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Annegret Groebel is Director of International Relations at the German Regulatory Authority for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA). Dr Groebel has worked for BNetzA since 1998.

She is CEER President since January 2019 and served as CEER Vice President between 2012 and 2019. She also co-chairs the CEER Market Integration and Transparency (MIT) Working Group since 2013. She is a member of the Board of Regulators of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER).

Dr Groebel holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Mannheim, a M.A. (Master of European Administrative Management) from FH Bund (Bruehl) and a Diploma in Economics from the University of Heidelberg. She has excellent knowledge of the European regulatory framework for electronic communications as well as for the internal energy market. She has experience in advising public authorities on regulatory reform and sector-specific regulation and is actively involved in the work of the European Regulators Group (ERG) and of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC).

In addition to her professional duties, she has been giving lectures for many years on different subjects in economics, finance, social policy, trade policy and European Integration, as well as on regulatory frameworks in the German and European telecommunications and energy markets at different universities and vocational training academies in Germany, Italy and Switzerland. Dr Groebel is the author of various publications in the field of telecommunications and energy regulation.