Jan De Pauw is an electrical engineer and followed a postgraduate degree in business management. His professional career crosses the Belgian energy sector from public to private to civil sector, from production to supply. Since its foundation in 2015, Jan has been a director of REScoop.Vlaanderen, the Flemish federation of civil energy cooperatives, and is an active member of the offshore wind working group #burgerwindopzee. His mission is a socially fair energy transition through cooperative entrepreneurship using renewable energy sources. During the day, Jan works as a project manager for the citizen energy cooperative Ecopower and assigned as senior advisor to the city of Eeklo