RESET Network advisory group
Experienced experts supporting our vision
The RESET Network’s Advisory Group provides support with strategic planning and implementation. It does not have decision-making authority. Some Advisory Group members are directly involved in Network activities while others are external to the Network but bring relevant expertise. Advisory Group members are champions of the Network, boosting its reach and credibility.
Advisory group members:
Alejandro HernandezDirector, Energy Systems Innovation Program, Regulatory Assistance Project
Alejandro Hernandez
Director, Energy Systems Innovation Program, Regulatory Assistance ProjectAlejandro Hernandez oversees RAP’s Energy Systems Innovation program – a global resource designed to support regulators and partners outside RAP’s core regions.
Before joining RAP in 2022, Hernandez was the head of the Renewable Integration and Secure Electricity Unit at the International Energy Agency, leading the agency’s work on electricity market design, decarbonization strategies for the power sector and electricity security. A significant part of this work was to provide sound analysis and advice to policymakers in IEA association countries, including Brazil, China, Thailand and India.
Previously, Alejandro Hernandez served in the Mexican government from 2013 to 2017 as managing director at the Energy Ministry, where he was part of the core team designing and implementing an ambitious reform for the power sector. The effort resulted in the opening of the Mexican wholesale electricity market and in a significant deployment of renewable energy in the country.
Hernandez’s career in the Mexican government also included positions as senior advisor to the finance vice minister from 2011 to 2013 and as deputy chief economist at the Mexican antitrust authority, COFECE, from 2007 to 2011.
He holds a master’s and a doctorate in economics from Toulouse School of Economics in France and a bachelor’s degree, also in economics, from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.
A native of Mexico, Alejandro Hernandez speaks fluent Spanish, English and French.
Matías Negrete PinceticMember's Representatative Matías Negrete Pincetic
Member's RepresentatativeMatías Negrete Pincetic is Associate Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a Postdoctoral Associate at UC Berkeley. His work focuses on electricity market design and regulatory reform in the context of the energy transition.
He is Founder and Director of Vinken, advising governments, regulators, and industry leaders on market reform and institutional design in the energy sector.
Shreekant GuptaProfessor Emeritus of Economics, Delhi Technological University Shreekant Gupta
Professor Emeritus of Economics, Delhi Technological UniversityShreekant Gupta is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Delhi Technological University and Visiting Senior Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress (formerly Brookings India). His previous positions include Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi; Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs, and Fellow and Head, Environmental Policy Cell, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. He has over 30 years of policy and academic experience in environmental issues including climate change.Professor Gupta was an author of the 5th and 6th Assessment Reports of IPCC and serves as an editor of Climatic Change (Springer). He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland and a Masters from the Delhi School of Economics. He was Fulbright Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Shastri Fellow at Queens University, Canada.
Duan MaoshengDirector, China Carbon Market Research Center Duan Maosheng
Director, China Carbon Market Research CenterProfessor Duan Maosheng is the director of China Carbon Market Research Center and deputy director of Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He has bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering and economics, and master’s and doctor’s degrees in management.He has specialized in research related to climate governance, carbon market and carbon tax since 2000. He has been a member of the Chinese climate delegation since 2001 and was a member/alternate of the Kyoto Protocol’s Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee or of the Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board between 2006 and 2020. He has been intensively involved in the design of China’s domestic carbon market.He has served as a member of various committees including the World Bank’s High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices, and is one of the editors of the World Bank/ICAP Handbook on ETS. He was a lead author of the IPCC’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment Report. He has published articles on various journals such as Science, Ecological Economics, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Climate Policy, iScience and Applied Energy.
Angela Churie KallhaugeExecutive Vice President, Impact; Environmental Defense Fund Angela Churie Kallhauge
Executive Vice President, Impact; Environmental Defense FundAngela Churie Kallhauge is the Executive Vice President, Impact at Environmental Defense Fund.She joined EDF from the World Bank where she served as the head of the Secretariat of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) for five years. Before that she was at the Swedish Energy Agency where she worked for 14 years on climate change, energy and development issues. During her time at the Swedish Energy Agency, she worked on carbon market development issues, including portfolio development and capacity building in developing countries. She also served as the EU lead negotiator on adaptation and resilience issues under the UNFCCC for close to a decade and represented Sweden in the Adaptation Fund Board where she led the work on accreditation for direct access. Prior to her engagement at the Swedish Agency, Angela spent close to a decade working at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and in Zimbabwe and Kenya with civil society organizations on climate, energy and development policy.Angela also draws experience from the International Renewable Energy Agency, where she spent a couple of years leading the work to develop a climate change work program that places renewable energy action as a key part of climate change strategies.
Professor Juan Pablo MonteroProfessor of Economics, PUC-Chile Professor Juan Pablo Montero
Professor of Economics, PUC-ChileJuan-Pablo Montero is Professor of Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC-Chile), Distinguished Visiting Professor at Aalto University’s Business School, and Research Associate at MIT’s CEEPR. He has held visiting positions at the MIT’s Sloan School of Management, the Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Stanford’s CLAS and Economics. He received Bachelor and M.Sc. degrees in Civil Engineering from PUC-Chile and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from MIT.
His research work concentrates on industrial organization, environmental and energy economics and has appeared, among others, in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies. He is co-author of Markets for Clean Air of Cambridge University Press (joint with Ellerman, Joskow and Schmalensee of MIT). He has been associate editor and in the editorial board of several journals. He has also been a consultant for the Government of Chile, private corporations, and international organizations in topics of competition policy and environmental regulation.
In 2007 he was awarded Chilean Economist of the Year by “El Mercurio”, main local newspaper, and in 2019 was named Fellow of the Econometric Society.
