4th Transatlantic Energy Security Dialogue
Governing the Emerging Global Market
for Gas: Trends, Challenges and Policy
Implications for the Transatlantic
Alliance
Participants’ Booklet
With additional support from:
E.ON Representation, Berlin, 4 - 5 September 2008
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Conference Program
DAY 1
12:00pm
Arrival and Registration
12:30pm
Lunch Buffet
02:00pm
Welcome (Room 4403 - Plenary Room)
02:15pm
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Joachim Lang, Director of Berlin Representation, E.ON AG
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Jan Martin Witte, Associate Director, Global Public Policy Institute
OPENING PANEL DISCUSSION
Towards a global market for gas? Current trends, expectations and
implications for governance
Trade in natural gas is mainly restricted to regional blocs and hence there
exists no established framework for governing what many see as a
developing global gas market. Demand for natural gas is growing and for
a functioning market to exist, rules and governance mechanisms must be
in place in order to provide the necessary regulatory framework for
promoting investment, competition and risk management. What are the
drivers behind the emergence of a global market for gas? What are the
hurdles? Will a global market for gas resemble the global oil market, and if
not, why? What rules and mechanisms would need to exist for a global
gas market to function?
Panelists:
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Jochen Weise, Member of the Executive Board, Gas Supply & Trading, E.ON
Ruhrgas AG
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Ben Hollins, Head of European Gas and Power Consulting, Wood Mackenzie
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Pieter Boot, Director, Long-Term Co-Operation and Policy Analysis,
International Energy Agency
Moderated by Andreas Goldthau, Central European University
03:45pm
Coffee Break
04:15pm
WORKING GROUP SESSION (I)
Financing exploration and production in gas: The changing global
energy landscape
Being a capital intensive industry, all gas businesses heavily rely on
financial markets to facilitate exploration and production (E&P) projects.
Unlike other investment projects, however, the energy sector often also
entails considerable political risks. It thus depends on the ability of
financial markets to mitigate or hedge these risks, i.e. its underlying “rules
of the game” determine which investment projects attract financing – and
which do not. The workings groups in this session provide an impetus to
discuss some of the main challenges of financing the future of gas
exploration and production in a politically and environmentally
sustainable manner.
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WORKING GROUP A
Increased demand, lagging supply: State-owned gas companies and the
problem of underinvestment
Room: 4403 (Plenary room)
Today, a large percentage of known global gas reserves are controlled
by state-owned companies and this share is set to increase significantly
over the coming years. Hence, state-owned companies play a pivotal
role in exploration projects. However, in virtually all cases, stateowned gas companies are lacking sufficient investment to meet
increasing demand. Concerns have been voiced in particular about
levels of investment in Russian gas supplies. Does the trend towards
increasing nationalization of gas resources have an effect on rechanneling investments? To what extent are these companies
negatively affected by political functions, for example, in Russia or
Iran?
Introductory speaker: Joerg Doerler, Principal, the Boston Consulting
Group
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WORKING GROUP B
The economics of LNG: Investing in liquefied natural gas
Room: 5435
LNG is capital intensive industry requiring a relatively long period of
time from the initial investment to construct terminals, ships and
pipelines, establish a supply chain and begin generating returns.
Furthermore, political, environmental and social issues can also
hinder investment. To what extent is current worldwide investment in
LNG enough to satisfy future demand? What economic and
regulatory barriers exist that hinder LNG investment? What
incentives can be offered to increase investment?
Introductory speaker: Thierry Bros, Senior Gas Equity Analyst, Societe
Generale
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WORKING GROUP C
Investing in clean gas: Gas to liquid and gas hydrates
Room: 4415
Gas to liquid production has been hailed as a way to both reduce
transportation emissions and lower the cost of transporting natural
gas. In addition, during the past few decades, gas hydrates have been
identified as having a massive reserve potential, however, energy
companies have been reluctant to invest due to a relative lack of
research and knowledge of potential geological and environmental
dangers. Where do we currently stand with these two technologies?
What are the potential benefits and pitfalls? To what extent can they
fulfill overall energy demand?
Introductory speaker: James Vaughan, Manager, Technology and
Environment, Sasol Chevron
05:30pm
Dinner Buffet
07:00pm
EVENING PANEL DISCUSSION
A New Silk Road? The Caspian Sea and European Energy Security
Room: 4430
Panelists:
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Jochen Weise, Member of the Executive Board, Gas Supply & Trading, E.ON
Ruhrgas AG
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Jonathan Stern, Director of Gas Research, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
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Christof van Agt, Advisor to the IEA on the Caspian Sea and Central Asia
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Edward Chow, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Moderated by Petra Pinzler, DIE ZEIT
09:00pm
Reception
DAY 2
09:00am
PANEL DISCUSSION II
The politicization of gas: Implications for security of supply and the
development of a global gas market
Like oil, gas is a politically charged commodity. In recent years we have
seen, for example, Russia utilize its gas resources as political leverage, the
political upheaval surrounding Bolivia’s natural gas nationalization and
the emerging “grand game” in the Caspian region. In addition, we are
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beginning to see a new “Arctic scramble” as the effects of climate change
produce new political challenges. Not the least, we are still confronted
with a difficult political situation in Iran. To what extent can the
development of a functioning global gas market (as opposed to regional
markets) lessen political motivations? Would a global gas market provide
security of supply through greater opportunities for diversification? What
steps can be taken to deter the use of an “energy weapon” or potential
leverage strategies by transit countries?
Room: 4403 (Plenary room)
Panelists:
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Daniel Simmons, Former Principal Natural Gas Expert, International Energy
Agency
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Edward Chow, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
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Joachim Pfeiffer, Member of the German Parliament and Coordinator of
Energy Matters, CDU-CSU
Moderated by Wade Hoxtell, GPPi
Q&A
10:30am
Coffee break
10:45am
WORKING GROUP SESSION (II)
Supply, demand and the politics of gas
This working group session will analyze the different political
implications of the emerging global gas market. The first working group
will address the geopolitical issues associated with the transport of LNG,
while the second group will examine the role of transit countries in
delivery of gas through pipelines. The final working group will focus on
different regional suppliers, consumer demand and the potential for
consumer clashes.
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WORKING GROUP A
Geopolitical implications of liquefied natural gas (LNG)
Room: 4403 (Plenary room)
As the trade and transit of LNG become increasingly prevalent,
concerns about security arise with respect to the same “chokepoints”
that affect the oil market, most significantly the Straits of Hormuz and
Malacca. What maritime threats currently exist in these major
chokepoints? What geopolitical difficulties exist regarding
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international cooperation in securing the straits and what challenges
exist in responding to transit disruptions? What security implications
will result as China and India become increasingly dependent on
secure delivery of both gas and oil?
Introductory speaker: Thierry Bros, Senior Gas Equity Analyst, Societe
Generale
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WORKING GROUP B
From producer to consumer: The role of transit countries
Room: 4415
In light of the recent Russia-Ukraine/Belarus gas dispute, much
attention has been paid to the role of transit countries in reliably
delivering gas to the European market. It has become clear that to
ensure security of gas supply, it is of great importance to have multiple
suppliers and multiple transit routes. However, this requirement has
numerous implications on foreign policy, international law,
economics and infrastructure construction. What regulatory barriers
exist and what multilateral framework is required to manage these
transit corridors? What policies need to be in place to ensure
consistent, fair and secure delivery? How can political stability be
promoted in transit countries?
Introductory speaker: Ralf Dickel, Director for Trade, Transit and
Relations with Non-signatories States, Energy Charter Secretariat
WORKING GROUP C
At the intersection of demand: Regional suppliers and competing consumers
Room: 5435
As new upstream gas operations have developed, we have observed
that global demand for gas transcends the traditional regional system
and the interests of different consumers clash, for example in Central
Asia where both the EU and China are eager for gas access. How do
demand needs in different regions correlate to the estimated supply
capacity? What producing regions may lead to a clash of consumers?
What types of mechanisms are necessary to avert potential conflicts?
Introductory speaker: Uwe Fip, Senior Vice-President, Gas Supply Division
East, E.ON Ruhrgas
12:00pm
Lunch
01:30pm
WORKING GROUP SESSION (III)
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Short-term supply management in a global gas market
As we become increasingly dependent on natural gas to satisfy our energy
needs, it becomes more crucial to have short-term supply (risk)
management mechanisms to hedge potential risks. The first group in this
session will examine potential disruptions in the gas supply and ways to
mitigate these threats. The second group will focus on different ways the
EU and the US can diversify their gas supply. Lastly, the third group will
analyze gas storage capacity and the role of strategic gas stocks.
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WORKING GROUP A
Disruption drivers and methods of mitigation
Room: 4403 (Plenary room)
A number of possibilities exist that threaten disruption of gas supply
to the market, for example, natural disasters, political weapons (i.e.
the cases of Russia and Bolivia), and terrorism. In addition, the
dependency of Europe on Russia and of the US on Canada poses
additional consequences. While the expansion of the LNG market
could help mitigate some risk, what other options exist? How can
consumers mitigate these short-term threats to gas markets? What
framework exists or should be created to hedge these risks? What role
can the International Energy Agency or other established institutions
play?
Introductory speaker: Jens Hobohm, Research Fellow, German Institute for
International and Security Affairs
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WORKING GROUP B
A new source for diversification? The potential and limits of biogas
Room: 4415
Biogas is relatively clean burning renewable energy produced from the
decomposition of organic waste materials, mainly in the form of
methane. In addition, as methane is a greenhouse gas with greater
global warming potential than carbon dioxide, the potential benefits of
harvesting these gases can play a significant role in mitigating climate
change while contributing to energy security. Where do we stand
regarding biogas technology? To what extent can biogas play a
significant role in diversification efforts? What political and
environmental challenges exist; how should challenges be addressed?
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Introductory speaker: Miranda Schreurs, Director of the Environmental
Policy Research Centre and Professor of Comparative Politics, Free University,
Berlin
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WORKING GROUP C
Storage capacity and strategic gas stocks
Room: 5435
To ensure security of gas supply, many argue that, like oil, the
existence of strategic stocks is essential. However, due to high costs
for storage and developing the necessary infrastructure, as well as
decreasing domestic production, investment incentives and a solid
regulatory framework are required to increase capacity. To what
extent can strategic gas stocks represent an effective policy response to
supply disruptions? What challenges exist within gas delivery
infrastructures, especially in with respect to Europe’s national grids,
concerning their ability to deliver gas supplies when and where they
are needed following a disruption? What incentives are needed to
promote appropriate investment into storage capacities? What has
been the experience in the US?
Introductory speaker: Ben Hollins, Head of European Gas and Power
Consulting, Wood Mackenzie
02:45 pm
Coffee Break
03:00pm
PANEL DISCUSSION III
Diversification and security of supply in a global gas market: The transatlantic
agenda
The emergence of a global gas market provides an opportunity as well as a
need for market rules and mechanisms in order to ensure security of gas
supply in both the EU and US. However, issues such as import
dependency, transit dependency, as well as associated environmental and
social responsibilities loom as major challenges to achieving security of
gas supply. In addition, there exists no comprehensive institutional
framework that can both structure and promote transparency in a global
gas market. What can the US and the EU do to mitigate these
dependencies? What institutional framework must be built for consumer
cooperation and transparency in a global gas market?
Room: 4403 (Plenary room)
Panelists:
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Dick de Jong, Senior Fellow, Clingendael International Energy Programme
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Alan Hegburg, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Energy Policy
Office of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy
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Paul Saunders, Executive Director, The Nixon Center
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Heinrich Hick, Policy Officer, The European Commission, DG TREN
Moderated by Jan Martin Witte, GPPi
Q&A
04:30pm
CONCLUDING DISCUSSION AND
FAREWELL
The transatlantic agenda: Where do we go from here?
Moderated by Andreas Goldthau, Central European University
04:45pm
Farewell
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List of Participants
Dr. Eltje ADERHOLD
Mr. Ralf DICKEL
Scientific
Coordinator,
Working
Committee International Policy and
Human Rights, Parliamentary Group
Alliance 90/the Greens, Berlin
Director for Trade, Transit and
Relations with Non-signatories States,
Energy Charter Secretariat
Mr. Matthias ADOLF
Policy Planning,
Office, Berlin
Assistant Professor, Environmental
Policy Research Centre, Free University
of Berlin
Dr. Markus BAUMANNS
Executive Vice President, Ebelin and
Gerd Bucerius ZEIT Foundation
Dr. William BLYTH
Associate Fellow, Chatham House and
Director, Oxford Energy Associates
Dr. Pieter BOOT
Director of Long-Term Co-operation
and Policy Analysis, IEA
Dr. Thierry BROS
Senior Financial
Générale
Analyst,
Société
Mr. Edward CHOW
Senior Fellow, Center for International
and Strategic Studies
Dr. Stacy CLOSSON
Transatlantic Post Doctoral Research
Fellow,
German
Institute
for
International and Security Affairs
(SWP)
Mr. Dick DE JONG
Mr. Marcel DIETSCH
German
Foreign
Mr. Jörg DOERLER
Principal, Boston Consulting Group
Mr. Andreas DOMNICK
Consultant, Shell
International BV
Global
Solutions
Mr. Uwe FIP
Senior Vice President, Gas Supply
Division East, E.ON Ruhrgas
Mr. Thomas GEISEL
Senior Vice President and Director, Gas
Supplies North, E.ON Ruhrgas, Berlin
Dr. Andreas GOLDTHAU
Assistant Professor, Central European
University and Fellow, GPPi
Mr. Oliver HAACK
Global Energy Institute Berlin
gGmbH i.Gr
Mr. Enno HARKS
Political Adviser, BP
Ms. Arna HARTMANN
Adjunct Professor at Free University
Berlin and Consultant
Senior
Fellow,
Clingendael
International Energy Programme
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Ms. Ingrid KOLLIST
Mr. Detlev HARTMANN
CEO of ENERTRAG
Finance AG
Structured
Economic Counselor, US Embassy,
Berlin
Dr. Heinrich KREFT
Mr. Alan HEGBURG
Deputy
Assistant
Secretary
International Energy Policy,
Department of Energy
for
US
Mr. Daniel KROOS
Mr. Helmut HERMELING
Oil and Gas Expert, General Electric
International, Germany
Mr. Heinrich HICK
Policy
Officer,
the
Commission, DG TREN
Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, CDUCSU, German Bundestag
European
International Consultant on Energy
Issues, World Bank
Dr. Joachim LANG
Director, Berlin Representation, E.ON
AG
Ms. Jamie MANZER
Dr. Jörg HIMMELREICH
Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German
Marshall Fund, Berlin
Mr. Jens HOBOHM
Research Fellow, German Institute for
International and Security Affairs
(SWP)
Research Assistant, Global
Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
Public
Mr. Christoph MEIER
Head, Strategy
Energie AG
Department,
MVV
Mr. Werner NOWAK
Mr. Ben HOLLINS
Head, Energy Industry Section, E.ON
Ruhrgas AG
Head of European Gas and Power
Consulting, Wood Mackenzie
Dr. Joachim PFEIFFER
Mr. Wade HOXTELL
Research Associate, Global
Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
Public
Member of the German Parliament,
CDU-CSU
Dr. Gerrit RIEMER
Senior Economist, EnBW AG
Vice President Power & Gas II Security of Supply, Nuclear
Economic and Public Affairs,
Dr. Birte Holst JORGENSEN
E.ON AG
Dr. Jörg JASPER
Managing
Research
Director,
Nordic
Energy
Mr. Frederic KALINKE
Intern, Global Public Policy Institute
(GPPi), Berlin
Dr. Sanam SALEM HAGHIGHI
Supply and
ECONGAS
Trading
Department,
Mr. Paul SAUNDERS
Executive Director, the Nixon Center
Dr. Miranda SCHREURS
Director of the Environmental Policy
Research Centre and Professor of
Comparative Politics at the Free
University, Berlin
Mr. Horst SCHUMACHER
Security of Natural Gas Supply in
Germany, BMWi
Mr. Daniel SIMMONS
Gas and Oil Market Originator, EDF
Trading
Dr. Jonathan STERN
Director of Gas Research, Oxford
Institute for Energy Studies
Mr. Christof VAN AGT
Advisor, Caspian and Central Asian
Affairs, International Energy Agency
Dr. James VAUGHAN
General Manager, Technology
Environment, Sasol Chevron
and
Mr. Timo VEHRS
Deputy Director of Strategy, Gazprom
Germania
Mr. Marian WEIMANN
Research Assistant, Global
Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
Public
Dr. Jochen WEISE
Member of the Executive Board, Gas
Supply & Trading, E.ON Ruhrgas
Dr. Jan Martin WITTE
Associate Director, Global Public Policy
Institute (GPPi), Berlin
Mr. Alexander ZAFIRIOU
Economic and Public Affairs, Power &
Gas II - Security of Supply, Nuclear,
E.ON AG
Participants’ Biographies
Dr. Eltje ADERHOLD
Scientific Coordinator, Working Committee International Policy and Human Rights, German
Parliamentary Group Alliance 90/the Greens
Eltje Aderhold, Ph.D. International Law, joined the Working Committee International
Policy and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Group Alliance 90/The Greens in 2006.
Until 2005 she was member of the German Permanent Delegation to the OSCE in
Vienna. Prior to this assignment she worked as a lawyer by formation and career
diplomat in Vietnam, Geneva (Permanent Mission to the United Nations and Other
International Organisations), Macedonia (Task Force Fox) and Afghanistan.
Matthias ADOLF
Assistant Professor, Environmental Policy Research Centre, Free University
of Berlin
Matthias Adolf, Dipl.-Pol., born 1970, since 2004 assistant lecturer for
international relations and energy policy at the Environmental Policy
Research Centre at the Otto-Suhr-Institut at the Freie Universität
Berlin. His main interests are political development in Greater-Middle-East, oil and
natural gas policy and energy security policy of EU, U.S., Russia and China. Since 2005,
he has been working on his PhD-Thesis: "The significance of Caspian energy resources
for the People's Republic of China". He is a research fellow within the project "Energy
policy in the Caspian Region".
Dr. Markus BAUMANNS
Executive Vice President, Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius ZEIT Foundation
Being Executive Vice President of the Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius
ZEIT Foundation, Markus Baumanns is responsible for the
initiatives of the Foundation in the field of Science and Education
and the projects in America and Asia. He is also Chairman of the
Executive Board of Bucerius Law School.
He obtained a Master's Degree in History, Political Science and Literature in 1990 and a
Ph.D. in History in 1994 from the University of Cologne. He started his career in 1990 in
the Press and Information Office of the German Federal Government. In 1995 he
entered the German Foreign Service and served as Diplomat at the German embassy in
Bogotá, Colombia. In January 2000 he started at the ZEIT Foundation as Program
Director for international programs, press and public relations. From 2001 to 2006 he
served as CEO and Provost of the biggest project of the Foundation, the Bucerius Law
School. The first and so far only private Law School in Germany opened its gates in
October 2000, has a strong international focus and now hosts 620 Master and Bachelor
Students and 17 full-time Professors.
Markus Baumanns is a frequent speaker in Germany and abroad on issues such as
reforming German and European public higher education, internationalization of the
legal education situation of German foundations and philanthropy, and recent political
and legal development in China. He has published numerous articles in newspapers, law
journals, and books on the reform of higher education in Germany and on the
internationalization of legal education in Germany.
Dr. William BLYTH
Associate Fellow, Chatham House and Director, Oxford Energy Associates
Dr. William Blyth is currently an Associate Fellow of Chatham House
in the Sustainable Development Programme and a Director of Oxford
Energy Associates, a team of independent advisors specializing in
energy and climate change policy advice. He works with a range of
different organizations in both private and public sector, focusing on
climate change policy design and implications for energy sector investment risk, energy
security and greenhouse gas emissions.
Until October 2004, William was working at the International Energy Agency in Paris
responsible for policy analysis on energy and climate change issues. Prior to joining the
IEA, he worked for a short period at the European Environment Agency where he was
employed as a Project Manager on Energy and Environment. Prior to this he worked for
over 8 years at one of Europe's largest environmental consultancies - AEA Technology.
William has a DPhil in Physics from Oxford University.
Dr. Pieter BOOT
Director of Long-Term Co-operation and Policy Analysis, International
Energy Agency
Panelist on Towards a global market for gas? Current trends, expectations and
implications for governance
After finishing his studies Pieter worked as an Assistant-Professor in
the Universities of Tilburg and Amsterdam (1980-1985), where he published extensively
in national and international journals on comparative economic systems. In 1985 he
joined the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment to work in the Labour
Market Directorate. In 1992 he took up the position of Deputy Director for Energy
Policy in the Ministry of Economic Affairs. He was the project leader of a fundamental
white paper on energy policy of the Netherlands (1996). In 1997, he joined the Ministry
of Transport and Water Management to become Director for Passenger Transport,
responsible for the regulation and financing of public transport and the preparation of
road pricing. In 2001, Pieter returned to the Ministry of Economic Affairs to become
Director for Energy Strategy and Consumption. In 2004 he became Deputy-General for
Energy, responsible for multilateral international aspects of energy policy (EU, IEA,
IEF) and for the largest financial instrument of the Ministry (subsidy scheme of
renewable energy), as well as the introduction of emissions trading and energy R&D
policy.
Dr. Thierry BROS
Senior Financial Analyst, Société Générale
Presenter: Working Group on LNG and short-term supply management in the
emerging global gas market and Working Group on Geopolitical implications
of liquefied natural gas (LNG)
Thierry Bros joined Société Générale in 2007, as Senior Financial
Analyst, to provide clients with recommendations on listed gas stocks and in-depth
research on gas issues. Thierry was, from 2002 to 2007, the Senior Oil & Gas expert at
the French Department of Trade and Industry, where he represented France on oil
markets and emergency questions at the International Energy Agency (Paris), the
European Commission and the Energy Charter (Brussels). His responsibilities included
providing global reviews for top French officials covering oil and gas issues and
negotiating European directives. As a gas specialist, Thierry reviewed the regulations
governing the opening up and liberalization of the French gas market and supervised the
Contingency Gas Plan. Prior to that, Thierry was, for five years, Head of Internal
Communication at the Institut Français du Pétrole. Dr. Bros is also a lecturer at several
universities and a speaker at international conferences on gas-related subjects.
Edward C. CHOW
Senior Fellow, Center for International and Strategic Studies
Panelist on The politicization of gas: Implications for security of supply and the
development of a global gas market and Panelist on A New Silk Road? The
Caspian Sea and European Energy Security
Edward Chow is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International &
Strategic Studies in Washington DC. He is an international energy expert with 30 years
of oil industry experience from working in Asia, Middle East, Africa, South America,
Europe and the former Soviet Union. He has developed policy and business strategy,
and successfully negotiated complex, multi-billion dollar, international business
ventures. He specializes in investments in emerging economies and international oil &
gas. He has advised U.S. and foreign governments, major international oil companies,
leading U.S. multinational corporations and European firms.
Mr. Chow spent 20 years with Chevron Corporation in U.S. and overseas assignments.
He was head of international external affairs in headquarters in California. He played a
leading role in negotiating the international commercial agreement to build a $2.6 billion
oil pipeline from Kazakhstan on the Caspian to the Russian Black Sea coast. While he
was Chevron’s principal international representative in Washington, he worked closely
with the White House, Capitol Hill, federal departments and agencies, foreign
governments, international financial institutions, and the foreign policy community on
international economic policy affecting worldwide investments. Between 1989 and
1991, Mr. Chow was based in Beijing as Chevron’s country manager for China.
Dr. Stacy CLOSSON
Transatlantic Post Doctoral Research Fellow, German Institute for
International and Security Affairs (SWP)
Dr. Stacy Closson is a Trans-Atlantic Post-Doc Fellow for
International Relations and Security (TAPIR) at Stiftung Wissenschaft
und Politik in Berlin. Her current research agenda focuses on
European energy security in relation to the post-Soviet states. She has
spent over 10 years working, researching, and writing on issues of the weak state,
transnational networks, and corruption in the post-Soviet space. Following her time at
SWP, she will continue the TAPIR fellowship at RAND Corporation in Washington,
DC.
Dick DE JONG
Senior Fellow, Clingendael International Energy Programme
Panelist on Diversification and security of supply in a global gas market: The
transatlantic agenda
Dick de Jong joined Shell in 1972. After various assignments in the
natural gas business, he became Vice-President of Shell’s European gas
business in 1990. From 1995 until his retirement in 2001 he was
Director of Shell Gas and Power.
Dick de Jong is currently a Senior Fellow at the Clingendael International Energy
Programme in The Hague. He is also key-lecturer at the Energy Delta Institute in
Groningen.
Ralf DICKEL
Director for Trade, Transit and Relations with Non-signatories States, Energy
Charter Secretariat
Panelist on From consumer to producer: The role of transit countries
In October 2004 Ralf Dickel joined the Energy Charter Secretariat as
Director for Transit, Trade and Relations with Non-Signatories. From
October 2001 he headed the Energy Diversification Division at the International Energy
Agency (IEA), the energy arm of the OECD in Paris, responsible for Policy Analysis of
Energy Markets and of Energy Market Reform. Before joining the IEA he worked as
Senior Specialist for Oil and Gas Policy for the World Bank after a long career with
E.ON Ruhrgas AG, the largest German gas company, where he held various managing
positions both in the gas purchase and the gas sales department. Ralf Dickel is a German
national and has an advanced degree in Mathematics from the University of Tuebingen
and an advanced degree in economics from the University of Giessen.
Marcel DIETSCH
Policy Planning, German Foreign Office, Berlin
Marcel Dietsch specializes in the political and economic dimensions of energy resources.
He currently works for the Policy Planning Staff at the German Foreign Office in Berlin.
In September 2008, Marcel will begin his Ph.D in International Relations at Oxford
University. From 2006 to 2008 Marcel earned a Master in Public Policy (MPP) degree at
Harvard University while working as Professor Joseph Nye’s research associate and
teaching assistant at Harvard. Prior to this, he studied business management and
economics in Regensburg, Germany and in the UK.
Professional and political work experience includes stints at the Beijing office of KfW
Development Bank, at the US Congress in Washington DC, at the German Bundestag in
Berlin and Goldman Sachs in London.
Jörg DOERLER
Principal, Boston Consulting Group
Presenter: Working Group on Increased demand, lagging supply: Stateowned gas companies and the problem of underinvestment
Joerg Doerler is a Principal at The Boston Consulting Group’s Energy
Practice Area based in Frankfurt/Germany.
Mr. Doerler has 11 years of strategy and management consulting experience in the
global gas and energy industry. His areas of focus are Strategic Planning, Corporate
Strategy and M&A. Over the past years, Mr. Doerler has extensively worked with
leading international oil, gas and power companies in countries such as Russia, the UK
and Germany as well as Nigeria. Mr. Doerler has been particularly focusing on the
dynamics of the European gas market where he gained first hand experience by working
with leading suppliers to this market.
Mr. Doerler has gained significant expertise in working for National Oil Companies
(NOCs) advising them on topics such as impact of the liberalisation of the European gas
market, market design of domestic gas markets, gas export strategies, gas upstream
strategies as well as corporate governance and strategic planning.
Mr. Doerler frequently serves as expert adviser and is a frequent speaker at international
conferences with a focus on developments in the European gas industry.
Andreas DOMNICK
Consultant, Shell Global Solutions International BV
Andreas Domnick joined Shell Global Solutions in 2003. He has
worked on numerous Shell gas projects in Russia, Central Asia and
South-East Asia. His technical expertise is in the area of gas
processing, LNG and – in the last 2 years – GTL. Currently he is part
of Shell’s team working to deliver the world-scale Pearl GTL project in
Qatar.
In 2006, he presented a paper on the problem of LNG quality and interchangeability at
the International Gas Conference in Amsterdam, building on the work of an IGU
technical working group including EASEE-gas.
Born in Switzerland to German parents, he holds a MSc in Physics from Cambridge
University, UK. He is married and currently lives and works in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands.
Uwe FIP
Senior Vice President, Gas Supply Division East, E.ON Ruhrgas
Presenter: Working Group on At the intersection of demand: Regional suppliers
and competing consumers
Uwe Fip began working in the energy sector in 1987 with the German
affiliate of Mobil. After holding several positions with Mobil Oil AG,
Hamburg, he joined the Management Development Programme at Ruhrgas AG in 1992.
Later he worked in their Eastern Gas Purchase Department as their Head of Section for
Central Europe and Russia. In 1997, Uwe Fip served as the Vice President of Gas
Supply East, acting as the Key Account Manager of Gazprom export. In 2002, Uwe Fip
became the Senior Vice President of E.ON Ruhrgas AG’s Gas Supply Division East. A
position he currently holds.
Thomas GEISEL
Senior Vice President and Director, Gas Supplies North, E.ON Ruhrgas AG,
Berlin
Thomas Geisel is Senior Vice-President of E.ON Ruhrgas AG and
heads the Gas Supply Division North. Prior to this assignment he was
in charge of E.ON Ruhrgas' gas purchases from Germany and the
Netherlands.
Before joining E.ON Ruhrgas in 2000, he worked for Enron Europe. Between 1994 and
1998 he was Director at Treuhandanstalt responsible for the privatization of the East
German chemical industry.
Thomas Geisel holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University, an MA degree in Political Science from
Georgetown University and a law degree from Freiburg University.
Dr. Andreas GOLDTHAU
Assistant Professor, Central European University and Fellow, Global Public
Policy Institute
Moderator for panel on: The transatlantic agenda: Where do we go from
here?
Andreas Goldthau is an Assistant Professor with the Department of
Public Policy at Central European University, Hungary, where he also
heads the Energy Security Program at CEU’s newly created Center for Environment and
Security. Andreas Goldthau is also a Fellow of the Global Public Policy Institute.
Previously, he worked with the RAND Corporation in Washington DC as a
Transatlantic PostDoc Fellow in International Relations and Security. He was also an
Adjunct Professor with the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington
University, Washington DC. He also worked as a Research Fellow with the Institute for
East European Studies at the Free University of Berlin, as a Fulbright Senior Scholar
with the Elliott School of International Affairs (GWU), and as a Robert Bosch Visiting
Lecturer with Tyumen State University (Russia). He holds a joint graduate degree in
Political Science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and the Free University of
Berlin as well as a State Certificate in Russian language from Lomonossow University,
Moscow. He earned his Ph.D from the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on
Russia's transition towards market economy.
Andreas Goldthau’s recent articles and contributions include Rhetoric versus reality.
Russian threats to European energy supply (Energy Policy, Vol. 36, 2008), Rethinking Energy
Inc., forthcoming in Policy Review, and Domestic trends in China, Iran Russia and the US:
Implications on Navy's strategic planning (RAND Monograph, 2008, forthcoming). He is
also a lead researcher for GPPi's "Changing rules of the game: Global energy governance
in the 21st century" research program.
Oliver HAACK
Global Energy Institute Berlin gGmbH i.Gr
Oliver Haack represents Global Energy Institute Berlin gGmbH i.Gr.,
a non-profit company supporting the establishment of a private
energy university in Berlin – the Global Energy Institute Berlin, which
will include three schools, a think tank, and an academy for executive
education. Previously, he worked in the German Bundestag, for the
Koerber-Foundation, and the ZEIT-Foundation. From 2006 to 2008, he served as
political advisor in the U.S. Embassy Berlin where he covered all aspects of German
foreign policy and relations with the European Union.
Oliver Haack holds a Master’s Degree in American Studies from the University of
Munich as well as an M.A. in Political Science from Wayne State University, Detroit,
MI.
Enno HARKS
Political Adviser, BP Germany
Enno Harks is a Political Adviser for British Petroleum, Berlin. Prior
to this, he was a Senior Expert on Energy and Resources at the
German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), an
advisory body attached to the Chancellor’s Office where he focused
on market analysis and policy advice to clients from government and
ministries. He is additionally a regular commentator in the media. Prior to that, Mr.
Harks served several years as Energy Analyst at the International Energy Agency in
Paris in the department for oil markets and emergency issues.
Mr. Harks studied in Germany and France and holds a master degree in quantitative
economics from the University of Munich.
Arna HARTMANN
Adjunct Professor at Free University Berlin and Consultant
Detlev HARTMANN
CEO of ENERTRAG Structured Finance AG
After studies in Economics and Business Administration, Detlev
Hartmann obtained a post graduate degree from the French Grande
Ecole ESCP-EAP. His professional career spans 25 years mostly spent
in the capital markets and corporate finance sector concentrating on
quantitative risk management of credit, interest, liquidity, and energy
price risk. As CEO of ENERTRAG Structured Finance AG, his prime responsibility is
to fund the growth of ENERTRAG’s development and generation portfolio, and to
manage the group’s energy and commodity price risk exposure. Structured Finance is
one of the group’s value drivers. The mission statement of ENERTRAG’s Berlin-based
corporate finance subsidiary is to add value to energy ventures on the Buy- as well as the
Sell-side through advanced structuring and the application of portfolio immunisation
strategies.
Alan HEGBURG
Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Energy Policy, US Department
of Energy
Panelist on Diversification and security of supply in a global gas market: The
transatlantic agenda
Alan Hegburg is a Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Energy Policy. His
policy and management responsibilities cover international energy issues in the Middle
East, Russia and the Caspian, and Africa as well as functional areas such as energy
security and markets.
Mr. Hegburg spent 17 years in management positions in three international, integrated
oil companies. He represented one company on the Council on Foreign Relations
Middle East Task Force. In addition he served 17 years in the public sector, including
service in the U.S. Navy as well as management positions in the Departments of Energy
and State, the latter as a career diplomat.
Most recently he was affiliated with The Scowcroft Group and the Center for Strategic
and International Studies (CSIS) where he provided oil and gas consulting services. He
taught graduate energy courses at the George Washington University and at the School
of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is a graduate from the
University of Illinois with a Master’s Degree from the Johns Hopkins University’s
School of Advanced International Studies.
Helmut HERMELING
Oil and Gas Expert, General Electric International, Germany
Heinrich HICK
Policy Officer, The European Commission, DG TREN
Panelist on Diversification and security of supply in a global gas market: The
transatlantic agenda
Heinrich HICK is working as policy officer with the European
Commission, Directorate General TREN, within the unit C.2
"Electricity & Gas". Prior to this appointment he has been involved in the negotiations
on the international fusion energy research project ITER. He was also working
as negotiator at the WTO negotiating team of the European Commission within the
framework of the WTO Doha Trade negotiations. Prior to joining the European
Commission Mr. Hick has been working in the private sector as energy market analyst
with a German energy company.
Dr. Jörg HIMMELREICH
Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States,
Berlin
Jörg Himmelreich joined the German Marshall Fund as a senior
transatlantic fellow to examine U.S., EU, and Russian policy toward
the Caucasus and opportunities for U.S.–European cooperation in
the greater Black Sea region. He will also look at energy security
issues and wider transatlantic relations.
Dr. Himmelreich comes to GMF from the German Foreign Office, where he served as a
policy planner in 2004. In the year prior, he worked with the DaimlerChrysler Board of
Management. He previously served as director of investment banking for media for the
London office of European commercial bank WestLB, having established and directed
the bank’s Moscow subsidiary from 1996 to 2000. Dr. Himmelreich has also held
appointments as head of privatization of the construction industry at the Federal
German Trust Agency, as a junior professor at the Institute for Public Law at the Free
University of Berlin, and as an assistant to the Berlin Court of Appeals. Dr. Himmelreich
holds the German law degree of Dr. jur. and has studied law, history, and political
science at the universities of Freiburg, Bonn and the London School of Economics.
Jens HOBOHM
Research Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
(SWP)
Presenter: Working Group on Disruption drivers and methods of mitigation
Jens Hobohm, Industrial Engineer, is a 2008 Research Fellow at the
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP, German Institute of
International and Security Affairs) responsible for “Global issues of energy politics and
security of supply”. He is currently doing research on oil and gas markets and what the
role of natural gas could be in reaching Europe’s ambitious emission targets by 2020
without losing sight of the diverse aspects of the security of supply. Prior to this, he
worked for 12 years at Prognos AG’s Berlin office, a research-based consulting company
with its head office in Basel, Switzerland. Prognos has worked on many long-term
energy forecasts and other studies for the German and Swiss governments. At Prognos,
Jens Hobohm was responsible for private energy and water utilities and provided basic
studies and expert opinions regarding future energy and water demand and supply,
economic and ecological evaluations of power plants, and price forecasts for the various
fuels. He will return to Prognos in 2009.
Ben HOLLINS
Head of European Gas and Power Consulting, Wood Mackenzie
Panelist on Towards a global market for gas? Current trends, expectations
and implications for governance and Presenter for Working Group on
Storage capacity and strategic gas stocks
Ben joined Wood Mackenzie in 1995 and is Head of Wood
Mackenzie’s European gas and power consultancy practice. Ben has considerable
experience of strategic and project advisory assignments throughout the gas value chain
relating to both natural gas and LNG. He has managed assignments for companies as
well as governmental bodies with particular experience of markets at various stages of
liberalization such as Europe, Australia and the Americas.
Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Ben worked in strategic planning for a UK regional
electricity company with specific involvement in the development of a gas supply
company and an investment program in gas-fired power generation, throughout the
formative years of the competitive UK gas market. Ben graduated from Oxford
University with a BA Honors degree in Natural Sciences in 1988 and holds a subsequent
MBA from Imperial College, London.
Wade HOXTELL
Research Associate, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
Moderator for panel on: The politicization of gas: Implications for security of
supply and the development of a global gas market
Wade Hoxtell is a Research Associate with the Global Public Policy
Institute (GPPi), Berlin. His research interests include public-private
partnerships, corporate social responsibility and global energy governance. He currently
is a member of GPPi’s research program “Changing rules of the game: Global energy
governance in the 21st century” and organizes the “Transatlantic Energy Security
Dialogues” conference series. Wade holds a B.A. in International Relations and German
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. in Central and Eastern
European Studies from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
From 2001-2002 he studied a year at the University of Bonn. Before joining the Global
Public Policy Institute in May 2006, he was a project assistant with the Aspen Institute
Berlin. From 2003-2004 he worked as a legislative aide in the Wisconsin State Senate.
Dr. Jörg JASPER
Senior Economist, EnBW AG
Jörg Jasper holds a degree in economics from the University of
Hannover. His background includes research stays in Russia
(scholarship of the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation) and China. He
completed his dissertation in 1998 with a scholarship from the
Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation. He worked as a scientific assistant at the Institute of
Microeconomics at the University of Hannover, earned his postdoctoral qualification
(habilitation) in economics (“Cooperative behavior in companies, competition and
innovation”) in 2004. From April 2004 until March 2006, he served as a researcher and
lecturer at the Institute of Microeconomics at University of Hannover. His main research
fields include: industrial organization, especially economics of innovation and regulation
and environmental economics.
In April 2006, he joined EnBW AG as a Senior Economist where he works presently.
His main fields of activity include: grid regulation, competition and prices in energy
markets, carbon markets and European market regulation.
He has published on various topics including regulation, environmental economics,
competition, innovation economics, and health economics. He lecturers on Energy
Economics at the Universities of Hannover and Marburg.
Dr. Birte Holst JORGENSEN
Managing Director, Nordic Energy Research
Since September 2005, Birte Holst Jørgensen has been the Managing
Director of Nordic Energy Research, a 20 year old Nordic research
funding institution under the Nordic Council of Ministers
(www.nordicenergy.net). She holds a M.Sc. in Business Economics from
Copenhagen Business School and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of
Copenhagen. She is an acknowledged expert and reviewer at the EU Commission and
several Nordic research councils and research funding institutions.
Prior to her affiliation at Nordic Energy Research, she was a senior scientist at the
Systems Analysis Department at Risø National Laboratory in Denmark. Her research
focused on science and innovation policies as well as R&D priority setting and
evaluation, in particular in energy. Her working experience also include assignments in
private and public consultancy companies in the field of business and industry analysis,
regional development and evaluation of public support programs.
Frederic KALINKE
Student, University of Oxford
Rapporteur
Frederic Kalinke is currently reading an MPhil in International
Relations at the University of Oxford and has recently completed a BA
in PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) at the University of York,
UK, and was awarded the 2007 Ede and Ravenscroft Prize for academic and extracurricular achievement. He is also founder of an academic journal that fosters
interdisciplinary thinking and co-founder of a social enterprise that develops digital
educational tools.
Frederic Kalinke was an intern with GPPi during July 2008. During this time, Frederic
supported GPPi’s work on global energy governance in the context of the “Changing
Rules of the Game” project. His research interests lie in US foreign policy, the
international architecture governing energy and the political economy of International
Relations.
Ingrid KOLLIST
Economic Counselor, US Embassy, Berlin
Ingrid Kollist, a career foreign service officer, took up her duties as Economic Counselor
at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin in August 2007. Amongst the issues her section follows is
energy security.
Ms. Kollist’s foreign service career has focused on the Nordic/Baltic region. Prior to her
assignment to Berlin, Ms. Kollist headed the Economic Sections at the U.S. Embassies
in Stockholm and Helsinki. Other assignments have included Desk Officer for Norway
and Denmark (1995-1997) and Economic Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Tallinn (19921995). Ms. Kollist was one of five officers sent by the Department of State to open the
U.S. mission in Tallinn in the fall of 1991.
She has also served in the Office of Investment Affairs and the Office of Aviation Policy
at the Department of State prior to her assignments to the Nordic/Baltic region and has
worked in the European division of USTR.
Before joining the State Department, Ms. Kollist worked as a policy analyst in the
telecommunications industry. She holds a M.A. Degree from the Johns Hopkins School
of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in Political Science from Vassar College.
Dr. Heinrich KREFT
Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, CDU-CSU Parliamentary Group, German
Bundestag
Dr. Kreft is a Career Diplomat currently acting as Senior Foreign
Policy Advisor to the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the
German Bundestag. Prior to this post, he was Senior Strategic Analyst
and Deputy Head of the Policy Planning Staff of the German Foreign
Ministry in Berlin (2004-2006). As a diplomat, he has been stationed, among others, in
Tokyo (1991-1994) and in Washington D.C. (2001-2004). From 1996 to 2001 he served
on the Foreign Policy Planning Staff in charge of the Americas, Asia and Economic
Issues.
He has also served as a Visiting Fellow at The Henry L Stimson Center (July-December
2001), at the Heritage Foundation (January – March 2002) and the Woodrow Wilson
Center (April – June 2002) in Washington, D.C. Throughout his career he has had
numerous publications on political and economic relations; international security; as
well as European, American and Asian political and economic affairs. He is also a
lecturer on International Politics and a member of the German Council on Foreign
Relations.
Daniel KROOS
International Consultant on Energy Issues, World Bank
Daniel Kroos currently serves as an International Consultant on Energy Issues for the
World Bank. He was a Robert Bosch Fellow in the Postgraduate Programme in
International Relations of the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Studienstiftung des
deutschen Volkes in cooperation with the German Federal Foreign Ministry, where he
worked on a project on the prospects of a common external energy policy for Europe.
Within the programme, Daniel Kroos has worked at the Policy Planning Unit of the
German Foreign Ministry in Berlin and has also worked with the European
Commission, Unit C1 “Energy Policy and Security of Supply” within the Directorate
General for Energy and Transport in Brussels.
Dr. Joachim LANG
Director, Berlin Represenation, E.ON AG
Welcoming Speaker
Dr. Joachim Lang has been director of the E.ON AG Representation in Berlin since 1
October 2007. In this role, he coordinates contact with the German government.
Prior to this, he was Head of Division in the German Federal Chancellery for the
coordination of European Policy focusing on themes such as financial policy in the
European Union and Eurozone policy. Prior to this, he was employed with the
CDU/CSU government faction.
Dr. Lang received his doctorate in law from the University of Münster.
Jamie MANZER
Research Assistant, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
Rapporteur
Jamie Manzer is a Research Assistant with the Global Public Policy
Institute, Berlin. She is currently a Master of Public Policy Fellow at
the Hertie School of Governance where she works as a research
assistant for Professor Kai Wegrich. Her research interests include energy security
policy, the renewable energies market, and sustainable public health and welfare policy.
Prior to her work with GPPi, Jamie worked with the European Center for Constitutional
and Human Rights, Berlin on several research projects. Previously, Jamie served in the
United States as an associate community organizer for the Direct Action Research
Institute and for the Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement. She also worked
with the Democratic Party, House of Representatives on welfare and citizen rights
reform legislation.
Jamie holds a BA in Anthropology with distinction from Colby College in Waterville,
United States.
Dr. Christoph MEIER
Head, Strategy Department, MVV Energie AG
Dr. Christoph Meier is head of the strategy department of MVV Energie AG. With a
turnover of more than EUR2 billion and an EBIT of more then EUR200 million it is one
of the largest municipal utilities in Germany - and the sole with a listing at the
stockmarket. Besides its German network of municipal utilities it is one of the largest
owners of waste-to-energy plants and provider of energy services in Germany.
Previously, Dr. Meier worked for the energy practice of the Boston Consulting Group as
Principal. He graduated from the John F. Kennedy School of the Harvard University as
Master of Public Administration and in Business Administration from the Catholic
University of Eichstätt. His Ph.D compares different approaches to self-regulation
in infrastructure industries like power, gas, telecommunication and railroads.
Werner NOWAK
Head of the Energy Industry Section, E.ON Ruhrgas AG
After studying economics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Werner
Nowak worked as an Officer in the Energy Department of Rheinisch
Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), Essen. In
1977, he took a position with Ruhrgas AG, now E.ON Rurgas AG
and presently serves as Head of the Energy Industry Section.
Dr. Joachim PFEIFFER
Member of the German Parliament, CDU-CSU
Dr. Joachim Pfeiffer has been a Member of the Bundestag (Lower
House of German Parliament) and the Co-ordinator of Energy Matters
of the CDU-CSU fraction since 2002. Prior to this, he was Director of
Economic Development for the city of Stuttgart. In 1997, he obtained
his Ph.D from the University of Stuttgart.
Dr. Gerrit RIEMER
Vice President, Power & Gas II - Security of Supply, Nuclear, Economic and Public Affairs, E.ON
Dr. Sanam SALEM HAGHIGHI
Supply and Trading Department, ECONGAS
Dr. Sanam S. Haghighi obtained her Ph.D from the law department of
the European University Institute in the field of energy security and
EU external relations. She was previously educated at McGill
University and New York University where she concentrated on
international business law and comparative jurisprudence. She acted for two years as a
consultant for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) where she
assisted the organization in analyzing energy-related international policies in general and
the WTO and EU policies in particular. She was also a research assistant of Prof.
Giacomo Luciani at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) where
she contributed to the EUROGULF Project by undertaking the analysis of the relevance
of the Energy Charter Treaty for the countries of the GCC. She has also published
articles on domestic energy pricing and the law of the WTO, on the Energy Charter
Treaty, on energy competencies within the EU, and on oil stock piling within the EU
and the IEA frameworks. Her book entitled "Energy Security: the External Legal
Relations of the European Union with Major Oil and Gas Producing Countries" was
published by Hart publishing in August 2007. She currently works at the 'supply and
trading' department of ECONGAS in Vienna focusing on LNG projects.
Paul SAUNDERS
Executive Director, The Nixon Center
Panelist on Diversification and security of supply in a global gas market: The
transatlantic agenda
Paul J. Saunders is Executive Director of The Nixon Center. In
addition to being the Center’s chief operating officer, he directs its
U.S. - Russian Relations Program and works on other issues,
including energy and climate change, U.S. - European relations, and the role of
democracy in U.S. foreign policy. He is also Associate Publisher of the foreign policy
magazine, The National Interest, published bi-monthly by The Nixon Center, and
Publisher of National Interest online.
Mr. Saunders served in the Bush Administration from 2003 – 2005 as Senior Advisor to
the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs. In that capacity, he worked on a broad
range of transnational issues, in particular with respect to Russia, Ukraine, the former
Soviet Union, as well as Iraq, China and India.
Mr. Saunders served as Director of The Nixon Center from 1997 – 2003, and was
Assistant Director of the Center from its founding in 1994 until 1997. In 2000, he was a
Senior Policy Advisor to the Speaker’s Advisory Group on Russia, established by the
Republican Policy Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He has written
extensively for major newspapers and journals, and is a frequent commentator in
national media, including CNN, Fox, and MSNBC. Mr. Saunders is the author of
Russian Energy and European Security, Common Challenges: A U.S.-EuropeanJapanese Dialogue on Energy Security and Climate Change, and America, Russia and
the Greater Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities (with Nixon Center Program
Director Geoffrey Kemp).
Dr. Miranda SCHREURS
Director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre and Professor of
Comparative Politics at Free University, Berlin
Miranda Schreurs is director of the Environmental Policy Research
Centre and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Free University of
Berlin. Prior to this she was Associate Professor in the Department of
Government and Politics, University of Maryland. Schreurs’ work
focuses on comparative environmental and energy politics and policy. She was born and
raised in the United States and has also lived for extended periods in Japan and
Germany and briefly in the Netherlands. Her PhD is from the University of Michigan
and her MA and BA from the University of Washington. She has held fellowships from
the SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Program on International Peace and Security Affairs,
the Fulbright Foundation (Japan and Germany), and the National Science
Foundation/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Her co-edited manuscript, Enlarging Transatlantic Relations: Environmental and Energy
Politics Across the Atlantic is currently under review. Her books/edited books include
Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement (Scarecrow Press 2007); The
Environmental Dimensions of Asian Security: Cooperation and Conflict over Pollution,
Energy, and Resources (United States Institute of Peace Press 2007); Environmental
Policy in Japan (Edward Elgar 2005); Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and
the United States; The Internationalization of Environmental Protection; and Ecological
Security in Northeast Asia (Yonsei University Press 1998).
Horst SCHUMACHER
German Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology (BMWi)
Daniel SIMMONS
Gas and Oil Market Originator, EDF Trading
Panelist on The politicization of gas: Implications for security of supply and the
development of a global gas market
Mr Simmons currently works as a gas and oil market originator for
EDF Trading with a focus on Western Europe. Within this role, he is
involved in structured pipeline and LNG market transactions on behalf of the EdF
Group. He also advises on group gas strategy.
Daniel returned to EdF Trading after a 3 year spell at the International Energy Agency
as a global natural gas market analyst. At the agency, he was a principal author of the
2006 and 2007 editions of the IEA’s World “Natural Gas Market Review” as well as
contributing to several energy policy reviews and a paper entitled, “Development of
Competitive Gas Trading in Continental Europe”.
Daniel joined the IEA from EDF Trading where he worked on gas, oil and structured
risk management, he also held roles in Enron in London and has also worked in
banking.
Mr Simmons holds a Masters degree in Chemistry from the University of Durham
(England), and is also a Chartered Management Accountant.
Dr. Jonathan STERN
Director of Gas Research, Oxford Energy Institute for Energy Studies
Panelist on A New Silk Road? The Caspian Sea and European Energy Security
Jonathan Stern is the Director of Gas Research at the Oxford Institute
for Energy Studies. He also serves as an Honorary Professor with the
Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the
University of Dundee, a post he has held since 2003. As of 2002, Dr. Stern has and
continues to serve as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Environmental Science
and Technology at the Imperial College, London. Dr. Stern has held several posts at the
Royal Institute of International Affairs. Most recently (1992-2007) he was an Associate
Fellow with the Institute’s Sustainable Development Programme and also the Head of
the Energy and Environmental Programme (1985-1992). Jonathan Stern served as the
Director of Studies for the Royal Institute of International Affairs from 1990-1991.
Dr. Jonathan Stern’s key areas of expertise, many of which he has recently published on,
include natural gas issues worldwide: development, trade, liberalisation, regulation and
security; utility policy, deregulation and liberalisation; and Russian and CIS energy and
climate change issues.
Christof VAN AGT
Advisor, Caspian Affairs and Central Asia, International Energy Agency
Panelist on A New Silk Road? The Caspian Sea and European Energy Security
From 2001 to 2007 Mr. Van Agt worked for the International Energy Agency in the
Office for Global Energy Dialogue in Paris where he served as the administrator for
Countries of the Caspian Sea Region and Central Asia. He managed IEA relations with
Caspian and Central Asian States and the Agency’s permanent policy dialogue on
energy market and investment climate development with this important region. He
continues as an IEA advisor on Caspian affairs and manages a Eurasia oil and gas
advisory service.
From 1998 to 2001 Mr. Van Agt worked in the Secretariat of the Energy Charter
Conference in Brussels at the Directorate for Transit and Trade. He co-authored a report
on transit for the G8 Energy Ministers Meeting of April 1998 in Moscow and assisted in
negotiations on the Energy Charter Protocol on Transit and Model Agreements for
Cross Border Pipelines in 1999. From 1996 to 1998 he worked for the European
Commissions Directorate General for Foreign Economic Relations and Common
Security Policy on energy related assistance projects in Central Asia and the Caucasus
including cooperation on interstate oil and gas transport networks.
From 1991 to 1996 Mr. Van Agt worked for the International Institute for Energy Law
at the Faculty of Public International Law of the University of Leiden on economic and
legal reform in the Newly Independent States (NIS) for international organizations and
financial institutions. For the Energy Charter process Mr. Van Agt coordinated
conferences in all NIS and several Central European Countries with the Centre for
Energy Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy at the University of Dundee Scotland next
to various law and consultancy firms.
He studied Slavonic Languages at the University of Leiden, the Herzen Institute in
Leningrad and Moscow and ‘sovietology’; multidisciplinary studies in Russian, law,
economy, history and political sciences at the University of Leiden, Faculty of Law from
1986 to 1991.
Dr. James VAUGHAN
General Manager, Technology and Environment, Sasol Chevron
Presenter: Working Group on Investing in clean gas: Gas to liquid and gas
hydrates
James Stuart Vaughan has recently been appointed as General
Manager Technology and Environment of Sasol Chevron, a Joint
Venture between the Sasol and Chevron companies formed to develop GTL technology
worldwide. He is based in London, at the head office of Sasol Chevron.
Dr. Vaughan, a UK citizen, started his career in Sasol in 1995 soon after completing his
PhD degree in chemical engineering at the University of Cape Town. During his career
he has been located in various divisions of Sasol, namely Sasol Technology and Sasol
Olefins and Surfactants and has spent a significant time outside of South Africa in
Munich and in Frankfurt, Germany.
In his career Dr. Vaughan has been involved in process engineering design and
management, technology management and R&D management. In these activities he
has built up substantial experience in the synthetic fuels industry and the chemical
industry. Prior to his appointment in Sasol Chevron Dr Vaughan was the R&D Director
and Technology Manager for Sasol Olefins and Surfactants.
Timo VEHRS
Deputy Head of Strategy, Gazprom Germania
In 2004, Timo Vehrs joined ZGG GmbH (predecessor of
GAZPROM Germania GmbH) as advisor in the strategic
department. Since 2007, he has worked as Deputy Head of Strategy
for GAZPROM Germania GmbH and is mainly engaged in Mergers & Acquisitions,
Business Development and Strategic Planning. Previously, he worked at
PriceWaterhouseCoopers Consulting and IBM Business Consulting Services as
Consultant for a period of three years mainly working on international business process
reengineering projects for major oil companies in Europe.
He graduated in Business Science and Management from Nordakademie, a private
university supported by industry, in 2001.
Marian WEIMANN
Research Assistant, Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin
Rapporteur
Marian Weimann is a Research Assistant with the Global Public
Policy Institute, Berlin. He is a postgraduate student in Political
Science and Business Informatics at the University of Potsdam and
the Free University Berlin. His research interests focus on
development and humanitarian aid, labour market policy and employment, and
international and comparative political economy.
Prior to joining GPPI in May 2008, he worked for the International Campaign to Ban
Landmines (ICBL) as well as for the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) on a
project evaluating labour market reforms in Germany.
Marian received his M.A. in Political Economy at the University of Essex in 2007,
where he wrote his thesis on “Government Spending in Developing
Countries: Trade Liberalisation, Organised Interests and Welfare Spending.”
Dr. Jochen WEISE
Member of the Executive Board, Gas Supply & Trading, E.ON Ruhrgas AG
Panelist on A New Silk Road? The Caspian Sea and European Energy Security
Dr. Jochen Weise joined Deutsche Shell AG in 1986. He held various
posts with Deutsche Shell, Shell Portuguesa, and Shell Direct until
2002 when he joined E.ON Ruhrgas AG as the Head of Gas Supply
Division. From 2003-2004 Dr. Weise served as the Executive Vice-President for Gas
Supply and Trading Division.
Jochen Weise is currently a member of the Executive Board for E.ON Ruhrgas AG, Gas
Supply and Trading.
Dr. Jan Martin WITTE
Associate Director, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
Welcoming Speaker and Moderator for panel on: Diversification and security of supply in a global
gas market: The transatlantic agenda
Jan Martin Witte is Associate Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi),
Berlin. Jan Martin’s work experience include consulting and research assignments at the
Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.), the Corporate Strategy Group of the World
Bank (Washington, D.C.), the Office of Development Studies of the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), and the Private Sector Partnership Unit of the
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), New York. From June 1999 to
June 2001 he served as a Research Associate with the Global Public Policy Project,
Washington D.C. Jan Martin has published widely on issues of global governance and
transatlantic relations. He is the project lead for GPPi’s “Changing Rules of the Game:
Global Energy Governance in the 21st Century” research program.
Jan Martin holds degrees from the University of Potsdam (Diploma in Political Science),
and received his M.A. and Ph.D in International Relations and International Economics
from the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University.
Alexander ZAFIRIOU
Economic and Public Affairs, Power & Gas II - Security of Supply, Nuclear, E.ON AG
Alexander Zafiriou works for the Economic and Public Affairs Division of E.ON AG.
Within the Corporate Center of the company he is focussing on security of supply issues.
Before joining E.ON AG he was senior adviser for the German Electricity Association
(VDEW) in Berlin. Prior to that, he worked as a research fellow at the Institute of
Energy Economics and the Rational Use of Energy (IER) at the University of Stuttgart.
Alexander Zafiriou is a German and Greek national and holds a university degree in
mechanical engineering from Ruhr-University, Bochum.