| Team
Curriculum Vitae
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| Name: |
Pierre Bernard |
| Company: |
Elia System operator (B) |
| Nationality: |
Belgian |
Position in the
project: |
WG 5 Leader
(legal issues) |
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Pierre Bernard (48) got his law degrees from the Universities of Brussels (ULB-Belgium)
and Ottawa (Canada). He started his career as a lawyer in Montreal (Canada) in 1985 and
specialised in foreign investment, competition and trade matters.
He joined in 1995 the
Belgian world leader in hunting and related sporting goods products and made it to Deputy
CEO in charge of Outdoor products sales and legal & regulatory affairs.
Afterwards,
he joined the then to become Belgian transmission system operator just before the
incorporation of Elia, in January 2001, as Head of the Legal Department and became,
in 2003, also Secretary General of Elia. As such, he actively participated in the
organization of Elia as an independent company, in the drafting of the Federal and
Regional grid codes in Belgium and contributed to other legislative texts, drafted
also the first grid contracts, etc.
P. Bernard has been designated in 2004 as Convenor
of the ETSO Task Force "Network of Experts on Legal and Regulatory Issues (L&RI TF)".
He has extensive international experience and has published various contributions in
this field.
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