Anna Gumbau
Energy transition and climate policy are now where regulation, capital, and operating reality collide, and the conversations leaders need on stage have outgrown the technical briefing format. Boards, regulators, and industry want sessions that move past slogans into the specifics of EU rulemaking, supply chains, and capital flows. That requires a chair who already lives inside the policy file, not one briefed into it the week before.
Anna Gumbau is a Brussels-based energy and climate journalist who chairs and moderates corporate, institutional, and EU policy events on the energy transition, climate action, and the circular economy.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Anna Gumbau
- She arrives at the room already inside the file. Her day job is reporting on EU climate and energy policy for outlets including Euractiv, Energy Monitor, and FORESIGHT Climate and Energy, so panel guidance is editorial rather than scripted.
- She moves comfortably between Brussels institutions, industry associations, and consumer-side stakeholders, with named-client work for the European Commission, Eurelectric, SolarPower Europe, BEUC, and the European Committee of the Regions.
- She works in five languages, English, Spanish, Catalan, French, and Italian, which makes her a single hire across pan-European events that would otherwise need swapped chairs.
- Her former role as Brussels correspondent for Carbon Pulse, covering the EU ETS and the Fit for 55 package, means she can chair sessions on carbon markets and Green Deal implementation without needing a translator into policy language.
- She runs The Green Light, a coaching initiative for women in climate and energy, which gives her a credible second register for women-in-leadership and inclusion sessions at energy-sector events.
Biography highlights
- Brussels-based energy and climate journalist, with published work in Euractiv, Deutsche Welle, El Pais, Energy Monitor, FORESIGHT Climate and Energy, and Carbon Pulse.
- Former Brussels correspondent for Carbon Pulse on the EU ETS and Fit for 55, and former energy reporter at Interfax Global Energy Services in London.
- Member of the Moderating.EU roster and a listed moderator on Parliament Events for the 2024 and 2026 Circular Economy Forums.
- Moderation clients include the European Commission, European Committee of the Regions, EPP Group, Eurelectric, SolarPower Europe, BEUC, Volvo Cars, Booking.com, and EIT Raw Materials.
- Founder of The Green Light, a coaching initiative supporting women working in climate and energy.
- Working languages: English, Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian.
Biography
EU climate and energy policy now sets the operating envelope for entire industries, from power generation to mobility to consumer goods, and the events built around it have become harder to chair well. The room is mixed: Commission officials, industry associations, NGOs, and corporate sustainability leads, each with their own vocabulary and their own red lines. Holding that conversation requires a chair who can read the politics of the file in real time.
That is the working surface Anna Gumbau has spent her journalism career on. As a freelance reporter she has written for Euractiv, Deutsche Welle, El Pais, Energy Monitor, FORESIGHT Climate and Energy, and Carbon Pulse, where she was Brussels correspondent covering the EU Emissions Trading System and the Fit for 55 package. Before that she reported on energy from London with Interfax Global Energy Services. The reporting is the source material she moderates from, not a credential separate from it.
Her client list reflects that positioning. Sessions for the European Commission, the European Committee of the Regions, the EPP Group, Eurelectric, SolarPower Europe, BEUC, Volvo Cars, Booking.com, and EIT Raw Materials cover the full institutional and industry span of the EU energy and circular economy debate. The Parliament Magazine has used her as moderator for its Circular Economy Forum in both 2024 and 2026.
A second strand sits alongside the policy work. Through The Green Light, an initiative she founded for women in climate and energy, she coaches and mentors women working in those sectors, and that lens carries into chair work on women’s leadership and inclusion in industry events. She works in English, Spanish, Catalan, French, and Italian, which is what allows a single chair across the pan-European programme rather than a different name on each language track.
Key speaking topics
- Energy transition and EU climate policy
- Circular economy and resource policy
- European Green Deal implementation
- Carbon markets and the EU Emissions Trading System
- Sustainability in industry and consumer sectors
- Women in climate and energy leadership
Ideal for
- Corporate sustainability, public affairs, and regulatory affairs teams hosting EU-facing events
- Industry associations and trade bodies in power, mobility, and raw materials running policy conferences
- EU institutions, agencies, and political groups commissioning panels, forums, and award ceremonies
- Multilingual pan-European corporate events that need a single chair across English, Spanish, French, and Italian
Audience outcomes
- A panel where the contested points in the file are surfaced and pressure-tested, not deferred
- Clearer separation between policy direction, industry positioning, and unresolved political risk on the topic
- Time held, speakers balanced, and questions from the floor handled inside a defined run order
- A read on how the Brussels conversation on the session topic is moving, from someone reporting on it day to day
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