Annegret Groebel

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Dr Annegret Groebel is Director of International Relations and Postal Markets Regulation at the German Regulatory Authority for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA). Dr Groebel has worked for BNetzA since 1998. Since 2024 she is a member of the Grand Ruling Chamber for Energy. She has been CEER President since January 2019 and was a Vice President of CEER (member of the Board) since 2012. She was appointed Vice-Chair of the International Confederation of Energy Regulators (ICER) in June 2020 which was confirmed for a second term in August 2023. She also has chaired the CEER Market Integrity and Transparency (MIT) Working Group since 2013. Furthermore, she is a member of the Board of Regulators of the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER). She has an excellent knowledge of the European regulatory framework for electronic communications as well as the regulatory framework for the internal energy market and the regulatory framework for the internal postal market. She is actively involved in the Independent Regulators Group (IRG) work and the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC), co-chairing the Remedies and Market Monitoring (RAMM) WG as well as the BEREC Office Advisory Group (BAG). Furthermore, she is active in the European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP), co-chairing the Task Force for the ERGP Mid Term Strategy 2026 – 2028 and in 2026 the Task Force ERGP Efficiency. She is also actively involved in IRG Rail. She has experience in advising public authorities on regulatory reform and sector-specific regulation. Finally, she is also a member of the OECD’s Network of Economic Regulators (NER) and its Bureau since its inception, a working group of the OECD looking at cross-sectoral governance issues of economic regulators. She has experience in advising public authorities on regulatory reform and sector specific regulation in numerous projects. Apart from her professional duties, she has also been lecturing for a considerable time on different subjects in economics, finance, social policy, trade policy and European Integration, as well as on the regulatory framework in the German and European telecommunications and energy markets at different universities and vocational training academies in Germany, the FSR in Italy, and Switzerland. Dr Groebel is the author of various publications in the fields of telecommunications, postal and energy regulation. Dr Groebel holds a doctorate 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.