The Student Representative serves as the Council’s liaison for all student-related activities organized by or involving IAEE and its Affiliates. This role includes coordinating with student representatives across Affiliates and conferences to maintain and strengthen IAEE’s portfolio of student programs and initiatives.
IAEE Student Representative 2025-2026
Han Yan
PhD Candidate in Economics, Department of Economics, and graduate fellow in Center of Energy Studies, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University

Student Representative Responsibilities
- Represents all IAEE student members to the Council with his or her vote. At least two Council Meetings take place each year in the course of annual IAEE conferences. For each Council Meeting, the Student Representative’s duties include preparing reports on student activities, achievements of affiliate student chapters and student member statistics.
- Responsible for, or helps organize student events that take place during IAEE conferences; for example: PhD Day, student poster session, best student paper award, student happy hour, student breakfast, etc.
- Coordinates and encourages communication between affiliate student chapters especially at annual meetings of the affiliate student chapter leaders in the course of IAEE conferences.
- IAEE’s contact person for all student and young professional members and all those who might intend to become one.

Interested in Being a Student Representative?
The Student Representative is elected by ballots of all IAEE members for a single two-year term and is a member of the Council. If you want to apply for the position as Student Representative in the forthcoming period please contact IAEE Headquarters.
Former Student Representatives
| 2021-2022 | Cristian Stet | Netherlands |
| 2019-2020 | Pablo Benalcazar | Poland |
| 2017-2018 | Fabian Moisl | Austria |
| 2015-2016 | Lisa Marina Koch | Germany |
| 2013-2014 | Patrick Narbel | Switzerland |
| 2011-2012 | Iva Hristova | France |
| 2010 | Marcos Watanabe | Brazil |
| 2009 | Merrill J. Barradale | USA |
| 2009 | Marcos Watanabe | Brazil |
| 2008 | Merrill J. Barradale | USA |
| 2008 | Christian Redl | Austria |
| 2007 | Phillia Restiani | Australia |
| 2007 | Christian Redl | Austria |
| 2006 | Phillia Restiani | Australia |
| 2006 | Hadi Hallouche | UK |
| 2005 | Carole Le Henaff | France |
| 2005 | Hadi Hallouche | UK |
| 2004 | Carole Le Henaff | France |
| 2004 | Steffen Sacharowitz | Germany |
| 2003 | Eliska Kotikova | Czech Republic |
| 2003 | Steffen Sacharowitz | Germany |
| 2002 | Monika Mechurova | Czech Republic |
| 2002 | Peter Kobos | USA |
| 2001 | Stine Grenaa Jensen | Denmark |
| 2001 | Alberto Elizalde Baltierra | Mexico |