Ilaria Conti

Ilaria Conti 

Coordinator of Strategy and Development and member of the FSR Cabinet

Florence School of Regulation (FSR)

Ilaria Conti is the FSR Coordinator of Strategy and Development and member of the FSR Cabinet. She’s an expert in energy policy and regulation, with 20 year-experience in international energy markets and EU institutional relations.

Ilaria entered the energy sector by joining EFET (now Energy Traders Europe) where she covered positions of increasing relevance from 2005 until 2013. In Brussels, Ilaria actively took part in the EU consultative processes leading to the development of major EU Regulations and Directives, such as the Third Energy Package, the RES Directive, EMIR, REMIT, Security of Supply regulation.

She joined the Florence School of Regulation in 2015 and facilitated the establishment of the new FSR Gas area, that she led from its foundation until 2023 and contributed to its research and academic output and managing international research projects on market design, LNG, energy system integration. She inaugurated the Gas area’s workstream on decarbonisation, via renewable and low-carbon gases.

Ilaria is currently responsible also for the gender mainstreaming project “FSR Lights on Women” – which aims at improving gender balance in the energy sector.

Since April 2026 she is also Chair of the United Nations Economic Committee for Europe (UNECE)’s Group of Experts on Gas.