Aurélie BROS
Associate Research Fellow at Russia/NIS Center 2015-2016
Research areas:
- EU-Ukraine Russia Energy dialogue
- Geopolitics of energy
- EU energy legislation
- Strategies of energy companies
Aurélie Bros is a Doctor of Geopolitics/Geography. She studied at the Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris and at the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. During the three years of her Ph.D. thesis, she worked successively for private companies, European institutions (e.g. European Commission), ministries and research centers throughout Europe.
The key role of Ukraine in the transportation of Russian gas and the underground gas storage facilities are a legacy of the Soviet era. From the mid-1990s onwards, Gazprom has repeatedly tried to control gas transit through Ukraine and other infrastructures from the Soviet era without success....
The construction of what is nowadays called European energy policy is an ongoing process that officially started with the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951, and has not yet been entirely finalized. It took several decades to move from a Community composed of six...