Thierry Grauwels is the EU Director at the CCSA. Since joining Shell in 1998, Thierry has held several business and market development positions in the European energy market. He focused on the newly liberalised energy markets, negotiated long term gas and LNG supply agreements and developed several positions in LNG regasification and power projects with hydrogen – Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). He led Shell’s advocacy efforts to promote the role of gas in Europe. He unbundled the gas distribution company of Athens according to the EU requirements and framed the ownership restructuring. Thierry joined Fluxys, Belgian gas TSO and became the CFO of DESFA after the successful partial privatisation of the company by SNAM, Enagas and Fluxys in 2018.