Governing Bodies
General Assembly & Executive Board
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Liam NOLAN
President
Liam Nolan is the President of MARCOGAZ since 14 of June 2022, after holding the office of Vice-President since 2020. He is Head of Technical Competency & Standards at Gas Networks Ireland, which owns, operates and develops the national gas infrastructure in Ireland.
Liam Nolan is the Chair of the Gas Central Committee of the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI), responsible for overseeing the national gas infrastructure and gas utilisation standardisation committees covering natural gas, renewable gas and hydrogen. He is also board member of the Register of Gas Installers of Ireland (RGII) and the Chair of the Pipeline Industries Guild, Irish Branch. He represents Ireland on the International Gas Union (IGU) Council.
A Mechanical Engineer, Liam Nolan has 30 years’ experience in the gas sector and has worked in many areas including gas distribution, network design, construction, operations, market opening and health & safety.
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Alexander SCHWANZER
Vice President
Alexander Schwanzer, Member of the MARCOGAZ Board since 2008, and Vice-President of MARCOGAZ since June 2022.
In Austria, he is head of the Certification Body at the Austrian Association for Gas and Water (ÖVGW), for products, people and companies in the gas, water, and electricity sector, as well as the representative for European Gas Affairs.
Active in the industry for more than 25 years, Alexander Schwanzer is an experienced strategist with an extensive network and wide-ranging expertise in the gas and water sector.
He serves on several Standing Committees and Working Groups at the ÖVGW, Austrian Standards, CEN, and MARCOGAZ.
Alexander Schwanzer also organized the MARCOGAZ EGATEC 2015 in Vienna.
His education includes a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Building Technology and Supply Business.
“As a technical organization serving the European gas industry, MARCOGAZ supports the necessary diversification and decarbonisation of Europe’s energy supply. It is a special honour for me to have been tasked with accompanying this process over the coming years”, stated Alexander Schwanzer.
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Manuel COXE
Secretary General
Manuel Coxe is the Secretary General of MARCOGAZ, where he works very closely with the President, the Vice-President and the Executive Board members while managing a small-sized secretariat.
With more than 20 years of professional experience in the energy sector, Manuel Coxe held different technical and management positions before joining MARCOGAZ. Manuel worked for European associations and intergovernmental organisations, power utility companies and academia, spanning different countries, including Portugal, Germany, United Arab Emirates and Belgium.
Power and gas systems management, energy policy and energy markets are among his interests and expertise.
His education background includes Energy Systems Engineering, Economics and Business Administration, Management Law and Communication, obtained, respectively, from the Universities of Lisbon, in Portugal, Durham, in the UK, Université Libre de Bruxelles, in Belgium, Harvard in the USA and Western Ontario in Canada.
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Stefano CAGNOLI
Comitato Italiano Gas (Italy)
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Thierry CHAPUIS
French Gas Association (France)
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Ioannis CHOMATAS
DESFA (Greece)
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Anne-Sophie DECAUX
Chair of Standing Committee Gas Infrastructure
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Francisco DE LA FLOR
Enagas (Spain)
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Kris DE WIT
Chair of Standing Committee Gas Utilisation
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Sylwia GLADYSZ
Polska Spółka Gazownictwa (Poland)
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Frank GRAF
Chairman of Standing Committee New Gases
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Antony GREEN
National Grid (UK)
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Mattias HANSON
Swedish Gas Association (Sweden)
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Robert JUDD
GERG (Belgium)
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Stanislav KAZDA
Regional Gas Company (Ukraine)
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Arto KORPELA
Gasgrid (Finland)
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Elzbieta KRAMEK
Gaz-System (Poland)
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Álvaro LARANJO
APEG (Portugal)
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Thea LARSEN
Danish Gas Technology Center
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Ionut MANESCU
Distrigaz Sud Retele (Romania)
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Naiara Ortiz de MENDIBIL ROMO
Sedigas (Spain)
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Diego MODOLELL
SVGW (Switzerland)
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Rastislav NUKOVIC
Slovak Gas and Oil Association (Slovakia)
Aaron PETERSEN
Energinet (Denmark)
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Hans RASMUSSON
ERIG (Belgium)
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Pawel STANCZAK
Gas TSO of Ukraine (Ukraine)
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Ioannis TSIBLAKIS
EDA Attikis (Greece)
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Jose Miguel TUDELA
Chair of the Standing Committee Sustainability
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Steven VAN CAEKENBERGHE
Synergrid / Gas.be (Belgium)
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Veronika VOHLIDKOVA
CGA (Czech Republic)
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James WATSON
Eurogas (Belgium)
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Uwe WETZEL
DVGW (Germany)
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Jeroen ZANTING
Gasunie (The Netherlands)