanzolini – postgraduation and MBA. She worked at Brazilian Electricity Commercialization Chamber – CCEE for eighteen years, initially as legal manager and then as Counselor and Vice President. She was an alternate member of the Brazilian Monitoring Committee of the Electricity Sector – CMSE from 2014 to 2020. Member of the Energy Law Commission of OAB – São Paulo. Member of the Board of Directors of Cigré Brazil since 2019. Performance and publications in the areas of Electric Energy Law, Regulatory Law, Sustainability, Commercialization and Electricity Market.

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto (FEUP), Professor at FEUP and Senior Researcher at INESC Tec, Porto. Chair of the Executive Board of the National Energy and Geology Laboratory (LNEG). Chairman (since 2016) of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Electric Vehicle Association. Founding member of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) and member of the Executive Committee, he assumed the Vice-Presidency until 2017. Vice-President of the European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance (eseia). National representative on the International Energy Agency's Committee of Energy Research and Technology. Member and rapporteur of the Advisory Group for Education and Teaching in Energy. Member of the Consultative Group of the Integrated Roadmap H2020 and H2020 on research infrastructures, including e-infrastructures. Vice-President of the Expert Group on Resource Management of United Nations.

Executive Secretary of the Latin American Energy Organization – OLADE. The Engineer Blanco Bonilla has a long and distinguished career as an Energy and Environment specialist in Latin America and the Caribbean, leading sector transformation processes, in front of entities, projects and equipment. He has provided advice at the level of decision-making on regulatory issues, energy policy, project formulation and evaluation, business development and financing models in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has participated in the formulation, evaluation, execution, start of operations, senior management of organizations and programs for the public, private and direct liaison with international organizations. He was a consultant to the World Bank, IDB, CAF and the United Nations on energy and environment issues. Alfonso Blanco Bonilla was one of the leaders of the renowned process of transformation of the Uruguayan energy sector initiated in 2005.

Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Malaga, full-time for 24 years. Since 2017 Full Professor in Administrative Law. She has over fifty publications, including 5 monographs published by prestigious national publishers and 4 directed collective works, articles in prestigious journals in her field of knowledge and a number of book chapters. Her research interests are: the municipal public domain; renewable energy and energy efficiency, the environment and tourism; animal health and food safety. Since its inception in 2010, founder and Director of the Law Review of Educational Research and Innovation –REJIE.

Managing Director at Berkeley Research Group and a member of its International Arbitration Practice. He is also Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute of The Americas in La Jolla, CA conducting research on renewable energy sources and energy transition, and professor of Energy Economics at CEARE, the University of Buenos Aires. He has 25 years of professional experience in public utility regulation and economics, he has provided oral/written testimony in more than 20 international arbitration cases and has also served as Undersecretary of Energy Tariff Policy (2015 – 2017) and as Chairman of the Board of Argentina’s Electricity Regulator (ENRE) between January 2018 and January 2020. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering (1990, summa cum laude) from a public university in Argentina and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin (1995).