Igor Koprivnikar, PhD

Igor Koprivnikar

graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Technical University of Graz, Austria, and holds a doctorate in nuclear physics from the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Technical University of Graz. Since completing his studies, he has cooperated with a number of scientific institutes around the world.  From 2002 to 2004, he was responsible for the development of Austria's EXAA energy exchange. He began working for Istrabenz-Gorenje, d.o.o. (later GEN-I) as soon as it was founded in 2004. He laid the foundations of the business model for international and cross-border electricity trading that is still used today across the GEN-I Group. From 2004 to 2005, he was a member of the management board at Austrian Power Vertriebs GmbH in Vienna. As member of GEN-I, d.o.o.'s management board responsible for trading, he is in charge of implementing business strategies in the electricity trading segment in Slovenia and abroad, and is responsible for the Group’s finance and accounting function. He is the executive director of nine of the Group’s foreign subsidiaries.