Bogdan Atanasiu is an economic analyst at the European Commission DG Energy, Economic Analysis and Financial Instruments Unit. Since 2015 he worked on the elaboration of the Energy Union monitoring framework, coordinating the preparation of a relevant set of indicators and scoreboard presented in the State of the Energy Union Reports and through the online visualisation tool on DG Energy website. More recently, he contributed to the assessment of the draft National Energy and Climate Plans of the EU Member States and is currently involved in the preparation of the e-platform for future progress reports towards 2030 climate and energy objectives. He is also responsible for the statistical and data related activities acting as statistical and local data correspondent of DG Energy and being in charge with the production of the annual publications Energy Statistical Pocketbook and energy statistical datasheets. Bogdan is electrical engineer with a Ph.D. in renewable energy, having prior work experience of about eleven years in renewable energy research at the Romanian Research Institute for Electrical Engineering and of other eleven years on end-use energy efficiency at the JRC's Institute for Energy and Transport – Renewable Energy Unit, Institute for European Environmental Policy and Buildings Performance Institute Europe.