The Chair of the French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), Emmanuelle Wargon, elected Chair of the Board of Regulators of the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER)

The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) was established in 2011 and brings together all national energy regulators. It plays a key role in fostering greater integration of the European Union’s energy market, so that European businesses and citizens can benefit from affordable, secure, and decarbonized energy.

The Chair of the French Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission de Régulation de l'Energie - CRE), Emmanuelle Wargon, has been elected Chair of ACER’s Board of Regulators (BoR) at the Board meeting held today in Copenhagen. The Chair of ACER’s Board of Regulators is elected for a two-and-a-half-year term. She succeeds Clara Poletti, a member of the board of ARERA (Italy’s Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment).

Emmanuelle Wargon has been Chair of CRE since August 2022. A graduate of the École Nationale d’Administration and of HEC Paris (1992), she began her career at the French Court of Auditors. She then held several positions within the social ministries, notably heading, from 2012 onwards, the General Delegation for Employment and Vocational Training. After a long career in the public sector, Emmanuelle Wargon moved into the private sector in 2015, joining the executive team at Danone. She later served in the French governments of Édouard Philippe as Secretary of State for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, and of Jean Castex as Minister Delegate for Housing.

Emmanuelle Wargon stated: “First and foremost, I want to express my gratitude for the trust placed in me by all the national regulators in asking me to chair ACER’s Board of Regulators, which is a key body whose powers have been significantly strengthened. At a time when energy is one of the central issues at the European level, as demonstrated by the various legislative packages and reforms currently under discussion in Brussels, my role will be to ensure that ACER and the national regulators can act both as a source of proposals and as key players in shaping the upcoming transformations of the European energy system. The challenge will be to strike the right balance between a European vision and integration, and the consideration of the specific characteristics of each national context.”