César Martínez is Member of the EURELECTRIC TF Market Design for RES Integration. He is an industrial engineer and holds a degree in Business Administration. He has developed his entire professional career in the electricity sector. In the last seven years he has been working in the Regulatory Affairs department of Endesa focused on liberalized activities and RES issues.

Robin McCormick is General Manager of the System Operator Northern Ireland (SONI Ltd) and also of SEMO, the single electricity market operator. He leads a professional team of staff to deliver system and market operation services. He has participated in the board to establish the transmission system operators regional association ENTSO-E. Robin is a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and Vice Chairman of the IET Engineering Policy Group - Northern Ireland. He holds an MBA from the University of Ulster, Jordanstown, and an MSc from Napier University, Edinburgh.

Jean-Pierre Miura is a Senior Regulatory Analyst at the Utility Regulator and has extensive expertise of wholesale energy market issues. He is currently working on European electricity market integration and its impact on the Single Electricity Market. He is also supporting the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on the viability of implementing the UK Government's Electricity Market Reform in Northern Ireland.

Richard Murphy is a Director in the corporate team at McGrigors LLP and is based in the firm's Belfast office. Richard's main areas of practice are in energy and corporate work. He has extensive experience advising on M&A, commercial contract and regulatory/competition issues in the energy sector. Richard is listed in Chambers UK and the Legal 500 as a leading lawyer in Northern Ireland for energy work. He is the current Chairman of the Company & Commercial Lawyers Group in Northern Ireland.

Rabindra Nepal is a James-Watt PhD Scholar in Energy Economics at Heriot-Watt University under the Scottish Graduate Program in Economics (SGPE). His PhD thesis is about the economic analysis of electricity sector reforms among countries experiencing market-driven economic and political transition with developing countries and often countries with small electricity systems such as Ireland the prime focus of this research. He has previously carried out research at Cambridge University, the University of Oklahoma (USA) and Jacobs University Bremen, Germany.

David Newbery, PhD, ScD, FBA, is an Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Electricity Policy Research Group. He was educated at Cambridge with degrees in mathematics and economics. David was President of the European Economic Association in 1996 and is President-elect for the International Association for Energy Economics in 2012, to be President in 2013. He acts as an occasional economic advisor to Ofgem, Ofwat, and ORR and is a former member of the Competition Commission. He has recently advised DECC and the House of Commons on Electricity Market Reform.

Reg Platt is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research where he specialises in energy and climate change policy. His expertise includes energy retail market reform, community based energy, public attitudes and sustainable consumption. Reg regularly publishes articles for major print publications and blogs and has appeared on various national broadcast media. Before joining IPPR in 2008 Reg co-founded Transition Town Brighton, a community-led initiative to reduce carbon emissions, and worked as an intern at the Royal Society for Arts Manufacture and Commerce.