Fokke Elskamp (1966) obtained a master degree in law at the Free University of Amsterdam with a major in private and corporate law. 

After finishing his studies, he worked for several years as a corporate legal consultant at accountancy firms, including Ernst & Young. Later he became an expert in energy law and regulation, starting in this field as a legislative lawyer at the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2002. 

In 2008 he changed position to legal counsel at the Netherlands Competition Authority (currently: ACM), the Dutch National Regulatory Authority for energy, where he dealt with numerous resolutions related to electricity and gas regulation, and brought cases before the Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal.

In 2013 Fokke became a company lawyer at Legal Affairs of TenneT TSO, the Dutch national electricity transmission system operator. 

In 2020 he switched internally to the regulatory department, where he is a senior advisor on European regulatory affairs. 

His main activities concern the representation of TenneT at the Legal & Regulatory Group (LRG) of the European Network for Transmission System Operators, ENTSO-E, of which he is currently the chairman. In this capacity, he is the convenor of the TSO project groups on the strategic and internal-government priorities of the LRG, including the Energy Community Task Force supporting the Energy Community TSOs in implementing the European energy acquis in their control areas.

On a side note, Fokke served in the past on the board of the Netherlands association for energy law (NeVER) for six years, and he is a regular contributor to the Dutch Journal of Energy Law (Tijdschrift voor Energierecht).