Alex Barnes has more than 30 years of oil and gas industry experience, specializing in energy market design, regulation, and liberalization. He has worked for blue chip companies such as Total, BG Group, and Gazprom. He is recognized as an industry expert on European gas market regulation, having worked on expert panels advising European gas network companies and the European energy regulator in the development of European market rules. Recently, he has focused on policies impacting the development of hydrogen markets; he has written several papers and presented a number of webinars on the subject.