ICEM 2025 – Opening Plenary Speaker

Date: Tuesday 03 June 2025
Time: 9:00 – 10:40
Place: Sala dei Giganti

Speaker Profile

Laurent Dubus is an expert & lead scientist in weather and climate with Réseau de Transport d’ Electricité  (RTE), the French Transmission System Operator. His work focuses on the long-term evolution of power systems and their resilience to climate change, and short-term supply-demand balance.

He brings extensive expertise in climate system modelling, weather and climate forecasting and power system management. Laurent’s efforts are dedicated to improving the integration of accurate weather, climate and environmental data into energy sector policies, planning, risk management and operations. This work helps optimise the management of power systems across different time scales.

Laurent is actively involved in various French and international organisations working at the nexus of energy and meteorology, including the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Superior Council of Meteorology in France, and the ICEM conference series. He will be participating as the Opening Plenary Speaker at ICEM 2025.

Before joining RTE, he worked for EDF R&D between 2001 and 2019. Laurent holds an engineering degree in Marine Environment and a PhD in Physical Oceanography.