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  • Adjunct Faculty

Anna Butenko

Titles

  • Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Scholar, Institute for Energy and the Environment

Biography

Anna Butenko is carrying out her doctoral research in energy law and economics at Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) of Tilburg University and at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on regulatory responses to innovation in the energy sector, and namely on legal framework for local energy in Europe and in the Netherlands. Butenko holds a master’s degree in law from the Universities of Tilburg and Leuven and a master’s degree in European Studies from the Universities of Groningen and Uppsala. She has developed her energy markets and regulations expertise working for the leading Dutch energy consultancy, DNV GL Oil & Gas, as a gas markets, policy, and strategy consultant for four years. Prior to joining DNV GL, Butenko worked for Gasunie, the mother-company of the Dutch gas transmission system operator, as policy and regulation analyst. She is a research fellow for the Platform on International Energy Governance, as well as board member of the Research Colloquium on Energy and Climate Governance at the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG). Butenko is a member of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), European Environmental Law Forum (EELF), and the Dutch Energy Law Association (De Nederlandse Vereniging voor Energierecht, NeVER).

Expertise

  • Energy Law and Regulation

Departments

  • Institute for Energy and the Environment
  • Summer Session

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Global Energy Law and Policy