Current Debate Speaker: Andreas D Thanos

Andreas D Thanos

• Gas Policy Specialist Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities

Andreas Thanos has been, in various capacities, with the Gas Division of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities since 1993. In addition to his regular gas division-related duties, he is working on local and regional cybersecurity matters, cooperating with utilities, counterparts and commissioners at the state and regional level. At the national level, he is the Chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ (“NARUC’) Staff Subcommittee on Gas. He was the key staff person on NARUC’s LNG Working Group -- a NARUC-US DOE partnership established to educate commissions about LNG. Andreas Thanos has participated in several international, USAID-funded projects. Namely, consulting with Albania’s Energy Regulatory Authority (in the United States) and visiting and consulting with the Public Services Regulatory Commission of Armenia, in Yerevan and more recently, the Energy Regulatory Office of Kosovo in Pristina. He is a member of the Advisory Council to the North American Energy Standards Board.

Andreas has an MBA from the University of Massachusetts in Boston, and a Master’s in Energy Economics from Boston University.