Meeting Details
 
 
Energy Insecurity
Thursday 19th Apr 2007

Speakers were:

  1. John Mitchell, an Associate Research fellow at Chatham House and Research Adviser at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies.
  2. Tera Allas, Director of Energy Market Economics, Energy Markets Unit, Department of Trade and Industry. Download her Energy Insecurity presentation (644 kB PDF download).
  3. Pierre Noel, of the Electricity Policy Research Group at the Cambridge Judge Institute and formerly of the French Institute of International Relations. Download his Oil & Gas in the European Energy (In)Security Policy Debate presentation (131 kB PDF download).
John Mitchell is an Associate Research fellow at Chatham House and Research Adviser at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies. His publications include New Era for Oil Prices (Chatham House Report, August 2006);The Economic Challenge [to National Oil companies] Chapter in Oil Titans by Valerie Marcel, (Brookings/Chatham House, 2006) and ( from Chatham House)The Changing Geopolitics of Energy, 2003; The New Economy of Oil, 2001; Companies in a World of Conflict (editor), 1998; The New Geopolitics of Energy 1996.
John retired in 1993 from British Petroleum where his posts included Special Adviser to the Managing Directors, Regional Co-ordinator for BP’s subsidiaries in the Western Hemisphere, and head of BP’s Policy Review Unit. In 1976 he was an academic visitor in the faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge.

Tera Allas, Director of Energy Market Economics, Energy Markets Unit, Department of Trade and Industry.
Tera joined the DTI in May 2004 to take up a newly created post of Director of Energy Market Economics. As the senior economist in the Energy Group, Tera’s role is to lead the Department’s work on economic advice to underpin energy policy development. Tera’s work has concentrated in the areas of competitive markets and security of supply, with a focus on investment and price dynamics in UK and global energy markets. Tera has been heavily involved in the UK Government’s recent Energy Review.
Prior to joining the DTI, Tera worked for 10 years as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, with a primary focus on corporate and business unit strategy in commodity industries. In the last 4 years, Tera also acted as McKinsey’s senior expert on the power and gas sector and regulatory strategy in Europe. Tera holds a M.Sc. in Technology (with distinction) from Helsinki University of Technology and an M.B.A. (with distinction) from INSEAD.


    Light refreshments were provided before and a buffet meal with wine after the event. Attendance was free, but registration was required.



    The meeting was held in central Cambridge on the Sidgwick Avenue / West Road site with registration at 16:30 and the talks beginning at 17:00.

     

     
     
     
     
     
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