Wolfgang Urbantschitsch

Wolfgang Urbantschitsch is the Executive Director of the Austrian Regulatory Authority for Energy (E-Control). Since 2013 he has been Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Energy Community. From 2001 to 2016, he was Head of the Legal Department of E-Control.

From 2011 to 2016, he was Member of the ACER Board of Appeal.

Before joining E-Control, Dr Urbantschitsch worked as a legal advisor at the Austrian Federal Constitutional Court, the Austrian Regulatory Authority for Telecommunication and as a research assistant.

Dr Urbantschitsch is the author of numerous publications on energy law as well as constitutional and administrative law. In addition, he is a lecturer at various universities and institutions.

He obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Graz, Austria.