Speaking & Moderation
Public debates in the energy transition often fail for the same reason as policies:
too much consensus, not enough scrutiny.
Marine Cornelis intervenes as a speaker and moderator in settings where discussions shape decisions, funding priorities, and regulatory direction. Her role is not to animate panels, but to surface blind spots, reframe debates, and connect technical choices to their social and political consequences.
What this work is used for
Reframing policy and market debates when positions are hardening
Making social and consumer risks visible in technical or economic discussions
Stress-testing dominant narratives before they become policy orthodoxy
Bridging regulatory, industry, and lived-experience perspectives
Restoring analytical clarity in polarised or over-simplified debates
How it works
Speaking and moderation are treated as strategic moments, not communication exercises.
Interventions are designed around:
the decision context of the room,
the tensions that are being avoided,
and the risks that remain unspoken.
Marine is typically invited when organisers need someone who can hold complexity, challenge assumptions without derailing discussion, and keep legitimacy, trust, and fairness firmly on the table.
Selected interventions
Consumer trust and vulnerability in EU energy policy
In policy forums convened by BEUC, speaking and moderation roles have focused on vulnerability, affordability, and the limits of consumer choice in current market designs, particularly around heat pump deployment and electrification strategies.
Social Climate Fund and summer energy poverty
At events organised by European Commission Directorate-General for Climate Action and EU Climate Pact platforms, interventions helped reframe climate and social policy discussions by linking heat, housing, and vulnerability, challenging winter-centric assumptions in EU energy poverty policy.
Customer engagement, trust, and market legitimacy
In industry-facing settings such as LCP Delta summits, speaking roles have focused on the growing gap between customer engagement narratives and the lived realities of households, highlighting how trust failures emerge when markets scale faster than protection mechanisms.
Reframing industry and policy debates
Keynote interventions for think tanks and expert fora, including GIMI Think Tank, have centred on legitimacy, governance, and the political economy of the energy transition, bringing social risk and public acceptance into conversations often dominated by cost and efficiency metrics.
When organisations invite this work
When debates risk becoming technically correct but socially fragile
When organisers need someone who can hold tension rather than smooth it over
When legitimacy, trust, or fairness are central but insufficiently addressed
When the room includes policymakers, regulators, industry, and civil society
This is not motivational speaking.
It is strategic intervention in spaces where narratives shape outcomes.
