trilogue is founded by Morten Helveg Petersen, former Member of European Parliament.

Prior to being a MEP Morten was member of the Danish Parliament (1998-2009), director at the Danish Media organization (2009-2014) and consultant at the Confederation of Danish Industry (1993-1998).

In the European Parliament Morten has served as vice-chair of the Industry- and Energy Committee (ITRE) covering energy issues and files such as the electricity market design (2018, 2023), the energy performance of buildings directive (2019, 2023), the European offshore energy strategy (2022), regulation on the Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER, 2018), geo-thermal strategy (2023) among others.

Morten has chaired numerous trilogue negotiations between the European Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission.