Speakers

Göran Andersson

Professor in Electric Power Systems, ETH Zurich.
Dr. Andersson was born in Malmö, Sweden. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degree from the University of Lund in 1975 and 1980, respectively. In 1980 he joined ASEA:s, now ABB, HVDC division in Ludvika, Sweden, and in 1986 he was appointed full professor in electric power systems at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2000
he is full professor in electric power systems at ETH Zurich, where he heads the powers systems laboratory. His research interests are in power system analysis and control, in particular power systems dynamics and control involving HVDC and other power electronics based equipment.
Göran Andersson is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers (IEEE), member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and
member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Jörg Doege

Jörg Doege is a practice specialist in the European risk management practice at McKinsey & Co., Inc., in Frankfurt. He recently finished his PhD at the Institute for Operations Research (IFOR) at ETH Zurich. In his dissertation, which was done under the supervision of Prof. Hans-Jakob Lüthi, a new risk engineering approach was developed to value the embedded flexibility within a utility’s portfolio. Jörg has also worked on several risk management related projects such as with Axpo/NOK, the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) and UBS.

Martin Eschle

Martin Eschle is an executive member of the “Nordostschweizerische Kraftwerke AG” (NOK) Trading and Sales Division and responsible for the Risk and Portfolio Management.
He received his Diploma in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 1991. In 1996 he obtained the diploma in business economics from the Business School of the University in Lausanne (HEC). In 1997 he graduated in physical chemistry at the EPFL. After his studies he worked for over four years for McKinsey & Co. Switzerland mainly in the fields of banking, telecommunications and electricity companies. In 2002 he started at Axpo AG, now a subsidiary of NOK AG, as Head of Risk Management for the trading and sales activities.
In developing the risk management at NOK/Axpo he focused his interests on the integration of new business models for liberalized markets and valuation methods for flexible contracts in an asset-based portfolio.

Massimo Filippini

Prof. Filippini holds a dual professorship in economics at the ETH Zurich and the University of Lugano since October 1999 and is one of the directors of CEPE, Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (ETH Zurich).
Professor Filippini was born in 1963. He studied economics at the University of Zurich, where he also received his doctorate. With various research grants, he has been a research fellow at the Economics Department of Harvard University and at the J.F.K. School of Government of the same university. He completed the requirements for his postdoctorate degree ”Habilitation” at the University of Zurich in 1996. In 2003 he was given the title of a Professor in economics at the University of Zurich.
Professor Filippini’s main research areas are the regulation and measurement of the efficiency of public and private firms, the estimation of the economic value of public goods, the analysis of energy demand and the deregulation of the electricity and gas sectors. Massimo Filippini has published books and articles on the following subjects: transport economics, public economics and energy economics.

Juri Hinz

Juri Hinz is a senior scientist at ETH Zurich, where he leads the Financial Engineering Group at the Institute for Operations Research. Before joining ETH Zurich, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Tuebingen.
His current research focuses on applications of financial mathematics to problems arising form liberalization in the energy industry. His publications deal with portfolio optimization, real-time auctions on electricity, modeling day-ahead electricity prices, pricing commodity derivatives, and applications of real option theory. He supervises the research project «Optimal Dispatch of Hydro-Electric Plants» at ETH Zurich and consults energy-related companies in Switzerland, Germany and Mexico.

Hans-Jakob Lüthi

Prof. Dr. H.-J. Lüthi studied mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and obtained a doctorate degree in 1973. He was a lecturer at ETH in operations research, visiting professor at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY and Center of Operations Research at MIT. Before joining the department of mathematics of ETH in 1993 as Professor of Operations Research he was directing a consulting firm in the area of information and organizational engineering.
His main research areas are mathematics of OR, applications of OR in risk management and the design of intelligent decision support systems in operations management.

Martina Wilhelm

Martina Wilhelm is currently a PhD-student at the Institute for Operations Research at ETH Zurich.
She holds a diploma in mathematics and obtained the well-known Walter- Saxer-Preis in 2004 for her diploma thesis on the topic of continuous time portfolio problems, which was done at the University of Waterloo (Canada).
Martina’s main research interest focuses on stochastic control problems and on pricing derivatives in commodity markets.