Dr. Kyriakos Maniatis

Kyriakos Maniatis worked under various functions in the Directorate General for Energy of the European Commission (DG ENER) from 1988 up to his retirement as Principal Administrator in April 2020. He was responsible for innovation and technical issues related to biomass, bioenergy, and biofuels. Kyriakos managed the DG ENER demonstration component under the various Framework Programs of the Commission specialising in advanced biofuels in the 7th Framework Programme and Horizon 2020. He regularly contributed to the legislative actions of the Commission regarding bioenergy and to the European Technology Innovation Platform - Bioenergy of the EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan. Kyriakos led the Commission’s standardisation initiatives for liquid and gaseous biofuels as well as algae, drafting the mandates to CEN, and initiated and managed several research projects for standardisation work with CEN. He also was the low carbon fuels industry interlocutor for DG ENER. In this role Kyriakos undertook several initiatives in close coordination with the industry for the market deployment of advanced biofuels, including setting up the European Biofuels FlightPath in Aviation in 2011 and the Alternative Renewable Transport Fuels Forum (ART Fuels Forum) in 2017. He also led the work of the Sub-Group on Advanced Biofuels (SGAB) of the Sustainable Transport Forum.