Wolfgang Urbantschitsch

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

From 2011 until 2016, he was a Member of the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) Board of Appeal.

Before joining E-Control, Mr 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 universities and other institutions.

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