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Lucia Tian
Director, Advanced Energy Technologies.
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Teresa Ribera Rodríguez
Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition. Teresa Ribera Rodríguez has served as Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition at the European Commission since December 2024. Her previous government roles include Spain's Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge and State Secretary for Climate Change. Ms Ribera Rodríguez has also held senior roles at environment and sustainable development organisations around the world.
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Dave Turk
Former USA Deputy Secretary of Energy. Dave Turk joined the IEA in September 2016 and is currently the Acting Deputy Executive Director and Head of the Strategic Initiatives Office. He formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Climate and Technology at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he coordinated the Department’s international clean energy efforts. He also previously served as Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change at the U.S. Department of State, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Congressional Affairs at the U.S. National Security Council, and in various capacities in the U.S. Congress.
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Fatih Birol
Executive Director. As Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, Dr Fatih Birol (@fbirol) has positioned the IEA at the forefront of global efforts to advance a secure, affordable and sustainable energy system. Since taking office in 2015, he has modernised the Agency by broadening its energy security mandate beyond oil to include electricity, natural gas, renewables and critical minerals, strengthened the Agency's global leadership in clean energy transitions and expanded IEA membership to include major emerging countries. As a result, the IEA’s share of global energy demand coverage has increased from 40% to over 80%. He has also played a central role in the global response to major energy security emergencies, including those triggered by the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis.Dr Birol joined the IEA in 1995 and steadily rose through the ranks from junior analyst to Chief Economist, where he oversaw the flagship World Energy Outlook. Throug...
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Corine Nsangwe Businge
Energy Efficiency Policy Analyst.
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Dr Sultan Al Jaber
President-Designate for COP28. Dr Sultan Al Jaber is the President-Designate of COP28; the UAE’s Minister for Industry and Advanced Technology and Special Envoy for Climate; Chairman of Masdar; and Group CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC).
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Elizabeth Connelly
Energy Technology and Transport Analyst. Elizabeth Connelly leads the transport analysis within the Energy Technology Policy Division and coordinates the Global EV Outlook report series.
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Timur Gül
Chief Energy Technology Officer. Timur Gül, a German national, was appointed Chief Energy Technology Officer of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in October 2023. In this capacity, he oversees IEA analysis of innovative new and emerging clean energy technologies and their supply chains across a range of sectors. Mr. Gül is also Head of the Energy Technology Policy Division, with responsibility for the IEA’s flagship technology publication Energy Technology Perspectives, the IEA Energy Innovation Forum, the IEA’s Technology and Innovation Advisory Board as well as the IEA’s Technology Collaboration network.Having joined the IEA in 2009, Mr. Gül previously was a lead author of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook (WEO). Prior to his time at the IEA, he was a researcher at Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland.Timur Gül holds a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH) Zurich in Switzerland. He also holds a Master degree in Environmental Engineering from the Royal Institute...
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Tan See Leng
Minister for Manpower and Minister-in-Charge of Energy, Science and Technology.
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Jérôme Bilodeau
Senior Programme Manager - Energy Efficiency.
