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The Keynote speakers were Panos M. Pardalos, Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida and Editor in chief of the Journal of Energy Systems; Richard Tol, Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Sussex and Editor in chief in Journal of Environmental Economics; Derek Bunn, Professor of Decision Sciences, Management Science and Operations at the London Business School and Editor in chief of the Journal of Energy Markets and Michael Jefferson, Affiliate Professor of Energy Policy at ESCP Business School and Editor in chief of the Journal Energy Policy.

Distinguised invited speakers were Konstantinos Ksifaras, CEO,  DESFA and Javier Suarez, Executive Director, Mediobanka Securities UK. Attendees discussed the latest on financial modelling, risk management, asset pricing, commodities modelling and regulation, and energy management. 

The conference was organised by the Technical University of Crete (Financial Engineering Laboratory), in collaboration with the EMC at ESCP Business School, under the auspices of the EWGCFM. The event took place from 22 - 24  May, 2014 at the MINOA PALACE RESORT & SPA, Chania, Crete.

Dr. Kostas Andriosopoulos, Executive Director of the EMC, Spiros Papaefthimiou, Assistant Professor, Technical University of Crete and Constantin Zopounidis, Director, Financial Engineering Laboratory and Professor, Technical University of Crete, welcomed participants and delivered the opening remarks.

The EMC is pleased to announce the following key facts of our successful event:

• Over 120 participants from the most prestigious organisations, universities and business schools of Europe and the Americas met at the conference to share their knowledge and exchange ideas.
• + 100 international presenters.
• The event offered the opportunity to visit the Manousalis Winery on 23 May.
• On 22 May, attendees benefitted from excellent networking opportunities at the Conference Dinner hosted at MINOA PALACE RESORT & SPA, Chania, Crete.
• 75 papers were carefully selected and will be published in special issues of the Journal of Energy Markets and the Energy Systems. Participants of the Confernece in Chania will also benefit from additional special issues in prominent peer-reviewed journals for submitting their work.
  

On 24 May, Dr. Kostas Andriosopoulos, Executive Director of the EMC; Rita D'Eclessia, University of Rome - La Sapienza and Chair of the EWGCFM; Spiros Papaefthimiou, Technical University of Crete, Greece and Constantin Zopounidis, Technical University of Crete thanked Keynote speakers, their fellow distinguished guests and the event's audience for sharing key insights in fascinating debates.

Pictures of the event are available here.

The EMC's mission is to build a strong proactive partnership between academia, industry and government, to debate the challenges of the new energy era.