Dr. Ingmar Schlecht is co-director of Neon, a boutique energy economics consulting firm. He is an energy economist focusing on electricity market design, ancillary service procurement and power grid modelling. Ingmar has advised clients in the industry and public sector and worked intensively with Germany’s Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action on ancillary services procurement, redispatch markets and open-source energy modeling. As a PhD and postdoctoral researcher at University of Basel, he has developed the electricity market model Swissmod and coordinated two system adequacy studies for the Swiss government.