President

Peter Claes

Representing IE´s member association FEBELIEC – Belgium

Peter has been active in IFIEC and other European and national industry associations for almost 30 years, and was previously President of IFIEC Europe from 2003 to 2007.  He also chaired the Working Party Electricity of IFIEC Europe for more than 10 years.  Peter is currently General Manager of FEBELIEC -­ the Federation of Belgian Industrial Energy Consumers.­

Peter holds a Master of Business Economics from the University of Leuven.

Secretary General

Isabelle Chaput

With more than 30 years of experience in the field of Energy, Climate and Sustainability in Air Products, PwC, FEB-VBO, esenscia & Cefic, Isabelle will lead the advocacy and communication activities of IFIEC and reinforce the visibility of the organisation towards the European institutions, grid operators, regulators and stakeholders.

Isabelle is also independent BOARD MEMBER of BRUGEL, the Energy regulator of Brussels (2018-2023). Isabelle holds a degree in Applied Economics (UCL-Belgium) as well as an MBA (KUL-Belgium) and an Interdisciplinary Licence in Environment (ULB-Belgium).

Deputy President

Hans Grünfeld

Representing IE´s member association Royal VEMW – The Netherlands

Hans Grünfeld is Managing Director of VEMW, the Dutch member association of IFIEC Europe. Having served VEMW since 1999, Hans has extensive experience with the liberalization and integration of the European gas and electricity markets. From 2007-2011, he served as President of IFIEC Europe. Before joining VEMW, Hans Grünfeld worked as researcher for McKinsey & Company and as policy analyst at Rand Europe.

Hans Grünfeld received a Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology and holds an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Master in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam.

Deputy President

Nicolas de Warren

Representing IE´s member association UNIDEN – France

Nicolas de Warren is President of UNIDEN, the French member association of IFIEC Europe, and Corporate VP, Institutional Affairs, of ARKEMA, the French leading chemicals and advanced materials group. Nicolas has been active for more than 15 years at national and EU levels in all the fields related to industrial competitiveness, and mainly to climate change and energy. After having spent eight years in the Department of industry, at services then Cabinet level, he joined Atochem, the Chemical subsidiary of the Elf Group in 1991, and held various positions in M&A, then in business, as Business Manager up to BU managing director in acrylics then in oxygenates. Nicolas holds a Law degree from the University of Paris and is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA).

Jorge Mendonça e Costa

Representing IE´s member association APIGCEE – Portugal

Jorge Mendonça e Costa is Executive Director at the Portuguese Association for Industrial High Electrical Energy Consumers (APIGCEE) since 2014 and is Coordinating Professor at ISEL since 2008. Mr. Costa dedicated most of his career to the Energy Sector and served as Principal Technical Counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Portugal at the European Union (REPER), being a member of the European Council working groups dealing with Energy and Atomic Issues, (2001-2004). He was Director at Climaespaço – Urban Thermal Energy Distribution, S.A. (1999-2000) and at the Portuguese Energy Agency (ADENE) (1994 – 1999). Mr. Costa developed activity as R&D Engineer at the thermal hydraulic simulation section of the Nuclear Power Production Department of Tractebel Energy Engineering, (1991-1993).

He acted as consultant for GDF Suez and Cogen Portugal. He acquired experience as Project Manager of new buildings (ships) at Viana do Castelo Shipyards (ENVC) (2005-2006).

Mr. Costa has a degree in Mechanical Engineering delivered by Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) (1984) and a Ph.D by the Katholiek Universiteit Leuven (1992). He attended the Doctoral Programme and Diploma Course at the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics.

Pasi Kuokkanen

Representing IE´s member association Elfi – Finland

Pasi Kuokkanen is Managing Director of Suomen ElFi Oy in Finlanda. He has 20 years of experience as energy market generalist working e.g. at Hansel, Nord Pool Spot, Fingrid Oyj and Fortum Oyj. In recent years he lead several multinational projects as the “Estonian´s day-ahead and intra-day electricity markets opening” and the “ Full market coupling via implicit auction between Poland and Sweden.“

Pasi holds a Master of science (eng) from The Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) and was furthermore educated at the Finnish Institute of Management.

Theodor Livinschi

Representing IE´s member association Romania

Theodor Livinschi is the Vice-President of the Association of Energy Consuming Companies in Romania and the Managing & Founding Partner of partenerg, consulting company within energy procurement for industrial consumers. His current company is one of the founding members of the Romanian association in 2021.

Working in the energy industry since 2014, he started in the Swiss utilities company Repower and then coordinated the retail activities of MET as Head of Sales.

Theodor has wide expertise within the energy commercial matters, both procurement and sales, having also the chance to be part of 2 large M&A transactions.

Thomas Mock

Representing IE´s member association VIK – Germany

Thomas Mock is Director Public Affairs at HYDRO Aluminium Rolled Products GmbH in Germany with around 5000 employees. He chairs the Climate Committee of IFIEC Europe´s German member association VIK. Thomas has been active in IFIEC Europe and other European and national industry associations for almost 15 years. He concentrates mainly on key strategic and regulatory issues concerning the implementation of the EU Emissions Trading Schemes, the liberalisation of electricity and renewables in Brussels and Berlin.

Thomas holds a Master of Law from the University of Cologne and is a trained lawyer by profession.

Giuseppe Pastorino

Representing IE´s member association Italy

TOver the course of more than 25 years, he has gained extensive experience in the Finance, Administration and Control functions of industrial companies in the Saint-Gobain Group until taking on the role of CEO of Verallia Italia, a leading company in the Glass Packaging sector, responsible for activities in Italy and North Africa.

He was President of the Glass Packaging sector in Assovetro (Italian Association of Glass Manufacturers) and Vice-President of Co.Re.Ve. Glass Recovery Consortium.

Since 2015, he has been dealing with energy consumption for large industrial consumers and holds the position of President of AICEP – Energy Intensive Industries Italian Association.

In 2017, he was appointed President of AICE Scarl, a consortium company established by large industrial energy consumers to provide services in the field of energy and efficiency.

Since 2018, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of IFIEC Europe.

Christian Seyfert

Representing IE´s member association VIK – Germany

Christian Seyfert, born in 1971, is the Managing Director of the VIK Association of Industrial Energy and Power Industry since July 2020. He studied Political Science, History, and Economics at the University of Hamburg, earning a degree in Political Science.

He began his professional career in the presidential departments of the Cultural Authority and the Authority for Urban Development and Environment of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. In 2005, he took over the management of the press office of the Ministry of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Areas of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, serving as its spokesperson.

In 2012, Christian Seyfert moved to the energy company Vattenfall, where he worked in corporate communications for the Hamburg and Northern Germany region.

Konstantin Stamenov

Representing IE´s member association BFIEC – Bulgarian

Konstantin Stamenov is a Chairman of the Management Board of Bulgarian Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers (BFIEC) since 2009. He has been working for “Stomana Industry” SA metallurgical plant for more than 20 years, occupying various senior management positions.

K. Stamenov also used to be the Project Manager for SAP implementation and for projects funded by EU. He had successfully implemented a unique Eur 250 project compliant with European policies in 2016.

He has completed a master’s degree in “Economics & Informatics” (1993) and is certified in Project Management at Stevens Institute of Technologies, USA in 2006. He has received a Certificate of Shale Gas Development from The International Leadership Program of USA. In 2015 he graduated master’s degree in Electricity Management at Sofia Technology University and participated in Executive Course to Master Electricity Markets of Florence School of Regulation in 2023.

Since 2009 he has many publications and interviews in various TVs, electronic media, newspapers and magazines. Stamenov is a member of different working groups dealing with Energy Market Liberalization at Ministry of Energy, Energy Watchdog – for Market Rules, Energy Law, etc. Today BFIEC is a well-known federation in Bulgaria, representing the energy intensive industry before state authorities.

Emmanuel Tillous-Borde

Representing IE´s member association UNIDEN – France

Emmanuel Tillous-Borde is currently General Manager – Head of Energy purchasing at ArcelorMittal, where he has worked since 2008. From 1997-1999 he has worked for ABB Group as Sales Engineer in South Asia, and from 2000-2007 for Group Gaz de France on the Finergaz development of cogeneration project and as Project Director of a 400 MW combined cycle in the South of France.

He is a graduate of ESME Engineering school and holds an Executive MBA from ESSEC Mannheim. .

Jaromír Vorel

Representing IE´s member association AEM/SVSE – Czech Republic

Jaromír Vorel is working in the company ŠKO-ENERGO, the general energy services company of Škoda Auto, the major Czech car producing company, member of Volkswagen Group. He is in the CEO position since 2013. Previously he worked in chemical and industrial gas industry (21 years) and in the power generating and supplying industry (10 years). All in the operational management and project management positions. He was a chairman of the energy committee of Czech Chemical Association (SCHP ČR). Since 2015 he chairs the Czech Association of Large Energy Consumers (SVSE). He is also Vice-President of the Czech Association of Energy Managers.

Electricity

The Working Party Electricity prepares and permanently evaluates IE positions in the domain of electricity markets, electricity price competitiveness and infrastructure and generation adequacy. It concentrates on issues linked to the implementation of the EU Electricity Target model (such as the development of grid codes, transparency legislation, market design, …), generation adequacy, infrastructure availability and cost-benefit analyses, primary fuel mix choices for electricity generation and its impact on prices, security of supply and the environment. It evaluates electricity price levels and their impact on global industry competitiveness, and proposes corrective actions if this is threatened. It detects and promotes opportunities for industrial consumers in the liberalized electricity markets (auto-production, prosumers, demand response, …).

Position Papers

Gas

The shale gas revolution in the U.S. put the European industrial end consumers at a competitive disadvantage, while at the same time the European gas supply is still dominated by few suppliers. Therefore IFIEC Europe is constantly working on competitive prices for industrial consumers. This is done on any possible layer, but mainly inside the framework on the 3rd Energy Package from the Commission.

Position Papers

Chair WP Electricity

Inger Kristin Holm has been working for Hydro since 2000, in the Energy Business Area. Currently Inger Kristin works on regulatory and power market issues in the EU, Norway and Brazil. Prior she held various other positions in Hydro, within portfolio management, strategy and project development.  Before joining Hydro she worked for the Norwegian Ministry of Energy and for the Norwegian Federation of Industries.

Inger Kristin holds a Master of Business from Norwegian Business School.

Chair WP Gas

Jochen Wagner

jochen.wagner​[at]​basf.com

Jochen Wagner has been an active member of IFIEC's Working Party Gas since 2014. He became its acting Chair of the Working Party in July 2020. He works for BASF, leading the procurement team responsible for sourcing natural gas, electricity, coal and steam at their European sites, having worked for the company since 2001. He has led the Working Party Gas of German federation VIK and VCI since 2014.

He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences.

Rapporteur WP Electricity

Jonas Heid

Jonas Heid has been working first as Head of Energy Industry and Regulation and, since 2024, as Head of New Concepts and Technologies at the German Association of Industrial Energy Consumers (VIK) for close to two years. From 2017 to 2019 he was Internal and External Communications Manager for the Competence Centre on Nature Conservation and Energy Transition (KNE) in Berlin, until September 2020 he was the Consultant on Energy and Climate Affairs for the CSU-Speaker on climate in the German Bundestag, Dr. Anja Weisgerber, and until 2022 he was Head of Climate and Energy Efficiency at the Economic Council of the CDU. Jonas Heid holds a Masters Degree in International Relations from the Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Rapporteur WP Gas

Yngvild Tormodsgard

Yngvild Tormodsgard has been working for Yara and in Yara’s Energy Sourcing Team since 2017. Currently Yngvild is working as Energy Sourcing Manager responsible for Energy Policy and Regulatory Issues. She is active in several national and European industry associations. Within Yara, she previously held the positions as Energy Analyst and Energy Sourcing Manager responsible for sourcing energy for several of Yara’s European plants. Before joining Yara, Yngvild worked for the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, within the field of gas market analysis, EU policy and gas infrastructure regulation.

Yngvild holds a Master Degree in International Political Economy from London School of Economics and a Bachelor Degree in International Economics, Money and Finance from the University of Toulouse.

CLIMATE & EFFICIENCY

IFIEC Europe is carefully following political decisions and measures in the field of policy against global warming, because these are highly affecting EU industry regarding their existential needs for a secure and competitive energy supply. IFIEC´s view on climate and efficiency measures is therefore focused on balanced EU actions based on a comprehensive sustainability approach for energy supply systems, which takes into account the three equally important components: ecology, economy and security. IFIEC Europe´s members - who already achieved impressive results in developing efficient technologies and innovative products - are willing and prepared to continue to do so and to invest in technologies which help reduce carbon emissions and raw materials input. For that purpose, they need a policy framework that effectively avoids carbon leakage and supports investments in modern industry productions.

Position Papers

ENERGY TRANSITION

The Working Party Energy Transition focuses on the long-term climate & energy European policies that will enable the European Union to reach its climate neutrality goal by 2050. The objective is to ensure that the European climate ambition will be reached in a way that will enable European industry to become carbon-neutral while keeping and promoting its competitiveness. The main topics followed by the WP Energy Transition are European Industry Strategy (EIS), Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA), Innovation Funds (IF), Energy Taxation, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) linked to the EU ETS reform and development of Carbon Capture Storage and Utilisation. The revision of the existing legislation and regulation on emissions reduction and energy will be carefully followed by the experts. An adequate scheme financing the energy transition of energy intensive industry through innovation and breakthrough technology must be assured. The aim of our actions is to obtain a favorable evolution of European legislation supporting growth and new investments in industrial sectors to green the EU Economy.

Position Papers

Chair WP Climate & Efficiency

Saartje Swinnen

 

 

 

Chair WP Energy Transition

Jean-Philippe Perrot has been working for the Solvay Group for over 35 years in the field of energy and climate. From 1990 to 2003, he was the power plant manager of the industrial site of Dombasle (East of France). In 2003, he moved to Brussels in Solvay Headquarters. Thanks to his prior experience in the field of energy, he has occupied several positions dealing with energy generation, energy purchases, energy efficiency improvement and greenhouse gas emission reduction. Currently, he works as energy & climate advocacy manager of the Solvay Group. He is active in several national and European associations of large energy industrial consumers.

Jean-Philippe holds a Masters Degree in Chemicals Processing from the University of Nancy.

Rapporteur WP Climate & Efficiency

Adelia Rathmann

Adelia Rathmann is working as Policy Advisor for energy and climate issues for the German Association of Industrial Energy Consumers (VIK).

Before joining VIK, she gained working experience in the sugar and food processing industry and in scientific projects related to the European climate and energy policy.

Currently, she works on regulatory issues regarding the climate policy instruments, with a focus on EU Green Deal and Emission Trading System, CCfDs and industry decarbonisation policies. Adelia Rathmann has been an active member of IFIEC's Working Party Climate and Efficiency since 2020.

Adelia Rathmann holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Policy and Planning from Technical University Berlin.

Rapporteur WP Energy Transition

Isabelle Chaput

With more than 30 years of experience in the field of Energy, Climate and Sustainability in Air Products, PwC, FEB-VBO, esenscia & Cefic, Isabelle will lead the advocacy and communication activities of IFIEC and reinforce the visibility of the organisation towards the European institutions, grid operators, regulators and stakeholders.

Isabelle is also independent BOARD MEMBER of BRUGEL, the Energy regulator of Brussels (2018-2023). Isabelle holds a degree in Applied Economics (UCL-Belgium) as well as an MBA (KUL-Belgium) and an Interdisciplinary Licence in Environment (ULB-Belgium).

Secretary General

Isabelle Chaput

With more than 30 years of experience in the field of Energy, Climate and Sustainability in Air Products, PwC, FEB-VBO, esenscia & Cefic, Isabelle will lead the advocacy and communication activities of IFIEC and reinforce the visibility of the organisation towards the European institutions, grid operators, regulators and stakeholders.

Isabelle is also independent BOARD MEMBER of BRUGEL, the Energy regulator of Brussels (2018-2023). Isabelle holds a degree in Applied Economics (UCL-Belgium) as well as an MBA (KUL-Belgium) and an Interdisciplinary Licence in Environment (ULB-Belgium).

Honorary Secretary General

Roger Goffin

Roger Goffin is nominated Honorary Secretary General as of 01/01/2024.

Roger Goffin was as General Secretary in charge of the administration of IFIEC Europe since 1993. Until 2006 Roger worked as Managing Director for Hoechst in Africa, Austria, Germany and Belgium.

Roger holds degrees in Chemistry and Biochemistry from ULB - Free University of Brussels.