2025 Election Results

We are pleased to announce the results of our recent IAEE Elections:

President-Elect (Term: 2025)
Aaron Praktiknjo

  • Current Affiliation: Professor of Energy System Economics, E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  • Education: Doctorate in Industrial Engineering and Economics, TU Berlin, Germany
  • Former Affiliations: Assistant Professor at RWTH Aachen University, PostDoc at TU Berlin, Freelance Consultant
  • IAEE activities: Member since 2009. Member of Council (2020-21). Vice President Conferences (2022-2024). President of the German Affiliate GEE (2018-).
  • Additional Memberships/Affiliations: Editorial Board Member of Scientific Data, Nature (2024-), Deputy Managing Director at International Association of Indonesian Scientists I-4 for UK & Europe (2024-)


Vice President for Finance (Term: 2025-2026)
Andrew Slaughter

  • Current Affiliation (2019-2024): Retired energy executive. Part time teaching duties as Adjunct Faculty in the University of Houston Bauer Business School
  • Education (1973-1980): Liverpool University, UK
  • Former Affiliations (1980-2019): Economic, energy market and investment analysis and executive roles with Chevron Oil; Arthur D. Little; DRI-McGraw Hill; Shell Upstream Americas; IHS; Deloitte
  • IAEE Activities: Member for over 20 years. Former USAEE Council member, former chair of USAEE conference sponsorship committee, former USAEE VP Conferences, Current IAEE VP Finance


Vice President for Communications (Term: 2025-2026)
Swetha Ravi Kumar

  • Current Affiliation: Executive Director of FSR Global Council, India; since 2019
  • Education: Master’s degree in Sustainable Energy Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Erasmus Scholar), Sweden; an Advanced Management Program from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM B), India; and Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India.
  • Former affiliations: Head of FSR Global, Florence School of Regulation FSR (since 2017)
  • IAEE activities: VP communications at IAEE (2022-2025)
  • Additional Memberships/Affiliations: Founding Board Member and VP communications at IAEE India


Vice President for Academic Affairs (Term: 2025-2026)
Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr

  • Current Affiliation: Professor of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway.
  • Education: PhD in Economics, University of Oslo, Norway.
  • Former Affiliations: Dean, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Oslo (2016-2019). Head, Department of Economics, University of Oslo (2008-2015). Visiting fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford (1998-1999).
  • IAEE Activities: Member since 1994. Vice President for Academic Affairs since 2023. Member of editorial board of “Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy” since 2011.
  • Additional Memberships/Affiliations: Research Fellow, Centre on Regulation in Europe.


Vice President for Membership and Affiliate Relations (Term: 2025-2026)
Roula Inglesi-Lotz

  • Current Affiliation: Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; Head, Energy Economics Research Unit (EERU), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
  • Education: PhD in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa (2011); Masters of Economics (cum Laude), Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa (2009); BCom Economics, Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • IAEE Activities: IAEE Vice President for Regional Affairs (2021-2024); IAEE member since 2016; Hellenic Association for Energy Economics (HAEE) member since 2016; Founding President of the South African Association for Energy Economics (SAAEE); President of SAAEE (2018 -2022).
  • Additional Memberships/Affiliations: co-chair Global Young Academy (GYA) 2021/22 (elected member since 2018); co-chair of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) 2020 (elected member since 2017); Editorial team Energy Policy since 2022; Alumni of the Future Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) 2019; Member at the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD); Member of the Association for the Advancement of African Women Economists (AAAWE)


Vice President for Business and Government Affairs (Term: 2025-2026)
Seung-Jin Kang

  • Current Affiliation: Professor Emeritus at Graduate School of Convergence Technology and Energy, Tech University of Korea; since 1st Mar. 2023
  • Education: PhD in Applied Economics, Grenoble Alpes University, France
  • Former Affiliations: Professor at Graduate School of Convergence Technology and Energy, Tech University of Korea (2002-2023); Chairman of Electricity Regulatory Commission, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (2019-2022); Research Fellow at Korea Energy Economics Institute (1983-2002)
  • IAEE Activities: Member since 2005; Organizer of 36th IAEE International Conference at Daegu, Korea (2013)
  • Additional Memberships/Affiliations: Member of Korean Resource Economics Association; Member of Board of Directors, Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP)


Student Representative (Term: 2025-2026)
Ange Blanchard

  • Current Affiliation: PhD student at CentraleSupelec, Paris Saclay University, and the Climate Economics Chair, Paris Dauphine University, PSL*.
  • Education: Master’s degree in Engineering from ISAE-SUPAERO. Master's degree in Energy Economics from the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech. Master's degree in Operational Research from Paul Sabatier University.
  • Additional affiliations/memberships, past and present: Affiliated with the chair “the Economics of Gas” at the Ecole des Mines ParisTech in Paris, France.


We thank all of those who participated in selecting leadership for 2025 and beyond.

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