Dr. Giorgio Graditi, PhD in Electrical Engineering, has been the General Director of ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development since March 2023. He has held various positions including that of Director of the Department of Energy Technologies and Renewable Sources and he is responsible for ENEA initiatives for the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and national and European projects on energy topics. Since April 2019, he has been the President of MEDENER, the Mediterranean Association of National Agencies for Energy Management for Energy Efficiency and the Development of Renewable Energy Sources; since May 2019, he has been the Coordinator of the Scientific Technical Committee of National Energy Technological Cluster funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research and the vice-coordinator of the Joint Programme on Smart Grid within European Energy Research Alliance (EERA). In 2017, he received the Italian National Scientific Qualification as a Full Professor in electrical energy engineering. His main research interests are in power systems; micro grids and smart grids; multi-energy hub systems; renewable energy sources; energy communities; energy storage; technologies and uses of hydrogen. He is an associate editor and a member of the editorial and advisory boards of scientific journals.