Speakers

A practising lawyer for 10 years, Charlotte Morton studied for her MBA at London Business School before setting up a car club business. Asked to establish the business side of the UK Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association in 2009, she saw the potential of an industry that can deliver huge potential and value to the UK. Given the even bigger global potential, which must be achieved if the Paris Climate Change targets and UN Sustainable Development Goals are to be met, Charlotte played a pivotal role in establishing the World Biogas Association in 2016 to promote and increase the rate of uptake of biogas globally. Charlotte is also on the board of Green Gas Trading Ltd, which runs the Biomethane Certification Scheme.

Dr. Peter Zeniewski is Lead Gas Analyst for the World Energy Outlook at the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), and a lead author of the IEA’s Outlook on Biogas and Biomethane. He was formerly the Product Manager for Wood Mackenzie's European Energy Service and was a Policy Officer at the European Commission JRC Institute for Energy. He was a Chancellor's Fellow of Edinburgh University and holds a PhD from the University of Oxford.

Torben Brabo is SVP on International Relations in Energinet Group, the Danish national transmission system operator for electricity and gas – which is an independent public enterprise owned by the Danish state under the Ministry of Climate, Utilities and Energy. He has more than 25 years of experience in the energy and gas sector in Denmark/Europe and globally. Part of that as CEO for more than 10 years for the Gas TSO and Gas Storage Denmark (GSD). Prior to joining Energinet, he took part in several European power and gas projects working for the European Commission or World Bank, etc. Torben Brabo is highly involved in Danish and European renewable and low-carbon gas projects, sector coupling for electricity-gas and storing of energy. Besides of being GIE’s President (Gas Infrastructure Europe), he is engaged as Board member in ENTSOG (European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas) and the European gas capacity trading platform PRISMA and promoting ERGAR. Moreover, he participates in several decarbonisation projects, such as Gas for Climate (GfC) and the European Hydrogen Backbone (EHB). He has held a position as chairman of the board of the Danish-Swedish gas exchange ‘Gaspoint Nordic’, Asset Management Denmark, and more.

Christian has studied a Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from IMD. He worked 10 years in the automotive industry for BMW, Rolls-Royce and Bosch and 12 years for Shell in Lubricants, Bitumen business, in a range of operational and commercial roles heading large teams, delivering billions $ of products. Since January 2019, he is leading the Biomethane Business Development Activities for Shell in Europe, defining its strategy where Shell can help decarbonize the transport sector, by offering financial support to the biomethane industry.

Petter Jacob is Chief Commercial Officer at Antec – an AD technology and Biomethane development company. At Antec he is responsible for the team that is originating new projects that lead to new biogas plants. To be working for generating more renewable energy is a great privilege! Prior to joining Antec, Petter spent 5 years at Cognite, - an asset performance management scale up that grew from 50 to 700 employees during that period. Having different roles across corporate development and international business development, Petter thrives in bringing new technology to market in high growth companies and industries; just like Antec and the biomethane industry.

Caspar Gooren is the Carbon Zero Director at Titan – a leading, independent physical supplier of low-carbon and net-zero fuels, such as LNG, LBM, and hydrogen derived e-methane. Caspar has 15 years of experience in the renewable energy markets, at European energy companies, as an energy trader, in various clean energy scaleups. His mission is to accelerate the transition to a sustainable energy future by making 'green' more attractive than 'grey'.

Dr Nick Primmer, Policy Advisor, Future Biogas Nick leads Future Biogas' engagement with government and associations, ensuring supportive policy is in place for the delivery of Project Carbon Harvest – a venture to design and operate the UK’s next generation of AD plants delivering Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). Previously, Nick worked as policy analyst at ADBA and WBA, national associations for the UK and global biogas industry respectively. Here, he authored a key report “Biogas: Pathways to 2030”, recommending key policies to help scale up the biogas sector to its full potential.

Lukas Heer holds a Master Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Mr. Heer has 30 years of experience in the fields of environmental consultancy, power generation and distribution, renewable energy production, energy efficiency in buildings, carbon credit origination and trading, air quality management and waste & resources management, in various positions both in the private and public sector, including development co-operation. Lukas has so far had global exposure with both SMEs and large enterprises in a variety of functions, such as commissioning engineer, design engineer, area sales manager, environmental and management consultant, project execution manager, regional representative and project development manager. At Zurich based Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI), Lukas is part of a specialist team developing HZI’s own projects which includes the design, funding, construction and operation of large thermal waste treatment and renewable gas production plants employing various technologies such as dry and wet Anaerobic Digestion (AD), biogas-to-biomethane upgrading, Power-to-X, CO2 recovery and liquefaction and biomethane compression or liquefaction. Lukas has lived for several years in Asia, is married and has two sons.

Since September 2021, Anaïs Faucher has been working as a Policy Advisor in Eurogas, focusing on renewable and decarbonised gas, transport as well as CCU/S issues notably in the context of the Fit-for-55 package and the RePowerEU plan. Before joining Eurogas, she worked at the German National Regulatory Authority (BNetzA) within the International and European relations department as a legal intern, supporting notably the CEER related activities. Anaïs holds a Master’s degree in European Law and is currently following the Florence School of Regulation annual training on the regulation of energy utilities.

Laurent THERY is currently Senior Advisor for EIFFEL Investment Group with a specific area of interest of investing in renewable gases (hydrogen, biogas, e-fuels) and international. He contributed to create the first investment fund specialized in renewable gases in Europe : EIFFEL Green Gases. Laurent THERY previous position was Senior VP for International Business Development for ENGIE Infrastructures. In this position, he invested in large acquisitions in Germany (gas storage) and Latin America (Brazil Petrobras transmission business unit and Mexico gas pipeline from Texas to Mexico). Laurent THERY has a 25 years professional experience in infrastructures working with governments, regulators, development banks, operators and utilities in 50 countries globally.