
Mr. Antonio Brufau
Chairman of Repsol
Ms. Elżbieta Bieńkowska
Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry , Entrepreneurship, SMEs
Mr. Pierre Barthelemy
Executive director Research and Innovation, European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic)
Ms. Teresa C. Fogelberg
Deputy Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
Mr. Keith Mullin
Founder of KM Capital Markets
Mr. Jorge Núñez Ferrer
Senior Research Fellow, Economy and Finance Energy and Climate Change, Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Mr. Jeroen Schuppers
Deputy Head of Unit G2 - Advanced Energy Production, DG RTD, European Commission
Mr. Ángel Bautista
Director of Institutional Relations, Repsol
Mr. Antonio Brufau
Chairman of RepsolAntonio Brufau Niubó has been Chairman of Repsol since 2004. His extensive experience in the business world and his expertise in the energy sector have enabled him in the last decade to lead the company's transformation process towards a more global and integrated model. Repsol boasts assets in 40 countries and is present across the entire oil and gas value chain, from the exploration and production of hydrocarbons to their transformation and marketing.
Antonio Brufau's ties to Repsol date back to 1996, when he joined the Board of Directors. He remained a company director until he was appointed chairman on October 27th, 2004.
Antonio Brufau has a degree in Economics from the University of Barcelona and was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona.
He began his professional career at Arthur Andersen, where he became Partner and Director of Auditing. In 1988, he joined “la Caixa” Group as Deputy Managing Director, where he was also the Managing Director between 1999 and 2004. Moreover, he was Chairman of the Gas Natural Group from 1997 to 2004.
Antonio Brufau is member of the Board of Acción Empresarial of CEOE, Asociación Española de Directivos, Círculo de Economía, and Honorary Chairman of the Inter-Institutional Consortium GLOBALleida. Furthermore, he is a trustee of Fundación Privada Instituto Ildefons Cerdà, Fundación CEDE (Spanish Confederation of Directors and Executives), Real Instituto Elcano, FUNSEAM (Foundation for Energy and Environmental Sustainability), COTEC (Foundation for Technological Innovation), and Fundación Princesa Girona.
He also serves as Chairman of Fundación Repsol.
Antonio Brufau has been a Director of Repsol since he was first appointed by the Board of Directors on July 23rd, 1996 and was subsequently ratified at the Annual General Meeting held on June 6th, 1997. He was reelected at the Annual General Meetings held on March 24th, 1999, April 4th, 2003, May 9th, 2007, April 15th, 2011, and April 30th, 2015.

Ms. Elżbieta Bieńkowska
Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry , Entrepreneurship, SMEsElżbieta Bieńkowska - since 1 November 2014 - EU Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs in the European Commission of Jean-Claude Juncker. Between 2007 and 2013 she was the Minister for Regional Development of Poland and from 2013 to 2014, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Poland.
As the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Infrastructure and Development she was in charge of the strategic development system of the country, including the effective investment of the European funds.
Her work resulted in the full absorption of the EU funds from the budget for 2004-2006 and the successful distribution of almost EUR 68 billion granted to Poland for the years 2007-2013. She was managing the process of the preparation of the efficient EU funds implementation system from the EU budget for the years 2014-2020.
Apart from the European funds her tasks in the Polish Government included also the management of transport infrastructure (roads, railway, air traffic and ship transport) and issues related to construction and housing.
Before from 1999 to 2007 she was working for the local government of the Silesia Region in Southern Poland.
A graduate of the Jagiellonian University. She also graduated from the Polish National School of Public Administration and completed the business administration post graduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics.
Married, with three children.

Mr. Ángel Bautista
Director of Institutional Relations, RepsolMr. Bautista holds a Degree in Economics and Business Administration and a Master on Tax Consultancy Degree. He also holds a Directors Development Program Degree from IESE Business School. He joined Repsol in 1995 occupying several positions in the Division of Corporate Audit. In 2008 he was appointed Director of Financial Planning and five years later he was designated Head of Investor Relations. During this latter stage, Repsol was recognized as one of the best European Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investor’s engagement program, with special focus on responsible investment to incorporate these sustainability factors into investment decisions. He has also been recognized with several awards both from Extel Survey and the prestigious publication Institutional Investor. Currently, Mr. Bautista is Repsol’s Director of Institutional Relations, representing the Company in numerous fora, including Spanish and international energy-related organizations, with the purpose of promoting both Repsol's and its stakeholders' interests before these institutions.

Mr. Keith Mullin
Founder of KM Capital MarketsKeith Mullin is a renowned and widely-followed thought leader and commentator focusing on global banking and capital markets, financial regulation, environmental/sustainable finance and related areas. In 2017, he established KM Capital Markets, conducting media and communications consulting and advisory; proprietary and third-party event management, industry research, and writing opinion-forming market commentary and analysis.
Prior to this, Keith spent 27 years working for Thomson Reuters, most latterly as Editor-at-Large of the thought-leadership unit of the company’s Capital Markets Insight group. Before that he was Editor-in-Chief of capital markets publishing, responsible for a group of specialist titles including International Financing Review, as well as a global events business.
Keith has authored two books and has written in depth about a range of market segments for investment banking professionals including debt, equity and loan capital markets, securitization, financial derivatives, leveraged finance, emerging markets and more. He is also a Vice President of Save the Children, the global children’s charity. In 2017, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from HRH The Princess Royal, for his long-term efforts in raising funds for the organisation.

Mr. Jorge Núñez Ferrer
Senior Research Fellow, Economy and Finance Energy and Climate Change, Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS)Jorge Núñez Ferrer is Senior Research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). He is specialised in EU budgetary and financial instruments, but has also been involved in energy policies and in particular the development of smart cities. He is presently supporting the EIB as independent external advisor on the matters of the EU budget. He is also a member of the advisory group of the newly established ‘Kazarian Center for Public Financial Management’ bringing together key international specialists.
He has worked as academic, EU Commission official and consultant for governments on strategic planning for EU structural funds. He is the author of numerous studies for EU institutions on the EU budget and financial instruments, as well as on innovation policy and particularly smart cities. Amongst his latest works he has led the background study on EU resources for the High Level Group on Own Resources led by Mario Monti.
Jorge holds a PhD from Imperial College of the University of London.

Mr. Jeroen Schuppers
Deputy Head of Unit G2 - Advanced Energy Production, DG RTD, European CommissionJeroen Schuppers is Deputy Head of Unit for Advanced Energy Production within the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission. The unit supports the development of fuel cells and hydrogen technologies; capture, utilisation and geological storage of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel power plants and from carbon-intensive industries (CCUS); stationary energy storage; and energy system modelling. Jeroen Schuppers graduated in geology from Utrecht University and obtained a PhD from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Ms. Teresa C. Fogelberg
Deputy Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)The GRI produces the world’s most prevalent standards for sustainability reporting – also known as Environmental Social Governance (ESG) reporting. Before joining the GRI leadership, Ms Fogelberg held a number of high-level positions within the Dutch government. She was, amongst others, in charge of human rights, climate change, and scientific research; Ms Fogelberg is also a board member of WWF Netherlands, the second largest national WWF network. In addition, she sits on the board of IIED, the International Institute of Environment and Development. Teresa Fogelberg started her career as an anthropologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She spent eight years in West Africa working for development organisations such as the ILO and USAID, before joining the Netherlands Foreign Service as a diplomat. She developed the Famine early Warning System which is still used today by the US State department and USAID. Ms Fogelberg is a Dutch National of Swedish origin, and speaks five languages: English, Swedish, Dutch, French and German.

Mr. Pierre Barthelemy
Executive director Research and Innovation, European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic)Pierre Barthélemy joined Cefic in June 2014 as a secondee from Solvay and assumed the role of Executive Director of Research and Innovation in January 2015.
He is leading the Research and Innovation program in collaboration with Cefic member companies in the European chemical industry, including C-level executives. He is representing the priorities of the chemical industry toward the EU-institutions for innovation-related aspects, including funding schemes and policies.
Member of the board of SusChem (www.suschem.org) and A.SPIRE (www.spire2030.eu)
He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Liège, Belgium, in 1987, in the field of lanthanide coordination chemistry, followed by one year of postdoctoral research at Florida State University. He joined Solvay in 1988 in Brussels, Belgium, and moved to various R&D, management and senior leadership roles.
He worked for several years in the field of fluorocarbons (including a 3-year assignment in Hannover, Germany, as the Manager of global technical service and applications development), in the field of peptide pharmaceutical ingredients (including full responsibility for a wholly-owned subsidiary of Solvay) and in the field of materials for the emerging market of organic electronics (leading Solvay’s corporate R&I platform on Organic Electronics until mid-2014).