Luis Jesús Sánchez de Tembleque, Executive Secretary of ARIAE and Head of the Consumer Protection Department of the CNMC, Spain

He is Executive Secretary of the Ibero-American Association of Energy Regulatory Entities (ARIAE), an association that brings together 25 institutions from 20 Ibero-American countries. He is also head of the Consumer Protection Department of the National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC), the Spanish multi-sector regulator.

He has extensive experience in energy regulation. He has been Director of Electric Power and Deputy Director of Special Regimes at the National Energy Commission (CNE), Spain’s former energy regulator. He has also been President of the Renewable Energy Working Group of the Association of Energy Regulators of the Mediterranean (RES WG MEDREG), co-president of the Consumer Working Group of the same association, and member of the Technical Committee of the Council of Regulators of the Iberian Electricity Market (MIBEL).

He participates as a professor in some Master’s degrees and has published articles related to the regulation of the energy sector.

He is a Mining Engineer, with a specialization in Energy and Fuels, at the Polytechnic University of Madrid.