Speakers
Dr. Dejan Paravan is member of the management board at GEN-I, electricity trading and sales company in Slovenia. He is responsible for sales activities to end customers and purchase activities from power produces. GEN-I is a fast growing company acting on 14 markets mainly in South East Europe and Central Europe.
Dr. Paravan received his Diploma Engineer and PhD degree from the Faculty of Elkectrical Engineering, Univesity of Ljubljana, in 1999 and 2004 respectively. During his PhD studies he was employed as young researcher in Energy Policy Lab at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Univesrity of Ljubljana. For research reasons he visited Siemens research center in Erlangen and several times Iowa State University in USA. He was also on a working visit at the company Decision Systems International (Atlanta, USA), as a technical consultant for implementation of EPRI software for short-term load forecasting (ANNSTLF) at system operators CA-ISO (California), PNM (New Mexico) and ONS (Brazil).
During his staying at the University he took part in several research and aplied projects for Slovenian energy companies and projects in the EU Framework Programme.
After finishing his PhD he joined Istrabenz Gorenje company, which has a 50% share in GEN-I. Since then he took several positions in the field of electricity sales and electricity trading at companies within the group. Dr. Paravan started up the retail electricity business within the group in Slovenia. In 2005 and 2006 he was also CEO of Istrabenz-Gorenje, electricity trading and sales, and member of the management board at Austrian Power Vertriebs GmbH, Wien, Austria. The company sells electricity to big industrial customers in Austria and Germany with annual volume totaling 4 TWh.
In 2006 the group undertook several organizational and statutory changes, consolidating in GEN-I. Thuring this years his mani activities and assignments were business development for electricity sales and trading, developing business infrastructure, building teams and HRM, risk management in electricity markets, developing CRM for electricity sales, etc.
Dr. Paravan is member of CIGRE and president of the study committee C5 (Electricity Markets and Regulation) at SLOKO CIGRE, Slovenia. He was also member of the organizing committee of the international conference Balkan Power Conference (BPC) 2002 in Belgrade and chairman of the organizing committee at BPC 2003 in Bucharest and BPC 2004 in Sarajevo. He is author or co-author of more than 50 scientific and technical papers and conference referats.