OPENING SESSION

Commissioner Kadri Simson officially opens the 16^th edition of the European Sustainable Energy Week. The Opening Ceremony features high-level speakers who are actors in the energy transition, being from EU institutions as well as the private sector and public administration.

SPEAKERS

• Ursula von der Leyen
  President of the European Commission

• Kadri Simson
  European Commissioner for Energy

• Jernej Vrtovec
  Minister of Infrastructure
  Slovenian Presidency of the Council

• Niels Fuglsang
  Member of the European Parliament
  Rapporteur for the Energy Efficiency Directive review

• Christophe Hutin
  Architect
  Award of the 2019 EU Prize for contemporary architecture

• Jürgen Rigterink
  First Vice-President
  European Bank for Reconstruction and Development