Luca Lo Schiavo is currently a Senior Regulatory Specialist at ERRA (Energy Regulators Regional Association). He leads the Research Unit of the Association, and is responsible of issuing ERRA research papers and coordinating technical activities of ERRA Standing Committees.

Among its last publications, Luca was awarded of the 2026 edition of ICER Distinguished Scholar Awards, category Next Practices, with the original paper:  The Impact of AI Growth on the Power System and the Role of Energy Regulators. How Balance Can Be Achieved: A Regulatory Framework Across Five Dimensions. Other papers authored by Luca are available in the section of ERRA website dedicated to Research papers.

He also frequently publishes, in Italian, on the authoritative blog rivistaenergia.it, on the newspaper Il Foglio and on the online specialized energy online journals Quotidianoenergia.it and Greenreport.it.

Until December 2024, 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) where he worked at REMIT regulation implementation.

He has coauthored a book on service quality regulation, many chapters and 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.