Layla Sawyer is the Secretary General of CurrENT, the voice of innovative grid technology companies in Europe. Prior to this she was Head of Business Development at smartEn, where she worked on flexibility, digitalisation and the future of prosumer models. She has also worked at Urgenda, a national climate NGOs in the Netherlands, advocating for more urgency in the Dutch energy transition, and she spent a year in the Philippines working for a social investment fund specialized in climate resilient enterprises. She studied Sustainable Business and Innovation at the University of Utrecht, with a special focus on energy and material transitions and p2p energy trading.