Luca Lo Schiavo

Luca Lo Schiavo is an energy regulation expert with nearly three decades of experience in electricity and gas market oversight, regulatory design, and enforcement. He began his career at the Italian energy regulator, ARERA, at its establishment in 1997, where he held senior roles across infrastructure regulation, market monitoring, and policy implementation. He concluded his work at ARERA at the end of 2024.

Since 2025, Luca has been working with ERRA (Energy Regulators Regional Association), an international association bringing together around 50 regulatory authorities from Europe, Africa and Asia, including Caucasus, Middle East and Gulf region. In this role, he focuses on regulatory cooperation, comparative analysis, and capacity building across diverse market contexts.

Luca’s work bridges European regulatory frameworks and national market realities, with particular attention not only to regulatory design but also to market monitoring, enforcement mechanisms, and the practical functioning of electricity markets under stress. His recent research examines differences in regulatory outcomes across countries operating within shared frameworks, as well as emerging challenges linked to system adequacy, market design, and the growing electricity demand from data centres and AI-related infrastructure.