European Power

Fabien Roques

IHS CERA Senior Director

Fabien Roques, IHS CERA Director, European Power, leads the IHS CERA research on European power and carbon dioxide (CO2) markets. His expertise includes market design and regulation, restructuring, and valuation work for corporate and government clients.

Mr. Roques has particular expertise in using quantitative models to analyze strategic decisions such as investment under uncertainty. He has worked on numerous tailored consulting assignments for clients, including major European utilities, financial investors, and European regulators. Before joining IHS CERA Mr. Roques was with the International Energy Agency, where he contributed to a range of studies including the World Energy Outlook energy and CO2 emission scenarios. Previously as an independent consultant and a researcher at the Cambridge University Electricity Policy Research Group, he worked on a range of projects related to market design, investment valuation, and portfolio optimization in European power markets.

Mr. Roques holds an MSc from the Ecole Centrale Lyon and an MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Jean Marie Chevalier

IHS CERA Senior Associate

Erkki Adourian

Associate

Andy Barrett

IHS CERA Senior Associate

Michael Chettrit

IHS CERA Research Associate

Michael Chettrit, IHS CERA Research Associate with the European Gas and Power team, focuses on modeling and strategic analysis. His expertise includes gas price outlooks, gas market liquidity, power plants flexibility, and renewable intermittency. Prior to joining IHS CERA, he held positions in an oil and gas company and a renewable research institute. 

Mr. Chettrit holds an engineering degree from University Paris-Sud and a Master’s degree from University Paris Dauphine.

Dan Clay

IHS CERA Director, European Gas, Power, and Renewables

Dan Clay, IHS CERA Director of European Gas, Power and Renewables, is an expert in market modeling for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific regions. With more than 15 years of modeling and energy experience, Mr. Clay specializes in fundamentals analysis, price outlooks and energy risk management and in developing corporate strategies for the broad range of energy markets. At IHS he works across functions and regions, with responsibilities for integrated gas and power modeling, a variety of consulting projects, and research on multiple energy markets. 

Prior to joining IHS, Mr. Clay held a number of posts at Centrica plc in trading and strategy, including Head of Power, Coal and Carbon Fundamentals for Centrica Energy, and Head of Hedging for British Gas Business. Previously he was a bandwidth trading and risk management consultant for cable and wireless, and was with BG plc with responsibilities for strategy and UK energy. Earlier with Eastern Energy (now part of E.ON Energie AG) his focus was energy trading. 

Mr. Clay holds a BS (Hons.) from Keele University, United Kingdom.

Sylvain Cognet

Associate Director

Alun Davies

IHS CERA Director with the European Gas and Power team

Alun Davies, IHS CERA Director with the European Gas and Power team, focuses on market fundamentals and quantitative modeling. His expertise includes price forecasting, market strategy and fundamentals analysis, with experience in climate policy and corporate strategy. Prior to joining IHS CERA, Mr. Davies held a variety of posts with Centrica plc, including in long-term strategy, power modeling, trading, and trade strategy. He also has experience within the pharmaceutical sector, having worked in research and development for GlaxoSmithKline before joining Centrica. 

Mr. Davies holds a first class Masters degree from the University of Oxford.

Federico Ferrario

IHS CERA Associate Director, European Gas and Power

Etienne Gabel

IHS CERA Associate Director

Susanne Hounsell

Associate

Susanne Hounsell, IHS CERA Associate, European Power, specializes in renewable energy and clean power technologies. Her expertise includes economic and regulatory assessments, supported by in-depth data analysis and market modeling, as well as strategy and policy design for sustainable energy. Prior to joining IHS CERA Ms. Hounsell was a consultant in the Sustainable Energy team at IPA Energy + Water Economics, where she led and contributed to a wide variety of custom client studies in the international energy sector. Key projects included the integration of intermittent generation in the European power systems, economic effects of offshore wind supply chain development, and global market size projections for carbon capture and storage and other clean energy technologies. Ms. Hounsell has previously worked with various industry bodies such as Euroheat & Power and the World Alliance for Decentralized Energy. She holds a BA from the University of Maastricht and an MSc from the University of Edinburgh.

Elsa Kiener

IHS CERA Associate

Steven Knell

IHS CERA Associate

Steven Knell, IHS CERA Associate, European Power, is a specialist in global climate change politics. His principal expertise lies in analysis of environmental regulatory frameworks and their impacts on the energy market landscape. Dr. Knell's current research and consulting work focuses upon the European Emissions Trading Scheme and strategic assessments of European carbon price formation.

Prior to joining IHS CERA Dr. Knell worked in the IHS Global Insight World Markets Energy service. In this capacity he provided daily analysis of Asian oil, gas, and power market developments. Dr. Knell has also previously served in the Canadian Federal Ministry of Environment and with the United Nations Development Program in Croatia. He holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Kent at Canterbury, an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in International Relations from the University of Sussex. He is based in the London office.

Kevin Le Grand

Research Analyst II

Bio coming soon

Marina Littlewood

Research Associate

Marina Littlewood, IHS CERA Research Associate with the European Power team, focuses on European power market fundamentals. Her expertise focuses especially on Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on the Balkans. Ms. Littlewood also covers price and liquidity developments in European power markets, and mergers and acquisitions transactions in the European utilities sector. Prior to joining IHS CERA she held positions in corporate finance and private equity. Ms. Littlewood holds a double degree in Finance and Economics, summa cum laude, from Drexel University.

Deborah Mann

IHS CERA Director, European Gas and Power

Deborah Mann, IHS CERA Director, European Gas and Power, is an expert in European power, energy business strategy development and market projections. Ms. Mann joined IHS Global Insight European Energy Services in 2007, managing a team producing European power market analysis in both subscription products and consulting. She also had responsibility for the European Energy and Environmental Outlook, covering the projections to 2030 for all energy sectors in 31 European countries. Her previous experience includes 15 years in the oil refining sector working for BP, carrying out various techno-economic appraisal and strategic studies and for M W Kellogg, where she set up and ran a refinery planning group. She also spent nine years in the electronics sector tracking and developing forecasts for global and regional markets. A chartered chemical engineer, Ms. Mann is a member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and of the Energy Institute. 

She holds MA and MEng degrees from Cambridge University and an MS from Kingston University.

Barrie Murray

Senior Associate

Riccardo Quercioli

Associate

Tom Tindall

IHS CERA Director

Tom Tindall, IHS CERA Director, is an energy economist specializing in regulatory, policy design and completive analysis in the power sector. His experience includes work for energy companies, policymakers, and regulators on the implications of market and incentive design. Prior to joining IHS, Mr Tindall was with UK-based economic consultancy Oxera, providing advice on low-carbon incentive design, retail market intervention, and transmission policy. Mr Tindall holds a MEng from the University of Oxford, and an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Philippe Vassilopoulos

Associate Director

Philippe Vassilopoulos, IHS CERA Associate Director, European Power, specializes in the European wholesale power and gas markets. His expertise includes price formation mechanisms, price and demand modelling, market design, regulations, and market surveillance. Before joining CERA Mr. Vassilopoulos was Chief Economist at EPEX Spot, where he also served as Market Surveillance Officer, and was previously an analyst and project manager at Powernext. Mr. Vassilopoulos also carried out applied research on price signals and investment incentives in the European electricity markets for the Commission de Regulation de l’Energie. He holds a master’s degree and a PhD from the University of Paris-Dauphine.

Tracy Wilkinson

IHS CERA Associate Director, European Power

Tracy Wilkinson, IHS CERA Associate Director, European Power, is a specialist in the European and Australasian power markets. She is responsible for the projections of short- and long-term power prices and generation for European power markets and also works on a variety of short-term projects. Current research areas include modeling European power prices, transmission investment, and transmission pricing.

Recent analysis and reports include European Power Market Fundamentals 2009–15 and for the IHS CERA European Power Roundtable held in London.  Ms. Wilkinson joined IHS CERA as part of the merger between IHS and Global Insight. At Global Insight she also worked in the European Power team projecting short- and long-term power prices, demand, and generation. Prior to joining Global Insight in London Ms. Wilkinson was based in New Zealand, where she worked on a variety of projects for the New Zealand and Australian markets and worked for M-Co, the New Zealand electricity market operator. Ms. Wilkinson holds a BCom (Hons) and a BE (Hons) from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Christian Winzer

IHS CERA Senior Research Analyst

Christian Winzer, IHS CERA Senior Research Analyst, is focused on European power and carbon dioxide (CO2) markets. Prior to joining CERA he has been working at the Department of Energy and Climate Change on the Design of Capacity Mechanisms as well as for the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin on the regulation of transmission networks. Mr Winzer holds a Masters Degree in industrial engineering from Karlsruhe University and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.