ENTSOG Annual Report 2015

I am a big supporter of the ENTSOG motto, being “a fair partner to all”.

Frederik Thure Adviser, Market from 2011 to 2014

FREDERIK THURE Secondee from Energinet.dk, Denmark

Working for ENTSOG was an incredibly rewarding experience both from a personal and professional perspective.

During my time with ENTSOG, I was actively engaged in a number of stakeholder sessions aimed at creating a harmonised legal framework for gas transmission in Europe. This work process tested my ability to estab- lish and nurture relationships with major energy companies, primarily from the European gas sector, along with national regulators and senior EU officials. This experience also gave me a profound understanding of business leaders’ mind-set and their preoccupation with preserving and expanding commercial activity in the face of demanding European legis- lation. Making proposals for business rules or legal texts and taking into account stakeholders’ opinions could be extremely challenging but also very rewarding when an acceptable compromise was reached. Subsequently, the most important thing I learned from my ENTSOG experience was how important it was to listen carefully to people, to understand their core objectives and to incorporate their points of view as much as possible. I am therefore a big supporter of the ENTSOG motto, being “a fair partner to all” which I also try to apply in my current job when working with stakeholders.

It was very hard work from time to time, but hard work that was really enjoyable. It was a great experience.

CARMEN RODRIGUEZ Secondee from Enagás, Spain

Carmen Rodríguez Valdés Adviser, System Development from 2011 to 2015

Working as an ENTSOG adviser gave me the chance to work along some really amazing people.

It would be easy to talk about the advantages of the multi-cultural envi- ronment of an association like this, but it was not that, or at least it was not only that. It was the people. Some of them were so committed to the job, so passionate, so skilful in one or another aspect, so selfless and kind, and so polite in their manners that they have somehow set a refer- ence for me, a standard of what a colleague and/or a boss should be. It was a very positive period, particularly from a learning perspective. But it was not acquiring knowledge or developing professional skills which made the experience great. It was something else. It was the feeling of belonging to a team, sharing a target, feeling free to disagree with others’ ideas and feeling open to having one’s own ideas questioned. It was about trusting the team and being trusted. It was very hard work from time to time, but hard work that was really enjoyable. It was a great ex- perience.

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ENTSOG Annual Report 2015