Biography

Prof. Dr Per J. Agrell is a Full Professor of Operations Management at the Louvain School of Management and the Centre for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), UCLouvain (Belgium). At the Louvain School of Management, he is Honorary Dean of Faculty and has previously been Director of the Research Institute and Chair of the Doctoral School in Economics and Management. He has held permanent and visiting appointments at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Austria), the University of Georgia (USA), the University of Copenhagen, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).

His research lies at the intersection of operations research, production theory, and productivity and efficiency analysis, with a strong focus on applications to economic regulation. Since the early 2000s, he and collaborators have developed and implemented frontier-based efficiency measurement models for energy and infrastructure regulation, contributing to the design of modern incentive regulation and benchmarking practice. This expertise has led to advisory work for regulators and institutions in more than 14 countries, including the European Commission, ACER and CEER, and to roles as expert witnesses in legal proceedings.

Prof. Agrell has published books, reports, and around 60 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including the Energy Policy, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Productivity Analysis, and Expert Systems with Applications. He serves on the editorial boards of several international journals and is co-founder of Sumicsid, a consulting firm specialising in regulatory economics and frontier benchmarking.

At the EUI, he is a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre and the Florence School of Regulation in Spring 2026, working on cost-efficiency regulation of gas transmission under the energy transition, asset conversion, and sector coupling, including ongoing work with ACER.