Bram Claeys

Bram Claeys is senior advisor at RAP and coordinates RAP Europe’s power team. He is based in Brussels, Belgium. His personal focus is on market reform for the energy transition, distribution systems, and sector coupling. Before joining RAP in 2020, Claeys was the director general of the Organisation for Sustainable Energy in Belgium.

In the U.S., he served as the renewable energy deputy director for the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources. Prior roles included acting as the renewable energy advisor to the Flemish energy minister, climate and energy policy advisor for NGOs, and environmental consultancy. Claeys is a chemist by training (University of Ghent, Belgium) with additional degrees in environmental management from the University of Brussels and in international cooperation from the University of Ghent.