In-Focus Session: Energy-mix to Accelerate Africa’s Development

December 14, 2017

Moderator: André Caillé, Board Member, Junex - Eric Festa, Senior Vice President, LNG Business Development, Total - R. Andreas Kraemer, Founder & Chairman, Ecologic Institute - Thione Niang, Co-Founder of Akon Lighting Africa - Simone Tagliapietra, Research Fellow, Bruegel

Speakers
Simone Tagliapietra
Research Fellow, Bruegel
Simone Tagliapietra, an Italian citizen, joined Bruegel in April 2015. He is also Senior Researcher at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. He is an expert in international energy and climate issues, with a record of numerous publications covering the European energy markets, the EU energy and climate policy and the Euro-Mediterranean energy relations, with a particular focus on Turkey. Among other things, he published the volumes "The Globalization of Natural Gas Markets. New Challenges and Opportunities for Europe" and “The Geoeconomics of Sovereign Wealth Funds and Renewable Energy”. Before joining Bruegel he spent a year in Istanbul as Visiting Researcher at the Istanbul Policy Center at Sabanci University. Previously, he also completed a traineeship at the Sustainable Ener ...

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