Αυλωνίτης Γεράσιμος

Name: Avlonitis Gerasimos

 
 
Bio
Gerasimos is Senior Director on Market and System Development at the Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator (DESFA), responsible for gas market design and development projects. He also represents DESFA at the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Energy Exchange (HEnEx) and its clearing house (EnExClear).
Prior to joining DESFA in 2013, he held the position of the Head of the Gas Department in the Greek Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE, now RAEWW) since 2005, playing a key-role in the liberalization of the Greek gas market.
From 1999 until 2002, when he joined RAE, he worked in numerous gas and power projects as a member of the business development team of Prometheus Gas S.A., a joint company of Gazprom and Copelouzos Group.
He started his professional career in the upstream sector of the hydrocarbon industry in 1996. Based in the UK, he worked in numerous oil and gas production optimization projects in Europe, Middle East and Latin America.
Gerasimos has delivered seminars and training courses in gas sector organization, gas pricing and Third-Party Access tariffs in Greece, South-East Europe and the Middle East. Since 2014, he has also been adjunct professor at the Master’s program of the University of Piraeus in Energy.
He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and an MSc in Petroleum Engineering from the Imperial College, London.