Press Conference: Watts next? Energy Policy for Europe on 18 March 10 a.m. CET Online
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ifo Institut – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V. Read the whole report on our EconPol website: https://www.econpol.eu/publications/policy_report_49/securing-europes-energy-and-competitiveness-where-the-eu-energy-policy-should-go-now
Autors of the Report and participants of the press conference:
Frédéric Gonand: Professor of Economics at University Paris Dauphine-PSL. From 2007 to 2011, Economic Advisor to the French Minister of the Economy (C. Lagarde). From 2011 to 2013, Commissioner of the French Energy Regulation Authority. Director of Masters, Executive Master, and MBA. PhD in economics, ENA, PhD in history.
Pedro Linares: Professor of Industrial Engineering at the ICAI School of Engineering, Director of the BP Chair on Energy and Sustainability, and Co-founder and Director of Economics for Energy. He is also a researcher at the Institute for Technology Research (IIT), Affiliate Researcher at the MIT CEEPR and the University Cambridge EPRG, and Senior Fellow at Esade EcPol. Currently he serves as Director of the International Doctoral School of Comillas Pontifical University.
David Newbery: Director of the Cambridge Energy Policy Research Group and Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge. He has been President of the European Economic Association, 1996 and President of the International Association for Energy Economics, 2013. Educated at Cambridge with degrees in Mathematics and Economics, and a PhD in Economics, he has active research on electricity market integration, network charging, financing, and integrating zero-carbon technologies (wind, PV, hydro, nuclear), the design of energy policy and energy taxation.
Karen Pittel: Professor of Economics at the University of Munich and Director of the ifo Center for Energy, Climate and Resources. Karen is also Co-Chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Her main research interests are in the design and the effectiveness and efficiency of climate and energy policies. She has extensive experience in advising policy makers from the regional to the European level.
Julio Saavedra: Senior Economic Policy Advisor to several Gulf countries, particularly at the Royal Court of the Sultanate of Oman, focusing on pension systems, energy transformation, public-private partnerships, total factor productivity and labor markets, among other fields. In addition, he is Fellow at Oman´s Royal Academy and Editor-at-Large at CESifo and other institutions. With degrees in engineering, psychology, and journalism, he was previously a visiting lecturer at the Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, for the Master in European Integration program, and an advisor on the strategic organization of economic research to South Korea’s National Research Council.
Georg Zachmann: Senior Fellow at Bruegel - an independent Economic Think Tank based in Brussels. At Bruegel he has worked since 2009 on energy and climate policy. His work currently focuses on electricity and carbon markets, energy security and green industrial policy. Georg also acts as the Scientific Lead of the GreenDeal Ukraїna project to establish an Energy and Climate Think Tank in Kyiv. Prior to Bruegel Georg worked at the German Ministry of Finance, the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, and the Energy Think Tank LARSEN in Paris and as a consultant. Georg holds a doctoral degree in Economics.
Author but no participant in the press conference:
Andreas Löschel holds the Chair of Environmental/Resource Economics and Sustainability at the Ruhr University Bochum. Andreas is also Chairman of the Expert Commission of the German Government to monitor the energy transformation and a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth and Sixth Assessment Report. His main research interest lies in the assessment of energy and climate policies with a focus on individual incentives and the use of simulation models.
ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
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