Speaking & Moderating with Marine Cornelis

One of Europe’s most compelling voices on energy justice, consumer empowerment, and inclusive transition.

Whether you need a keynote that sparks insight, a moderator who asks the right questions, or a facilitator who connects the dots between policy, people and impact, Marine brings over 15 years of experience in energising rooms, building bridges, and driving the conversation forward.

Fluent in English, French, Italian, and Spanish, she has spoken at over 150 international events across five continents.

🌍 Energy Justice & the Social Contract

🔐 Trust, Governance & Citizen Agency

🏠 Summer Energy Poverty & Resilience

⚖️ Feminist & Intersectional Energy Policy

⚡ Demand-Side Flexibility for All

🔎 Communicating Complexity with Purpose

How to rewire power and fairness in the climate transition

Why trust is not a buzzword, but infrastructure

From cooling to care: addressing inequality under heat

Gender, race, and rethinking decision-making in transition

Making innovation equitable and participatory

Translating policy into meaning and action

Signature Engagements

🎤 Headline Keynotes & Signature Moments

IXL Centre / Global Innovation Institute (June 2025)
“Reclaiming Trust: Why Social Sciences Matter More Than Ever in the Energy Transition”
→ A masterclass in weaving purpose, policy, and participation.

CTE Next, Turin (July 2024)
“5G & Emerging Tech for a Net-Zero City”
→ Closing keynote to city leaders, startups and institutions on reimagining public trust in digital infrastructures.

Foro Español de Energía Limpia (Jan 2023)
→ Keynote on energy poverty, climate justice, and the European agenda.

Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (Oct 2022)
→ Challenging city leaders to integrate equity into climate neutrality.

Falck Renewables (Sept 2022)
“What is Sustainability—and What Can You Do About It?”
→ A company-wide intervention blending insight and team activation.

🎯 Moderator & Panel Leader — Master of Constructive Tension

ENLIT Europe (2021–2024)
From “COVID & Changing Customer Behaviour” to “Women in Energy” and “Energy Poverty: How Suppliers Can Help”—Marine has chaired and moderated the rooms where European energy strategy meets public accountability.

European Sustainable Energy Week (2025)
Three major sessions, one message: citizens at the heart of the transition.
→ Moderated panels on affordability, consumer needs, and community energy.

Euroheat & Power Congress, CEDEC, EESC, EU Fire Safety Week, FSR…
→ Marine is the go-to moderator for turning multi-stakeholder dialogues into momentum.

🧭 From Brussels to Ouagadougou: A Global, Intersectional Lens

Marine’s work spans the globe, with a strong track record in cooperation with the Global South. She brings grounded insights on justice, participation, and capacity-building in energy access.

Highlights:

Electrification for Social Impact, IFDD/EURICA (Madagascar & Burkina Faso)
Ombudsman Energia Mexico — A trusted voice on consumer rights across Latin America
International Energy Poverty Action Week — Founder and convener of the first truly global action week on the topic

✊ Gender, Justice, and Voice

Marine brings a feminist and intersectional approach to energy and sustainability.

Lecturer, “Genre et énergie”, Kinshasa, July 2025
Speaker, World Bank Innovate4Climate
Moderator, ENLIT Europe, Women in Energy
Speaker, ASSET: Girls Power, March 2021

Her message is clear: we cannot transition fairly if we do not hear from those most affected.

🧠 Courses & Capacity-Building

Marine’s knowledge travels well. She is a respected trainer and educator:

Florence School of Regulation
EOI International Master on Sustainability
Turin International School on Consumer Rights
CIFE: Good Lobbying, Lobbying for Good
Arava Institute: Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Talks & Moderations

Sustainable businesses democratising the energy sector

Keynote Speaker, IXL Center-Global Innovation Management Institute: Reclaiming Trust: Why Social Sciences Matter More Than Ever in the Energy Transition, June 2025
Speaker, The Baltic Grids Disconnect From Russia: From BRELL to ELL….Why, When, How?, E-World, February 2025
Moderator, ENLIT, Building Trust in the Energy Sector, October 2024
Keynote Speaker, Demo Day di chiusura del Programma di Accelerazione “5G & Emerging Tech per la Città a Zero Emissioni”, CTE Next, July 2024
Speaker, CAPTUS Dissemination event: Unlocking carbon capture technology for an eco-industrial evolution, June 2024
Speaker, Belgian Energy Transition Congress, December 2023
Speaker, CEDEC, The big electrification shift – Building a bottom-up approach
Organiser and Speaker, IFDD/EURICA: Innovation Digitale pour un Avenir Électrique : L’Électrification Améliorée à Madagascar et au Burkina Faso, July 2023
Speaker, Comunità energetiche e rinnovabili: nuove opportunità per gli enti locali, Koala, June 2023
Moderator, Euroheat & Power Congress, May 2023
Keynote speaker, Energy Communities Workshop (“IlMondoÈTuttoAttaccato”), CasaComune, 18 March 2023
Enlit Europe Impact Circle 2023 Meeting, February 2023
Keynote Speaker, Foro Espanol de Energia Limpia, January 2023
Chair of the Democratisation Hub, ENLIT Europe, November 2022
Keynote Speaker / Team building intervention, What is Sustainability? and What can you do about it?, Falck Renewables, September 2022
Speaker, SGEM WIEN, December 2021
Moderator, ENLIT Europe, COVID & Changing Customer Behaviour, November 2021
Speaker, EURELECTRIC, Power2People, November 2021
Speaker, BPIE, US-EU exchange: How to achieve energy-efficient and affordable housing, September 2021
Speaker, Supergen Energy Networks project “Digital Inclusion in the Future Energy System”, May 2021
Speaker, Eurofuel Future of Liquid Heating Fuels: Putting the Pieces Together, May 2021
Moderator, Euroheat & Power Congress: “Enthusiastic Fans – Engaged Citizens as Key to Success”, May 2021
Moderator, Enlit Europe: Energy Poverty (Part 2): Role of Energy Efficiency & Renovation, October 2020
Speaker, Enlit Europe: Energy Poverty (Part 1): The Question of Energy Affordability, October 2020
Moderator, Vattenfall Electrification and the Role of consumers, Brussels, November 2019

Designing people-centred energy policies

Speaker, FSR Panel Debate: Social Implications of a Clean Molecule Economy, June 2025
Speaker, IAI Workshop “Energy, Migration, Defence: Policies and Politics in the 2024-2029 European Parliament, November 2024
Speaker, Strengthening participation in Europe’s energy transition, Green European Foundation/Heinrich Boll Institute, November 2024
Speaker, Debating Europe, EU’s Road to Fair Climate Adaptation: Citizen Voices and Local Impact, November 2024
Speaker, EESC TEN/837 The future of the supply and pricing of electricity in the EU, 18 July 2024
Moderator, Sun4All, Acting locally for a fair and inclusive European Green Deal, June 2024
Panelist, ComACT H2020 Final conference, January 2024
Panelist, Belgian Renovation Week PANEL F: How to mobilize citizens and local actors to foster collective projects, Brussels, January 2024
Panelist, COP28 side event: Les Compétences Francophones dans les Energies Renouvelables, IFDD/Région Wallonne, Dubai, December 2023
Panelist, FSR Panel debate on “empowering consumers to support decarbonisation of the gas sector”, FSR Course Clean Molecules for the Energy Transition, June 2023
Expert, EESC TEN/801 – Individual and collective energy self-consumption as a factor in the fight for the green and energy transition, and for economic and social balance, June 2023
Speaker, CEER Customer Conference 2023: Avenues for the Green and Digital Transition: Enabling energy consumers as agents and beneficiaries, May 2023
Organiser, Table-Ronde Internationale des Acteurs de l’Energie (International Energy Player’s Roundtable), EURICA/JAE, Ouagadougou, March 2023
Keynote Speaker, Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, October 2022
Speaker A conti fatti – Via Col Voto, Fondazione Feltrinelli, 21 September 2022
Expert, Greens/EFA discussion on energy prices, September 2022
Panel leader and Moderator, ECEEE Summer Study: Panel 3. Policy, finance and governance, June 2022
Speaker, European Climate Foundation – Florence School of Regulation joint research project, 9 May 2022
Citizen Panelist, Debating Europe, How can Europe ensure a fair transition to clean energy? October 2021
Speaker, ENSMOV Webinar, The EU Commission’s new proposals for the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) energy savings obligation, September 2021
Panel leader and Moderator, ECEEE Summer Study: Panel 3. Policy, finance and governance, June 2021
Speaker, Demokratie Café Reutlingen: Session II: Is science crucial for serving as a Catalyst for shaping policies, March 2021
Moderator, College of Europe (Natolin) conference “Shining a Light on Energy: 10 Years of the LisbonTreaty” – session on the Just Transition, June 2020
Speaker, YES-Europe Climathon 2020, Expert Keynote, May 2020
Speaker, Médiateur National de l’Energie, Deux ans de la Médiation de la Consommation, Paris, January 2018
Keynote speaker on Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Ukrainian Parliament, Kiev, December 2017
Speaker, I-COM, VERSO L’ISOLA DEL TESORO. Le rotte dei consumatori tra protezione e mercato e la mappa della regolazione, Rome, December 2017
Speaker, CERRE Workshop, energy efficiency, Brussels, November 2017
Speaker, Croatian Chamber of Industry, Ombudsmen in the Energy Sector, Zagreb, October 2017
Speaker, Public Policy Exchange, Energy Poverty, Brussels, September 2017

Protecting and empowering consumers in time of uncertainty: ombudsmen, out-of-court dispute resolution, and mediation

Speaker, Oxford University ADR Congress, November 2022
Keynote Speaker, MEDREG Consumer Protection Working Group, October 2022
Speaker, Webinar “Facilitating Sustainability via Consumers: The Perspective of Energy Law”, University of Groningen, June 2022
Speaker, BEUC expert meeting on ADR, 31 May 2022
Speaker, Ombudsman Energia Mexico: Madagascar: la experiencia del consumidor de energía, 26 May 2022
Speaker, ENGAGER Final Conference, 12 April 2022
Speaker, Consumidores Energéticos: El Caso de Burkina Faso, Ombudsman Energia Mexico, 17 March 2022
Guest, The Europeans Podcast: Energy Bills, bills, bills, 20 January 2022
Speaker, European Commission’s Citizens’ Energy Forum, December 2021
Speaker and moderator at the ESRC Just Energy final conference: Become an ally to overcome vulnerability, September 2021
Speaker, Ombudsman Energia Mexico, El estatus actual de los derechos del consumidor final en materia energética, April 2021
Speaker and moderator at the ESRC Just Energy webinar “Access to justice and energy poverty: joining up the gaps”, October 2020
Mexican Energy and Society Week (Semana de la energia e sociedad), special guest of the Ombudsman Energia Mexico, Mexico City, October 2019
Speaker, ENABLE.EU’s workshop on citizens and the energy transition, Paris, June 2019
Speaker, ENABLE.EU’s workshop on citizens and the energy transition, Paris, June 2019
Speaker, University of Camerino, Cassini Prize, Cagliari, May 2019

Building energy justice and addressing energy poverty

Speaker, Energy Poverty Advisory Hub, Cool Solutions for Hot Regions: Addressing Summer Energy Poverty through Data and Action, July 2025
Speaker, BEUC Expert Group “What consumers pay for the electricity grid”, June 2025
Speaker, Consumers International Expert Group on Consumers in the Energy System, June 2025
Moderator, POWER UP Capacity-building webinar: Empowerment through co-design, June 2025
Moderator, EUSEW 2025: Affordable and energy-efficient homes for all: breaking barriers to affordable energy retrofits for vulnerable households, June 2025
Moderator, EUSEW 2025: Energy for citizens: understanding what consumers truly need, June 2025
Moderator, EUSEW2025: Unlocking the potential of energy communities to empower citizens for an inclusive transition, June 2025
Moderator, POWER UP: More than renewables. The social impact of energy sharing, May 2025
Speaker, CAN Europe Strategic session on climate resilient buildings and sustainable cooling work within our Built Environment, April 2025
Speaker, Right2Energy Coalition: Summer Energy poverty, April 2025
Speaker, UNECE Energy Efficiency Bi-monthly open discussion forum: Approaches to improving energy efficiency in buildings: triggering investment, scaling financing, maintaining affordability (Summer Energy poverty), April 2025
Speaker, EU Fire Safety Week, Panel on the Energy Performance of Buildings (EPBD), 19 November 2024
Speaker, Florence School of Regulation, Clean molecules for the energy transition, June 2024
Moderator, SCEPA: Citizens Energy Communities, Inclusive and Solidary Tools against Energy Poverty, April 2024
Chair, ENLIT Europe, Energy poverty: How suppliers can help vulnerable customers, November 2023
Moderator and organiser, PEnTrEn/ Rete ASSIST, Comunità Energetiche ed Energy Sharing: Svelare un Potenziale Sociale Inesplorato, September 2023
Speaker, Oeko Institute Symposium “Tackling rising energy costs: the role of climate policy in supporting vulnerable groups”, March 2023
Keynote speaker, European Poverty Advisory Hub EPAH lunch talk#5 – The need to have a multi-actor approach to address energy poverty, 14 March 2023
Organiser, International Energy Poverty Action Week 2023
Green Economy Coalition, Re-negotiate: A new social contract in an age of crises, January 2023
Speaker, EU Fire Safety Week, November 2022
Keynote Speaker, EURAC SPPCR Conference, July 2022
Speaker, Legambiente, presentazione del Rapporto di Civico 5.0, 17 May 2022
Organiser and Moderator, International Energy Poverty Action Week: Day 5, Africa, 21-25 February 2022
Speaker, Arava Institute for Environmental Studies and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Israel: Cross-Border Perspectives: Energy Poverty and Climate Change In the Middle East, ‎קיבוץ קטורה – Kibbutz Ketura, 9-10 February 2022‎
Moderator, 1st ComAct Knowledge Transfer Webinar: Triggering communities to become fit for 55 Tackling energy poverty in East-Central Europe, December 2021
Moderator, Copper Alliance, Energy and mobility poverty: Will the social climate fund be enough to deliver on basic services? November 2021
Speaker, ADEME Energy Poverty Workshop, September 2021
Moderator, ENGAGER Energy Rights Forum, March 2021
Speaker, Making Decarbonisation Fair Day 3 Panel 4: Working with communities and vulnerable people, March 2021
Speaker, ENPOR’s first Expert Talk – Energy Poverty in the Private Rented Sector, February 2021
Speaker, Italian Energy Poverty Observatory Report Launch, December 2020
Speaker at the 2020 European Sustainable Energy Week session “Decisive action on energy poverty: solutions from across the EU“, organised by DG Energy and the EU Energy Poverty Observatory, June 2020
Speaker, Housing Solutions Platform, Addressing Energy Poverty in the Climate Transition: Risks and Opportunities for a Renovation Wave, May 2020
Speaker, Webinar Assist2Gether, Webinar técnico: gestión de la pobreza energética en tiempos de pandemia, April 2020
Speaker, Workshop “Right to Energy: from Policy to Practice”, University of Groningen/COST ENGAGER, Groningen, January 2020
Speaker, Conseil Français de l’Energie (WEC), Le numérique pour réduire la précarité énergétique : mythe ou réalité ?, Paris, July 2019
Speaker, Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable (IFDD), Droit à l’énergie : du cadre juridique à son application concrète, May 2019
Speaker, ECEEE / Agence Française de développement / ADEME, Energy sufficiency – Future reality accepted or suffered: The view point of stakeholders, Paris, May 2019
Speaker, NégaWatt, Transition énergétique, fiscalité et justice sociale: table ronde Vulnérabilité et précarité énergétique, Paris, April 2019
Speaker, AdiConsum/CanaleEnergia – Camera dei Deputati, Luce sulla povertà energetica, Rome, March 2019
Speaker, Alliance against Energy Poverty, Second Catalan Energy Poverty Congress, Barcelona, November 2018
Speaker, Energy Poverty Observatory launch event, Brussels, January 201

Gender and inclusivity

Lecturer “Genre et énergie comprendre les enjeux, amplifier les voix”, Programme de renforcement des capacités en RDC, July 2025
Moderator, ENLIT, Women in Energy, October 2024
Speaker, Genesys/LEAP-RE: Integrating research evidence on gender-energy nexus to achieve just and equitable outcomes in the African / European energy transition efforts, June 2024
Speaker, World Bank – Innovate 4 Climate Parallel Event: Women’s Empowerment in the Energy Transition: Using Human Rights as a Compass, 26 May 2022
Speaker, Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli: Transition Summit, September 2021
Speaker, ASSET: GIRLS POWER: the role of women in the energy transition, March 2021

Courses & Trainings

Energy systems

Florence School of Regulation: Course Who Pays for the Grid? Fairness, Flexibility, and the Future of Electricity Grid Tariffs Energy markets and regulation
LEAP-RE RES School, Demand-Side Flexibility: what does it mean for consumers? Pretoria, South Africa, October 2022
Turin International School, Energy consumer rights course, Turin (ongoing since 2018)

Sustainable finance

ARAVA Institute Water-Energy-Food Nexus – Empowering Sustainable Futures: Unlocking Renewable Energy Finance, July 2023

Energy poverty and Just transition

Florence School of Regulation: What does Net Zero mean for homes that cannot cope?
Course about Getting to Net Zero

EOI International Master in Sustainable Development and Corporate Responsibility: Course on Energy poverty in industrialised countries (ongoing since 2021)
University of Turin (UNITO) Green Economy Course: Energy Poverty and the Just Transition, May 2022
College of Europe, Bruges, Social aspects of the energy transition course, July 2019

Public affairs

CIFE Master in Advanced European and International Studies: Good Lobbying, Lobbying for Good: a toolbox (ongoing since 2021)

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