Maïté de BONCOURT
Research Fellow at the Ifri Center for Energy from 2010 to 2014 and Associate Researcher from 2014 to 2016
Research Areas:
- Conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons
- Geopolitics of Energy
- Downstream oil & transport
- Middle East
Maïté de Boncourt focuses on hydrocarbon research and also on Middle East, the Gulf and Mediterranean, and extensively covers the region’s hydrocarbons and renewable developments, energy governance and geopolitics. As part of this research axis, she currently focuses on eastern Mediterranean new resources, the shift of power for traditional oil and gas producers in the region, and ongoing energy reforms.
Before joining Ifri's Centre for Energy in February 2010, Maïté de Boncourt worked as lobbyist and policy analyst for a major IOC in Brussels, covering European energy policies. She also worked for the European Commission’s Delegation in Syria, Damascus. She started at Ifri's Brussels office, where she covered european energy policies.
Her work at Ifri now focuses on oil and gas markets, including the development of unconventional hydrocarbons, downstream oil developments such as refining, energy geopolitics and transportation. She specifically focuses on Middle Eastand Mediterranean, and extensively covers the region’s hydrocarbons and renewable developments, energy governance and geopolitics.
In 2012, she was teaching european energy policy at Science Po Paris, and she is now occasionally giving lectures on the geopolitics of energy.
Maïté holds a Master’s degree in European Affairs from the College of Europe (Bruges), a Master’s degree in Public Management from the Katholieke Universteit Leuven, and a Master’s degree in Contemporary History from the Sorbonne (Paris). She is fluent in both English and French.
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