Faculty & Experts

Energy Delta Institute works with over 150 international guest lecturers who form a unique mixture of academic specialists and industry experts. 

We work closely with a group of professors and industry experts in various fields who guarantee the academic quality of our programmes as well as with a number of industry experts who ensure that our programmes are always relevant to what is happening in the real world. In fact, our programmes combine the best of two worlds: our professors are often involved in business and our industry experts have a solid academic background.

Professors & Industry Experts

Photo Yanos Michopoulos ambassador New Energy Business School

Yanos Michopoulos

Dr Yanos Michopoulos is one of the greatest authorities in the gas world. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of DESFA, the newly privatised gas transmission operator in Greece. Next to that he is active as expert and ambassador for Energy Delta Institute, works with the UK’s Institute of Directors and other training organisation as leadership course leader, mentor, coach, and guest speaker for MBA and executive education.

With a PhD in Physics (Durham University) and over 30 years of senior international experience in various energy and related sectors, including oil & gas, renewables, infrastructure, shipping, and private equity, Yanos has a wide variety of expertise. He has led major change projects, including major organisational and cultural transformations, financial and performance turnarounds, introduction of new products and services, and new market entries. He has led, mentored, and coached large and diverse teams, operating across different functions, and distributed in various locations, countries, and cultures.

Photo Andrej Pustišek

Andrej Pustišek

Dr Andrej Pustišek teaches energy economics at the University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany and at the University of Karlsruhe (KIT), Germany. He owns a consulting company providing services to international natural gas and energy companies. From 2002 to 2012, he worked for E.ON Ruhrgas, first as Senior Vice President International Natural Gas Sales and from 2008 as Senior/Executive Vice President Portfolio Management.

Photo professor Catrinus Jepma

Catrinus Jepma

Catrinus Jepma is one of New Energy Coalition’s energy experts and professor of Energy and Sustainability at the University of Groningen. His field of expertise is energy policy and markets, environmental impact and policy issues, energy efficiency measures and energy technologies. Thanks to his years of involvement as (coordinating) lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), professor Jepma received a personalised certificate for his share in the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC in 2007.