Dr Adrien de Hauteclocque is the Head of Cabinet of the President of the General Court of the European Union and a non-governmental adviser to the French Competition Authority in the context of the International Competition Network (ICN). On the academic front, he is a Principal Adviser of the Florence School of Regulation (European University Institute) and an associated researcher at Chaire Gouvernance et Régulation, Université Paris-Dauphine. His research interests include EU competition and state aid law, competition policy in network industries and the law & economics of energy regulation. Before moving to the EU institutions, he pursued his academic career at the University of Manchester and at the European University Institute where he co-founded the “EU Energy Union Law” Area of the Florence School of Regulation. He is a regular speaker at international conferences and has published numerous books, academic articles and book chapters in the last 15 years. He serves as a member of the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) Training Advisory Board and holds regular teaching commitments for the CEER Legal Task Force and, as an invited Professor, HEC Paris (France). Dr de Hauteclocque obtained his PhD in Law from the University of Manchester (UK) and holds a MSc in Management from EM Lyon (France) and a MSc in Economic Policy from Strathclyde University (UK).