Annegret Groebel is a Director of International Relations/Postal Regulation at the German Regulatory Authority for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA). Annegret has worked for BNetzA since 1998. She has been the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) President since January 2019 and was a Vice-President of CEER as of 2012. She was appointed Vice-Chair of the International Confederation of Energy Regulators in June 2020. She has also chaired the CEER Market Integrity and Transparency Working Group (WG) since 2013. She is a member of the Board of Regulators of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators. She has excellent knowledge of the European regulatory framework for electronic communications as well as the regulatory framework for the internal energy market and is actively involved in the work of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC). Since 2020 Annegret has been Chair of the Agency for Support for BEREC Advisory Group and has been Co-Chair of the Remedies WG for many years. She is actively involved in the work of the European Regulators Group for Postal Services and the Independent Regulators’ Group – Rail. She is also a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECDs) Network of Economic Regulators and its Bureau, 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, Annegret has also been lecturing for a considerable time on various subjects in the fields of 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 a variety of universities and vocational training academies in Germany, the Florence School of Regulation in Italy, and in Switzerland. Annegret Groebel is the author of various publications in the field of telecommunications and energy regulation.

Annegret Groebel has a doctoral degree in Economics from the University of Mannheim, a Master of Arts (Master of European Administrative Management) from FH Bund (Bruehl) and a Diploma in Economics from the University of Heidelberg.