About Enerdata

Thierry joined Enerdata in 2012 and heads the Energy & Climate Statistics team since 2022. He leads a team of statisticians and analysts collecting, reviewing and harmonising worldwide energy and climate statistics to deliver comprehensive online databases. Thierry has led and contributed to numerous projects related to energy market analysis and data management. Previously, he led the Research team, made of analysts and experts, providing information services and customs studies.

Before joining Enerdata, Thierry worked for several years in various industries in Europe and Northern America. Thierry holds an M.Sc. in Energy Economics from the Grenoble Alpes University and an M.Sc. in Business Management from the KEDGE Business School.

Hanane Blanco joined Enerdata in 2023 where is heading the HR and Finance departments.

Previously, Hanane was HR Director for more than 10 years of a fast-growing software company, and then Finance Director of an industrial group listed on the stock exchange. She has worked in international environments and managed numerous teams in France and around the world. She is specialised in structuring organisations and teams in a context of accelerated growth.

Hanane has a Master's degree in management from Grenoble Ecole de management (GEM).

Sylvain joined Enerdata in 2014 and heads the Global Energy Forecasting department since 2017. He is responsible for advisory and consulting activities related to supply and demand forecasts in global energy markets. He oversees a team of analysts and modelling experts producing quantified strategic insights for public and private actors of the energy sector.

His prior experience includes a 10-year collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology on energy model development and energy system analysis, with a focus on the European electricity and carbon markets.

Sylvain graduated in Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering from the ENSEIRB-MATMECA and holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanics from the ENSAM/University Bordeaux 1.

Pascal Charriau is President and CEO of Enerdata since January 2013, when he became Enerdata's reference shareholder.

Before Enerdata, Pascal held several top management positions within Schneider Electric, where he developed a strong industrial background on energy issues and a large international experience. Among other experiences, Pascal has often been involved in developing businesses in new countries, including M&A projects and intercultural management.

Joining Enerdata was an ideal way for him to satisfy his passion for energy and sustainable development issues and his entrepreneurship spirit. During his career, Pascal and his family lived for almost 10 years in foreign countries (Czech Republic, Spain). He speaks French, English, Spanish, Czech and some German.

Pascal graduated as an electrical engineer from Supelec.

Morgan joined Enerdata in 2011 and heads the Innovation team since 2022.  He leads a team of qualified energy analysts specialised in power sector, energy markets and energy transition risk for financial and corporate institutions. The team leverages its globally recognised information services to produce insightful analysis on the trends and evolutions of energy systems and decarbonisation trends at world level. Morgan has been involved in numerous advisory and modelling projects related to energy supply, demand and price forecasts and decarbonisation projections.

Prior to that, he was in charge of the Data & Research team at Enerdata and has been working as an analyst in the Low Carbon Product team within EDF Energy in London. He graduated in 2009 as an engineer from the Ecole Polytechnique and completed a Master of environmental technology at the Imperial College.

Florence Dal joined Enerdata in 2006 and is heading the Information Systems department of Enerdata. She supervises a team of web developers, database developers and IT experts. The Information Systems team develops web interfaces for Enerdata's information services and carries out online database projects on behalf of clients. Florence is a Drupal CMS specialist.

Before joining Enerdata, Florence worked at Capgemini, leader in IT consulting. She was involved in several projects of Web applications developments for large industrial companies.

Florence holds a graduate degree in computer sciences and information systems from DESS Génie Informatique (computer engineering).

Dr. Bruno Lapillonne is co-founder and Vice President of Enerdata.

He has a recognised expertise in energy consumption analysis and energy efficiency assessment and has consulted extensively for many Governments.

He has also coordinated several European Commission projects and is the technical coordinator of the European project Odyssee on energy efficiency indicators involving all energy efficiency agencies in Europe. He has been for over 20 years the technical coordinator of several reports of the World Energy Council (WEC) and ADEME on the benchmarking of energy efficiency policies at world level.

Bruno graduated as Electrical Engineer from Grenoble INP and holds a PhD in Energy Economics.

Christian Mollard joined Enerdata in 2009 and manages a multinational team of business developers and marketing specialists. Their mission is to provide the best possible client relation to Enerdata's key accounts (global energy companies and policymakers), develop new markets and channels, find business and partnership opportunities and maximise the company's brand awareness throughout the world.

Previously, Christian held business development and product management positions at SAGEM and Avanquest Software, in the US and Europe.

Christian earned an MBA at Aston University (UK) and graduated from Grenoble School of Management (France). He speaks French, English and German.

Fabrice joined Enerdata in 2021 together with the team of Infinergia that he founded in 2009.

He manages the “Clean Tech” team that executes market research, go-to-market strategy consulting and techno-market due diligence.

He has over 25 years of experience of the industry & consulting. He’s helped multiple customers to bring their innovations to the market. He has a dual training in electronics and a marketing management degree from KEDGE Business School.

Marie is in charge of the energy efficiency and demand team at Enerdata. She leads a team of experts specialised in energy demand analysis and energy efficiency evaluation, both historical and prospective. Marie and her team work for ministries, government agencies and major energy groups that they accompany on these subjects. In particular, Marie and her team are part of the technical team coordinating the Odyssee-Mure project.

Before joining Enerdata, Marie worked for 10 years as a researcher on the study of the impacts of climate on the cryosphere, then as a consultant in the accompaniment of territories to the energy transition.

Marie graduated as an engineer from the National Polytechnic Institute in Grenoble (Grenoble INP) and holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the Federal Polytechnic Institute Zurich (ETHZ). Her qualification also includes an MSc in Energy Economics from the Grenoble Alpes University.

Aurélien BIGO is a researcher on the energy transition of transport.

At the end of 2020, he defended a thesis on the subject "Transport facing the challenge of energy transition. Explorations between past and future, technology and sufficiency, acceleration and slowdown", which studies the levers of transition in the sector in France.

He then worked on the transport component of ADEME's Transition(s) 2050 scenarios, and is now an associate researcher at the Energy and Prosperity Chair.

Ariane BOUSQUET is a PhD candidate in a public-private contract between the Centre d’Étude des Politiques Économiques d’Évry (EPEE) and Renault Group, attached to the Energy and Prosperity Chair.

Her current work focuses on the impacts of environmental policies on the French car fleet.

Patrick CRIQUI (HEC-75) is the Senior Researcher at CNRS and Director of the Economics of Sustainable Development and Energy Research Group (PACTE-EDDEN, CNRS-UGA, Grenoble). His research has primarily explored solar energy economics and modelling of international energy markets. He has also developed a world renown energy model, POLES, currently used by Enerdata, the European Commission and different administrations and companies across Europe to analyse economic and climate policies.

Patrick has been a lead author in IPCC’s Working Group Three (Nobel Peace Prize in 2007). An active member of the Economic Council for Sustainable Development by the French Minister of Ecology since 2008, he has been a scenario expert for the National Debate on Energy Transition (2013) and for the National R&D Strategy on Energy (2014). He has also been a member of the expert committee for the French National Low Carbon Strategy since 2015, and has taught in several universities around the world.

Dr. Manfred HAFNER is a recognised expert on energy scenario building, supply-demand assessment, energy policy analysis, market and strategy studies on all energy sources with a special focus on gas and power markets.

During his almost 30 years of working in the field of energy, in which he has consulted extensively for energy companies, governments and international organisations, he has gained considerable world-wide working experience; in particular on European, Middle Eastern, North African, Russian and CIS markets.

He has coordinated several major interdisciplinary research projects for the European Commission.

Manfred HAFNER is also Professor of International Energy, teaching at Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe and Sciences Po Paris.

Dr. Bruno LAPILLONNE has a recognised expertise in energy consumption analysis and energy efficiency assessment and has consulted extensively for many Governments.

He has also coordinated several European Commission projects and is the technical coordinator of the European project Odyssee on energy efficiency indicators involving all energy efficiency agencies in Europe. He has been for over 20 years the technical coordinator of several reports of the World Energy Council (WEC) and ADEME on the benchmarking of energy efficiency policies at world level.

Bruno graduated as Electrical Engineer from Grenoble INP and holds a PhD in Energy Economics.

Dr. Gerd LEIPOLD is an expert on sustainability, public policy and communication, with wide knowledge in global energy and environmental issues.

LEIPOLD studied physics in Munich and Physical Oceanography at the University of Hamburg. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. His Ph.D. advisor was Prof. Klaus Hasselmann, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics.

From 1982 to 1987 he was the director of a major NGO in Germany, and became its global Executive Director from 2001 to 2009.

He leads Climate Transparency, a global partnership of 16 organisations from 14 countries. Climate Transparency compares the climate action respectively undertaken by the G20 countries.

LEIPOLD is Chair of the Board of the University of Applied Science, Biberach. He is also a trustee of the Humboldt–Viadrina School of Governance, and a member of the advisory board of the German development organisation Welthungerhilfe.

Alain MALOT is Digital grid portfolio Strategy Manager at Schneider Electric where he has held various positions during his 36-year career. As an expert in energy systems flexibility, he partakes in several working groups: demand side flexibility for distribution networks from CIRED and SmartEn European Demand flexibility coalition. He conducts permanent research on the evolution of flexibility across the world, through various axes: policy and regulatory issues, evolutions, innovations and more.

Alain MALOT is also visiting Professor for Smart Grid at Grenoble INP and Grenoble Ecole de Management.

Dr. Silvana MIMA is Senior Researcher (CNRS) at GAEL (Grenoble Applied Economy Laboratory), where she contributes to develop, maintain, and use the POLES model on the transformation of the energy system towards a low carbon economy and estimation of climate change impacts in the energy sector.

She is interested also on the new energy technology developments (Fuel-cells, hydrogen, carbon capture and sequestration, renewables), DSM, energy markets and policy analysis.

She has participated in many of the research programmes of the institute, particularly in several EU Framework Programme projects (WETO-H2, SAPIENTIA, CASCADE-MINTS, MENGTECH, SECURE, ADAM, Climate Cost, AMPERE, ADVANCE, RIPPELS, IMAGINE, ACRA).

She is also a member of the GP 9 ANCRE and has taught in several universities.