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

2021-2022Cristian StetNetherlands
2019-2020Pablo BenalcazarPoland
2017-2018Fabian MoislAustria
2015-2016Lisa Marina KochGermany
2013-2014Patrick NarbelSwitzerland
2011-2012Iva HristovaFrance
2010Marcos WatanabeBrazil
2009Merrill J. BarradaleUSA
2009Marcos WatanabeBrazil
2008Merrill J. BarradaleUSA
2008Christian RedlAustria
2007Phillia RestianiAustralia
2007Christian RedlAustria
2006Phillia RestianiAustralia
2006Hadi HalloucheUK
2005Carole Le HenaffFrance
2005Hadi HalloucheUK
2004Carole Le HenaffFrance
2004Steffen SacharowitzGermany
2003Eliska KotikovaCzech Republic
2003Steffen SacharowitzGermany
2002Monika MechurovaCzech Republic
2002Peter KobosUSA
2001Stine Grenaa JensenDenmark
2001Alberto Elizalde BaltierraMexico