WindEurope’s Board of Directors
As a non-profit association, WindEurope is governed by a Board of Directors
The Board meets 4 times to year and is made up of 29 people. 22 of these are the Market Leaders and Leading Members of WindEurope. Then there are 4 elected representatives of the other corporate members of WindEurope and 3 elected representatives of the national wind energy associations.
The Board is chaired by the CEO of one of the Market Leaders or Leading Members. They are supported by a Vice-Chair.
The current Chair is José Luis Blanco, CEO of Nordex Group. The current Vice-Chair is Alfredo Parres del Toro, Group SVP, Head of Renewables, Hitachi Energy. They are serving an 18-month term which will end in March 2025.
The WindEurope Secretariat is accountable to the Board. So are WindEurope’s 10 Working Groups. The Chairs of the Working Groups are all members of the Board
Here is the full list of the current Board members:
José Luis Blanco
CEO
WindEurope Board Chair
Alfredo Parres del Toro
Group SVP, Head of Renewables
WindEurope Board Vice-Chair
Luis Martí Alvarez
Director of Regulatory Affairs
Juan Virgilio Márquez López
Director General
Philipp Pfefferle
Head of Global Advocacy and Communications
Peter Hjuler Jensen
Deputy Head of Department
Carlotta Gentile Latino
Director, France
Jorge Casillas Jorrin
Executive Director of Regulation, Markets and Global Risk Analysis
Andrea Panizzo
Head of Wind Supply
Andreas Becker
Head of Regulatory Affairs
Chantal Bouessay
Head of Public Affairs & Onshore wind Regulation
Anders Ystad
Head of Regulatory, Policy & Markets
Luca Bragoli
Chief Regulatory & Public Affairs Officer
Markus Becker
Head of Governmental Affairs and Policy, Europe
Jan Hylleberg
Deputy CEO
Juan Rivier de Abbad
Head of Regulation and Prospective
Javier Sanz Rodriguez
Thematic Leader Renewable Energies
Rebecca Sedler
Managing Director, Interconnectors
Tony Adam
Global Public Affairs
Ulrik Stridbæk
Vice President, Head of Regulatory Affairs
Dan McGrail
CEO
Laura Rol Rua
Deputy Director of Regulation and Stakeholder Relations
Matilda Afzelius
CEO RES in the Nordics
Nadine Janecke
Director Strategy, Regulatory Affairs & Business Transformation
Yiğit Güven
GM Commercial Europe
Jon Lezamiz Cortazar
Head of Advocacy
Christian Edin
Vice President, Strategic Customer Management
Samira Barakat
Business Unit Head
Kresten Ørnbjerg
VP, Head of Global Public Affairs
Martin Knops
CTO
WindEurope (Articles of Association) Statutes
Find out more about how the association operates in WindEurope’s Statutes.
