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Training
Building long-term partnerships with participating countries IEA training and capacity building The IEA has carried out training activities since its creation more than 50 years ago, starting with the Emergency Response Exercises (ERE) for its member countries to prepare them for oil supply disruptions. Over the decades, the scope for training has broadened to include energy statistics, modelling, technology, energy efficiency and renewable energy policies and subjects of similar intere...
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G20 International collaborations
A global forum of major economies The G20 is a global forum of major economies (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America) and the European Union. It was started as a meeting of Finance Ministers in 1999 but was later elevated to a Leader’s meeting at the Washington Summit in 2008. The G20 discusses and responds to cri...
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Manuals Data and statistics
IEA Guide to Reporting Energy Technology RD&D Budgets This manual was written by the IEA for experts who collect and issue national RD&D data and submit responses to IEA RD&D surveys; it is mainly intended as a reference document. Tracking Public Investment in Energy Technology Research: A Roadmap A wide range of countries make efforts to track their entire national public energy research, development and demonstration (RD&D) activity on an ongoing basis, also sharing the collected ...
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Membership
The IEA family is made up of 32 Member countries, 13 Association countries, and 6 Accession countries seeking IEA membership
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Strait of Hormuz Oil security and emergency response
Factsheet Last updated: February 2026 Overview The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow sea passage, separating the Arabian Peninsula and Iran, and connecting the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. At its narrowest point, the Strait is only 29 nautical miles wide (54 km) and it consists of 2-mile-wide navigable channels (3.7 km) for inbound and outbound shipping as well as a 2-mile-wide buffer zone. The Strait of Hormuz, through which an average of 20 million barrels per day (mb/d) ...
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Staff categories Careers
Official staff Opportunities are open to professionals who:are a national of an OECD member country (There may be be exemptions for specific programmes or hosted bodies in the Agency, referenced in the job description. Refer to Regulation 6 in the OECD Staff Regulations for more information.)are less than 67 years of ageare fluent in English with knowledge of or willingness to learn FrenchWe offer competitive salaries, and a wide-ranging benefits programme designed to provide financial stabilit...
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G7 International collaborations
An intergovernmental political forum of major industrialised economies IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol meets with world leaders at the 2022 G7 Summit in Elmau, Germany The Group of Seven (G7) is an informal group of democratic advanced economies -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States -- that have met regularly since the 1970s energy crises to coordinate policies on global issues such as trade, security, energy and climate change.The rotating presid...
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Questionnaires Data and statistics
Contacts General inquiriesstats@iea.orgAnnual questionnairesCoal, renewables, electricity and heat, oil, gas and hydrogen statistics Overall responsibility: Ms Zuzana Dobrotková - zuzana.dobrotkova@iea.orgCoal - coalAQ@iea.orgElectricity & Heat - eleAQ@iea.orgRenewables – renewAQ@iea.orgOil - oilAQ@iea.orgGas - gasAQ@iea.orgHydrogen - H2AQ@iea.orgEnd-use data and energy efficiency indicators, National projections, Energy technology RD&DOverall responsibility: Ms Rober...
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African Union International collaborations
Promoting the socio-economic development of Africa The African Union (AU), created in 2002, consists of 55 African member states. It aims to promote the socio-economic development of Africa and address the challenges posed by globalization.Based on a history of collaboration, the IEA and the AU agreed in 2018 to a strategic partnership towards a more secure, sustainable and clean energy future for countries across the African continent through a memorandum of understanding. Eradic...
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ASEAN International collaborations
Association of Southeast Asian Nations The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional intergovernmental association comprising Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.In 2011, the IEA and ASEAN formally recognised their ongoing co-operation in energy-related activities by signing a Memorandum of Understanding focused on information-sharing, training and capacity-building on key energy prio...