Ulrik Stridbaek

Senior Policy Advisor,
International Energy Agency, Paris

Ulrik Stridbaek has worked as a Senior Policy Advisor, Electricity Markets at the IEA since April 2004 focusing on policy issues in market reform, investments and nuclear power. Most recent publication is the IEA book on Lessons from Liberalised Electricity Markets from December 2005.

Previously he worked for 6 years at the Danish Transmission System Operator, Eltra. Main areas of work were the opening of the Danish electricity market, integration of western Denmark into the power exchange Nord Pool, market surveillance, implementation of a market for ancillary services, and development of a market for renewables certificates. He has also experience with development economics and from the trade delegation at the Royal Danish Embassy in Warsaw.

Ulrik Stridbaek holds an MSc in Economics from Universtity of Aarhus, Denmark, and Universidad de Barcelona, Spain.