Maria Ramos is a leading a International News Anchor with a global reputation as an MC, Event Host and Moderator, working with governments and many of the world’s major organisations and corporations.

Maria can be seen daily presenting live news at TRT World from London (17-21GMT) and hosting the flagship news programme – the ‘News Hour with Maria Ramos’. She possesses a vast knowledge and expertise in international affairs and a sure touch when covering humanitarian, political and global issues – a huge asset for her work as a much sought-after Conference Host and Moderator with the United Nations and the European Parliament. In corporate circles, Bosch Siemens are among the major companies who have praised Maria’s work as an MC and facilitator.

Maria is a highly-acclaimed and engaging Master of Ceremonies, receiving rapturous reviews as the host of the World Travel and Tourism Council Global Summit  in Saudi Arabia, where her language skills and ability to work an audience came to the fore. British-born to Spanish parents, Maria is a native fluent Spanish speaker. She can also speak some French, Italian, Arabic and Turkish.

Prior to joining TRT World, Maria reported/anchored for the BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, UNICEF and Bahrain TV.  Over the past 20 years, she has lived in, and reported from countries all around the globe with long stints in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Latin America.

In the business world, she worked as an advisor to the CEO of Formula E and founded a London/Madrid-based international media consultancy for European blue chip companies.

35+ years of experience in Industry with international management position in Strategy, R&D, Product development, Business & services.

Prior experience :

– 5 years in GE Vernova, Leading Product & Technology Roadmap with a focus on external growth since early 2025

– 3 years in Danfoss as CTO and responsible for the key technology partnerships.

– 19 years in Schneider-Electric, (Head of Energy Strategy and Innovation , head of advanced services and project engineering for Industry, Managing the Automation Division of Schneider for more than 4 years, head of Drives R&D and then the Drives product portfolio making the Joint-Venture between Schneider and Toshiba,)

– 7 years in Alstom Transportation (project manager of the Northen Line embedded computer system in the last position)

Olivier Sala was appointed the Group Vice President of Research & Innovation at ENGIE in July 2021. Passionate about energy & carbon transition challenges and how technologies can contribute, Olivier is an experienced VP with a demonstrated history of working in the Energy and Services industry.

In 1993, Olivier Sala graduated from the University of Technology in Compiègne with a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, and in 1996 from ESSEC. He began his career at Air Liquide before moving into consulting at A.T. Kearney, followed by the Boston Consulting Group.

ENGIE is a leading world group that provides low-carbon energy, and aims to meet the challenges of climate change by achieving Net Zero Carbon by 2045. Guided by its objective statement, ENGIE reconciles economic performance with a positive impact on people and the planet, using its expertise in four core businesses: renewable energy, energy solutions, networks, thermal generation and energy supply.

After starting his career as a researcher in Portugal, Marco Ferraz moved to San Francisco to work as a visiting researcher at USGS, in collaboration with NASA. In 2009, he relocated to Australia to pursue a PhD at the University of Sydney, where he was also an auxiliary professor at the School of Geosciences.

Upon returning to Portugal in 2012, Marco joined Galp as a Geoscientist in Upstream, contributing to some of the company’s most prominent assets. Today, he leads the Upstream & Industrial Innovation Center at Galp, managing over 60 research, development, and innovation projects in Portugal and Brazil. These initiatives span oil and gas production, refining processes, and energy transition topics such as hydrogen, low-carbon fuels, carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), and energy storage.

Marco is also chairman of the board of the Net4CO2 collaborative laboratory and board member of Bioref Colab.

Vincent Guerré is the founding partner and current Chairman of ENOSIS, a pioneering French clean-tech company based in Toulouse that transforms CO₂ and non-reusable waste into renewable gases using proprietary biological methanation technology. Since launching ENOSIS in late 2014, he has steered the company from laboratory research to industrial deployment—culminating in the construction of Denobio, France’s first industrial-scale biomethanation facility integrated with an agricultural methanization unit, set to inject synthetic methane into the natural gas network starting in 2025. Under his leadership, ENOSIS has developed and commercialized advanced equipment lines such as Bimotep (a mobile biomethanation testing unit), Demetha (a pre-industrial biomethanation prototype), and Plainenergie (Europe’s first demonstration project converting territorial waste into injectible gas). In 2022, Guerré successfully led a €3 million equity fundraise from Industrya, UI Investissement, and Banque des Territoires—backing ENOSIS’s industrialization expansion under France 2030’s “Territoires d’innovation” program. He also forged a global partnership with engineering group John Cockerill to expand biomethane production and CO₂-recycling solutions across new markets. Early in his career, Vincent worked at STMicroelectronics, where he drove semiconductor innovations for the smartphone sector, and later at PRIMAGAZ, where he led its sales, marketing, and business unit operations. Vincent holds a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics and Telecommunications, along with an MBA from HEC, anchored by his foundational studies in political science. Through his leadership, ENOSIS now stands at the forefront of the circular economy—harnessing biological methanation to create sustainable, grid-injectible renewable gas, bridging electricity and gas networks while enabling energy storage and decarbonization.

Francois Koppenol has been active in venture capital as a lawyer for 20 years, advising both investors and founders. He focuses on investments (in its many forms such as equity, SAFEs, convertibles, venture debt), shareholders’ agreements, governance, employee incentive schemes and foreign direct investments controls. He has also been involved in many exits and liquidations.

Raphael Vaquer has been with Société Générale for over a decade, holding roles in both Hong Kong and London. He specializes in structuring and financing complex renewables, power, and first-of-a-kind energy transition projects across Asia and EMEA. Raphael has built deep expertise in offshore wind financing, advising clients on numerous large-scale projects in the UK and Taiwan. In recent years, he has become a leading advisor on bespoke financing structures for innovative assets such as interconnectors, carbon capture, and carbon transport and storage projects. Most notably, he advised sponsors of the Net Zero Teesside Power and Northern Endurance Partnership transactions, which together raised approximately £8 billion and represent the first project-financed carbon capture and storage projects globally. These landmark transactions, central to the UK’s East Coast Cluster, were recognized as Deal of the Year at the PFI Awards 2024, where Société Générale was also named Global Financial Adviser of the Year. His work is helping advance the UK’s net zero ambitions and accelerating the global transition to a low-carbon economy. Raphael holds an MEng in Electrical Engineering from CentraleSupélec.

Eduardo Martinez Granados is Director of Energy and Infrastructure Finance at ING Spain & Portugal, where he has spent over eight years structuring and closing more than 20 landmark financing transactions in the Iberian market. Notably, he led the first-ever biomethane project financing in Spain, demonstrating ING’s commitment to advancing the energy transition. Since 2019, Eduardo has been an active member of ING’s New Energy Technologies initiative, contributing to the development of the green hydrogen and derivatives industry in Iberia and advocating for their role in decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors. He regularly participates in industry events, such as the Green Gas Mobility Summit, where he shares insights on renewable gas trends, innovative business models, and investment strategies that accelerate sector growth. Eduardo has also played a key role in major transactions, including ING’s support of AGR Biogás and SWEN Capital Partners in biomethane plant construction, as well as Sonnedix’s €2.5 billion portfolio refinancing, where ING acted as Sole ESG Coordinator and Hedge Provider. His work reflects a strong commitment to sustainable finance, helping clients scale renewable energy, energy storage, and hybrid projects across Europe. Eduardo began his career at Cintra, the road concession subsidiary of Ferrovial, working in Madrid and Dallas, Texas. He holds a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM).

Besides her academic career in the fields of knowledge management, collaborative innovation and entrepreneurship, Elena Bou developed her professional career in the field of management consulting in both private and public companies. In 2010 she co-founded EIT InnoEnergy, the innovation engine for sustainable energy across Europe supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

She contributed to create InnoEnergy’s trusted innovation ecosystem which operates in more than 26 countries. In Elena’s Innovation Director role, she led the development of major efforts in creating and accelerating new start-ups and scale-ups in the energy field, including the investment process in such ventures. As a result, the company has now supported nearly 500 start-ups, including two unicorns.

Diego Pavía is a serial entrepreneur, having created seven companies in his lifetime. His main endeavour is to innovate, create – and implement operationally – all with the objective of creating value.

He is an electrical engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, with a major in electronics and automation. In 1988, he was as co-founder and CEO of a start-up, Knowledge Engineering, dealing with industrial controls systems using artificial intelligence and neural networks. Three years later he joined Sema Group, and started a long career with private companies. In SchlumbergerSema, Diego headed multicultural working groups all over the world in the field of energy, with revenues of $650M. Between 2002 and 2010, Diego was the CEO of Atos Origin, a leading international IT service provider, where he was responsible for Spain and South America, about 9,000 employees, and an annual turnover of €450 million.

Since 2010 and under Diego’s leadership, EIT InnoEnergy has become the largest global organisation supporting innovation and entrepreneurship in sustainable energy, having directly deployed €650M to nearly 500 innovative products and services.

Dr. Philipp Matthes is a senior investment manager at Siemens Financial Services and has over 15 years of experience in the energy industry. With his background in different roles such as strategy, business development and M&A he is now promoting sustainable investments to drive the energy transition and industrial decarbonisation. He has established a successful cooperation between Siemens Financial Services and InnoEnergy and facilitated several co-investments. In addition, for the past 5 years he was managing director of WUN H2, one of the largest operating green hydrogen plants in Germany which he successfully drove through development and construction into operations. He has a diploma as well as a PhD in business administration from the University of Regensburg, Germany and a MBA from Murray State University, USA.

Mrs. Dr. Yun Luo is co-founder and CEO of ROSI, a French deeptech startup company leading the campaign of circular economy for photovoltaic industry. She holds a bachelor’s degree of physics from Fudan University in Shanghai (CN), a Diploma of Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris (FR), and a PhD degree in Microstructure Physics from Max-Planck-Institute in Germany. With full respect to science, technology, and industry, today Dr. Luo is leading ROSI team at worldwide forefront towards high value critical raw materials recycling and revalorization from and for photovoltaic industry, a key element for the successful relocalization and revival of European PV manufacturing.

Jacob Ruiter has held various positions in a wide variety of companies all related to energy. In his previous role he was the Director, Country Manager Energy Advisory of Benelux at DNV GL, where he was responsible for energy and renewables advisory activities in the Benelux, Africa and Middle East.

Previous to that, he worked for Dutch Utilities company, Essent, where he had a number of roles including Managing Director for metering data, Managing Director for local energy solutions and Managing Director for B2B.

Jacob began his career with oilfield service company, Schlumberger, as a wire-line field engineer. It was from there that he moved onto more commercial roles, starting with the position of Regional Manager Europe for drill pipe manufacturer Grant Prideco.

Jacob holds an M.Sc. in Mining Engineering from the Delft University of Technology and an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management.

A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of Warsaw University and joint Warsaw School of Economics’ and the Paris SciencesPo Programme of European Studies. Holds MBA diploma from WSE and University of Quebec at Montreal. Between 2000 and 2004 Mr. Lewenstein worked in the Polish public affairs sector, the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw and the Secretariat General of the European Commission. In 2004 he began his work for Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo S.A. in the field of European integration and the energy sector regulatory framework. In 2006 and early 2007 Mr. Lewenstein worked in the European Commission, in DG Information Society and Media. After returning to Poland, he became the Director of the Office of the Polish Electricity Association. In 2008 he rejoined PGNiG S.A., where he was responsible for planning of Group’s strategy, business expansion and development of the company’s power generation projects as the Director of Strategy Department. Since January 2016 he works for InnoEnergy as Innovation Officer and Thematic Field Leader of Energy for Circular Economy.