Luca Lo Schiavo is currently a Senior Regulatory Specialist at ERRA (Energy Regulators Regional Association). Previously, he served as Director of the Market Monitoring and Energy System Services Directorate and Deputy Director of the Energy Infrastructure Regulation Directorate at the Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy Networks and Environment (ARERA), where he has worked since its establishment in 1997. He also spent one year as seconded national expert at ACER (European Agency for the cooperation of energy regulators).

He is an expert on quality of service, smart metering and innovation in the electricity sector.

He has coauthored books and many regulatory papers, one of which (“Changing the regulation for regulating the change”, on the new role of regulatory authorities in the energy sector transformation) won an international Award at World Forum of Energy Regulation in 2012.

Luca graduated in Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and after an initial period in management consultancy he worked for the Department of Public Administration (a Department of the Italian Prime Minister Office) on the topic of the quality of public services, before joining the energy regulator.