Team

Gonçalo Coelho	Assistant of the Chair, PhD Student at the EUI Law Department Gonçalo Coelho holds a LL.M from the EUI (2009/2010) and a LL.M from the College of Europe in Bruges, specialising in “European Law and Economic Analysis” (2007/2008). He holds a Law degree (1998/2003) and Post-Graduations in Competition and Regulation Law (2006/2007) and Law Making and Science of the Legislation (2004) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. He worked in the private sector, as an Associate at White & Case LLP (Brussels Office) and at Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira (Lisbon Office); and in the public sector, as Legal Officer of the Cabinets of the Secretary of State of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and of the Secretary of State for Public Works and Communications (Lisbon). Mr. Coelho is a Lawyer with the Lisbon Bar Association (2005) and the Brussels Bar Association (2008). [+] Contact _____________________________________________________________________________
Adrien de Hauteclocque	Advisor Competition Policy Adrien de Hauteclocque is a referendaire at the General Court of the European Union (cabinet of Judge van der Woude). Besides coordinating the 'EU Energy Law & Policy' Area of the Florence School of Regulation, he is also research associate in the area of competition policy at the LdP Chair. Dr. de Hauteclocque obtained his PhD in law from the University of Manchester (UK) and holds a M.Sc. in Management from EM Lyon (France) and a M.Sc. in Economic Policy from Strathclyde University (UK). His research interests include EU law, competition policy, regulation and finance in network industries. [+] Contact [+] CV _____________________________________________________________________________
Claire Gavard	Research Assistant in the Climate Policy Research Unit Claire Gavard is a Research Assistant in the Climate Policy Research Unit of the Loyola de Palacio Chair. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Economics Department at Ecole Polytechnique (France). Prior to coming to the EUI, she was a visiting student at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change in collaboration with Electricité de France. Her research at the Joint Program focused on the economic analysis of sectoral trading mechanism. She holds a Master degree in Physics from the Ecole Supérieure de Physiques et de Chimie Industrielles (France) and a Master degree in Innovation Management from the Ecole Polytechnique. Claire also had field experience in India and Brazil and consulting experience in defense and security industry. [+] Contact _____________________________________________________________________________
Haikel Khalfallah	Jean Monnet Fellow Haikel Khalfallah received the Master degree in applied micro economics from University of Lyon 2, France, in 2004. Then, he enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the same University financed by the French Ministry of Research. His dissertation research involved the problem of long term capacity adequacy in electricity markets and studied the investment incentive mechanisms based on quantitative economics. He received the Ph.D. degree (magna cum laude) in December 2009. He worked then at Supélec (Ecole Supérieur d’Electricité) in Paris, as a Postdoctoral Fellow and is currently with the Florence School of Regulation (European University Institute) in Florence as a Postdoctoral Fellow. [+] Contact [+] PhD Thesis ____________________________________________________________________________
Emanuela Michetti	Research Assistant Emanuela Michetti is Research Assistant at the Florence School of Regulation. She holds a Ph.D. in Law and Economics and a M.Sc. in Economics, both from the University of Siena (Italy). Her research interests include Industrial Organisation, Network Industries, Regulation and Competition. She was visiting student at Oxford Brookes University (UK) in 2002, and visiting researcher and teaching assistant at the University of Leicester (UK) from 2006 to 2008. Before joining the Florence School of Regulation in May 2010, Emanuela has worked for a few years in the economic consulting industry and specialised in the regulation of the energy sector. [+] Contact [+] Publications _____________________________________________________________________________
Vincent Rious	Advisor Engeneering Vincent Rious is research associate for the LDP Engeneering Area and Senior Energy Economist at Microeconomix, a consulting firm where he works on competition and regulation economics applied to the network industries. He published several articles and conference papers on grid operation and investment in the liberalised power system with an increasing integration of renewable resources. He has successively done these research works with the French TSO RTE and the French regulator CRE. He was previously associate professor at the Power and Energy Systems Department in the High School of Electricity SUPELEC where he was the co-director of one master in continuing education for Energy Managers and one master in initial education for Economics and Management in the Network Industries, in collaboration with the Universities Paris 6, 10, 11 and two other French Grandes Ecoles Telecom ParisTech and l’Ecole Polytechnique. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from SUPELEC in (2004) and the PhD degree in Economics from the University Paris 11 (2007). [+] Contac t _____________________________________________________________________________
Marcelo Saguan	Advisor Engeneering Marcelo Saguan is research associate for the LDP Engeneering Area, a senior consultant in economics and leads the Energy & Climate Practice at Microeconomix. He has extensive experience in infrastructure regulation, electricity and gas markets and environmental issues. He has produced several relevant reports for European energy utilities and has been involved in on several studies produced for the European Commission. He has also published widely in professional and academic journals on energy issues, including market power, congestion management, balancing market design and renewable energies integration in competitive markets. Marcelo was previously Jean Monnet Fellow at the RSCAS in the Loyola de Palacio Energy Policy Programme. He had a post-doc postdoctoral position within the GRJM electricity research group at University of Paris 11. He holds a PhD in energy economics (2007) from the University of Paris 11 and the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (Supélec) and a Master degree in industrial engineering from ENIM (Metz) and from University of Cuyo, Argentina (2001). [+] Contact _______________________________________________________________________________
Silvester Van Koten	Jean Monnet Fellow Silvester van Koten is a Jean-Monet fellow at the Florence School of Regulation and a Post-Doc fellow at CERGE-EI in Prague. He is a researcher with a special interest in the economics of energy markets, renewables and regulation. His present research appraises the effectiveness of forward markets to alleviate market power using economics experiments. In his previous research he analyzed effects of incomplete unbundling on competition. Apart from his intellectual passion, Economics, Silvester van Koten has interests in a broad range of fields, such as Psychology, Philosophy of Science, and Mathematics. [+] Contact [+] PhD Thesis _____________________________________________________________________________