Legal Officer, European Commission

Biography

Kleopatra-Eirini Zerde is an EU-qualified lawyer with a specialization in Energy and Climate Law. She is currently Legal officer of Unit C1 on Renewables and Energy System integration of DG ENER of the European Commission. After finishing Athens Law school in 2017, parallel to her minor degree in Environmental Studies from the American College of Greece, she completed an LLM in Energy and Climate Law at the Groningen University in the Netherlands. Her thesis was a case study of the legal and regulatory system in France and its ability to facilitate the deployment of Hydrogen and Power-to-gas and she has authored the chapter “Goal-Setting Approaches to the Regulation of Hydrogen Transport - A Case Study from France” in the Cambridge Handbook of Hydrogen and the Law . During her time with EC, she is involved with providing expertise on various legal aspects of policies and activities in the area of energy system integration and renewables, contributing to the verification of compliance with the EU law, transposition checks and infringement procedures and it is part of the legal team negotiating the Permitting Directive under the Grids Package.