Kavita Ahluwalia is Senior Vice President Governmental Relations International at Uniper. She previously held several positions in the company, having joined its predecessor E.ON ahead of the spin-off in 2016. No stranger to European policy making, she has worked for the likes of E3G (NGO) and Burson-Marsteller (now Burson), as a Parliamentary Assistant to Avril Doyle MEP (EPP;IE) and within the European Commission. She assisted Doyle in her work as Rapporteur for the EU Emissions Trading Directive Review in 2008/09 and also worked as an intern and contractual agent in the then Climate Directorate of DG Environment (now CLIMA) at the European Commission.

Kavita holds an M.Econ.Sc. in European Economic and Public Affairs, as well as a Bachelor of Business and Legal Studies (BBLS) both from University College Dublin (UCD). A British and Irish National, born and raised in Germany, she is bilingual in German and English.

Aside from sitting on the IETA Council, Kavita also serves as Co-Chair in IETA’s EU Working Group.