Christophe Druet

Deputy Head of Section in charge of… Shift in duties. More info coming soon!

In charge of the team managing the data collection for the European studies and of establishing a vision for the future of data management and simulations at pan-European level.

Created and launched the business after experimenting for a few months Developed R&D project with ULg and obtained funding Follows very early-stage startups (= before incorporation) Actively involved in the development of one incorporated start-up

Coached the team to help them become entrepreneurs Joined this team to create and launch the business Managing the business

Created and launched the business with one co-founder Actively managing one prototyping project as a project manager Delivering energy expertise in the field of urban agriculture Developing Urban Agriculture devices and services

Led the process that produced the first joint Innovation & Knowledge Strategy for both Elia Transmission and 50Hertz Transmission. Obtained FP7 grants for ITESLA, ESTORAGE and EHIGHWAY2050.

Led NETFLEX (in FP7 TWENTIES) to successfully demonstrate how to increase transmission capacities by 10% by using Real Time Thermal Rating technologies and Phase-Shifting technologies.

Led and coached team members including newbies to double the size of the team in order to improve grid expansion studies quality and speed up delivery (95% on time). Developed and assessed the Flow-Based Market Coupling approach, which has been approved in 2007 and which will increase the social welfare in CWE by 5-10%.

Led and coached a team made of 6 engineering master's graduates in charge of grid expansion studies, day-ahead operational planning and ancillary services. Increased grid expansion studies quality and delivery (95% on time) by defining and implementing a new process, and restructuring the team.

Performed grid expansion studies for Wallonia, among which a probabilistic study with RTE (the French transmission system operator) that led to reinforce the border Belgium-France and increase the transmission capacity by 10%.

Developed and experimented a probabilistic grid expansion approach with the University of Liege, which increases the utilisation of the grid w/o increasing the risk. Experimented a deterministic grid expansion method with Frontier Economics Ltd and Consentec Gmbh that links grid congestions with financial results.

- Core courses: Corporate Finance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Managerial Statistics, Decision and Risk Analysis, Developing Effective Managers and Organisations, Developing Entrepreneurial Opportunities, Financial Accounting, Introduction to Management Accounting, Leadership Skills, Managerial Economics, Marketing, Operations Management, Strategic Management, Understanding General Management, Understanding the International Macroeconomy - Electives: Capitals Market & Financing, Achieving Strategic Agility, Marketing Strategy, Paths to Power, Crafting the Future of Work, Negotiation & Bargaining, New Venture Development, Project Finance, Mergers Acquisitions & Alliances - Management report (graduation thesis): Elia Strategic Agility, supervised by Julian Birkinshaw and Hubert Lemmens

- graduation thesis on transient stability applied to the Hydro-Québec electrical power system - specialized in power systems and data mining techniques applied to power systems - strong background in IT (Unix, Linux, Pascal, MIT Scheme, LISP, Fortran77, C, C++, Perl, ObjectStore and LaTeX)