How WAREG works

President

Andrea Guerrini

Andrea Guerrini is Commissioner of ARERA, the Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment (www.arera.it), and President of WAREG, the Association of European Water Regulators (www.wareg.org).
From 2016 until his nomination in ARERA in August 2018, he was President of the Public Operator of the City of Livorno (www.asaspa.it).

Mr Guerrini is professor of Performance Management, Planning and Control in the Department of Business Economics at the University of Verona, where he has been researching and teaching water utilities and regulation. He is the author of numerous publications, including monographs and articles for international reviews. In 2014 he wrote a book on “Water management in Italy: Governance, Performance and Sustainability” and in 2018 a book on “Management of water services companies. An operational manual for management and control”.

He has been leading research projects financed by the EU, and was one of the founders of the Water Management and Technology Research Centre.

Prof. Guerrini has been drafting the tariff methodology for drinking water services for the City of Bolzano.

Vice President

Hugo Pacheco

Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Water and Waste Services Regulation Authority of Azores (ERSARA) since June of 2010.
During his mandate, Pacheco has been responsible for the entrance of ERSARA in WAREG, the development and implementation of the regulatory model for water and waste services, of the economic regulation in the WWS and urban waste sector. He also fostered the development and implementation of the model of evaluation for the quality of service between the operators and coordinated the activities of the Board of Directors and ERSARA Services.

Hugo Pacheco holds a master in Engineering and Management of Water Systems University of the Azores, and a degree in Environmental Engineering at Castelo Branco Polytechnic Institute

Vice President

Szilvia Szalóki

Szilvia Szalóki is a recognized water professional. She is a lawyer by profession and an expert in energy law. As a lawyer she gave advise to local governments in the water utility sector, and prepared them to meet the requirements of the regulations. She also participated in the review of water utility supplier companies and in development projects.

Since 2013 she is the vice-president of the Hungarian regulator. It was her responsibility to help to establish the professional supervision of the water and waste water sector in Hungary. Performing this important task she built strategic cooperation with the representatives of water and waste water sector, furthermore with other responsible agencies and institutions. Most recently she is focused on international issues and the cooperation of water regulators. She has been elected as one of the vice-presidents of WAREG in 2015 and re-elected in 2018

Vice President

Dimitar Kochkov

Dimitar Kochkov graduated University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy – Sofia in 1991 with professional qualification Master Civil Engineer in water supply and sanitation.  In 2004 he post-graduated Business Organization and Management in Academy of Economics
“D. Tsenov” – Svishtov town.

Dimitar is Member of EWRC Board (Bulgarian Energy and Water Regulatory Commission) since March 2015.  Before his nomination in EWRC, he was Member of Bulgarian Parliament, 42^nd National Assembly.

In his professional engineering career, he occupied different expert and leading positions in Bulgarian Water and Sanitation Operator Company. He an extra experience as a consultant on wastewater treatment for international water purification companies. Dimitar participated as a key expert in international infrastructure projects funded by EU. He is the designer of full design capacity in water and sanitation with participation in small and medium-scale projects. Vice-president of WAREG since October 2017.

Vice President

Ndriçim Shani

Ndriçim Shani was appointed Chair of the National Regulatory Commission of the Water Regulatory Authority in Albania in May 2016. He graduated in 1982 from the University of Tirana, Faculty of Civil Engineering Hydro technical branch. He holds a Master in “Hydrology, Water Quality Analysis and Treatment” at the University of Montpellier II, France, since 1991. He has over 34 years experience in water supply, sanitation and environment fields, as lecturer at the university and as senior project engineer.

Ndriçim Shani has an extensive experience in the private and public sector, in public policymaking at the national level, as well as planning and management projects of water supply, sanitation and environment funded by foreign donors and Albanian Government

Christian Minelli

Official at the Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment (ARERA) since 2010, where he has been developing European and International institutional relations on energy and water utility services regulation, at multilateral and bilateral level, and assisting ARERA’s Board Members. ARERA representative in the OECD Network of Economic Regulators, the International Water Association, the Council of European Energy Regulators.

Since 2014 he is the General Coordinator of WAREG the first European association of national and regional agencies responsible for economic regulation of drinking water and wastewater services. Before serving in ARERA, he was policy officer in the Cabinet of the President of the Italian Senate.

Graduated in Diplomacy and International Relations (University of Trieste), European Studies (College of Europe, Bruges), and MBA from SDA Bocconi School of Management (Milan, Italy).

Ramon Domènech Aldomà

Before joining WAREG, Ramon advised Fortune 500 companies on matters related to environment, health and safety compliance, including water, wastewater and chemicals management in the European Union and Latin America. He also carried out research and analysis on relevant regulatory developments.

Previously he has worked for NATO providing legal support in the drafting and coordination of cooperation agreements and for the Spanish law firm Roca Junyent on international projects in its Barcelona and Shanghai offices. A qualified attorney in Spain, he holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Double LLM in International Business Law and Legal Practice from the ESADE Business and Law School.

Vittorio Graziano

Vittorio Graziano joined WAREG – European Water Regulators in 2019 as Junior Water Analyst supporting the Secretariat in the organisation of the 1st edition of the European Forum on the Regulation of Water Services (EFRWS).

Since 2020 he has been managing WAREG’s external communications through the website and the social media. Vittorio holds a master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies (Cattolica University of Milan) and a bachelor’s degree in business administration and Management (Bocconi University, Milan).

Fjola Beqiri

Fjola Beqiri is graduated as a Sociologist from University of Tirana and after that she followed Law Tirana University and hold a master degree Msc. in Public Rights.

She works at Albanian Water Regulatory Authority since 2009. From the beginning she held the position of the Commission and Chairman Secretary in charge of all the administrative procedure of the institution. For almost 5 years she works as a Consumer Complaint Specialist in the Consumer and Public Sector.

She has a wide professional experience of Consumer Protection in Water Sector and she has conducted many qualifications inside and outside the country on consumer issues.