Nektaria Karakatsani is a member of the Board of the Greek energy regulator (RAE), CEER and ACER Board of Regulators. She has represented RAE in the collaboration with the European Commission regarding the implementation of key reforms. She holds a PhD in Energy Economics from London Business School and an MSc from Oxford University. She has worked as an energy consultant in the British market and an advisor on regulatory reforms for UK institutions. Her work has mainly focused on the econometric modelling of electricity prices in the context of risk management, the impact assessment of regulatory changes and behavioural finance issues.  She joined RAE in 2008 as a specialized market analyst, developing market monitoring tools and market codes. 

She has published her research in influential journals, including Energy Economics, Journal of Forecasting, Oxford Handbook of Economic Forecasting and Journal of Non-linear Dynamics and Econometrics. 

She has been teaching forecasting, business statistics and econometrics at LBS, LSE and City University.  Over the last two years, she has written more than 30 articles, so as to raise public awareness on energy reforms, the clean energy transition, consumers' rights and clean islands.