Marie-Claire AOUN
Director, Center for Energy
Marie-Claire AOUN is director of the Center for Energy at the French Institute for International Relations (Ifri) and lecturer at Paris Dauphine University.
She began her carrier in the energy sector in 2004 at the Center for Geopolitics of Energy and Raw Materials (CGEMP) at Paris Dauphine University. She holds a PhD in Economics from the same university and is the author of a thesis on the oil rent and the economic development of oil exporting countries.
Between 2008 and beginning 2014, she served as Economist for the French energy regulator (Commission de Régulation de l’Energie), where she contributed to the elaboration of key policy documents on the European gas markets and the implementation of the third energy legislative package. She worked on gas transmission capacity allocation mechanisms, investments in gas infrastructures, transmission tariffs structures and the congestion management procedures in the European gas transmission pipelines.
She speaks fluently French, Arabic and English.
Her current research areas focus on geopolitics of energy and climate, the oil and gas markets, the EU energy security and the energy policies of hydrocarbons producing countries.
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From 2014 to 2015, the price of oil fell.
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Editor: Deborah Sherwood, published by Cligendael International Energy Program (CIEP) and Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri)
Editor: Deborah Sherwood, published by Institut francais des relations internationales (Ifri)
Editor: Deborah Sherwood, published by Clingendael International Energy Program (CIEP) and Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri)
OPEC will not cut the output production target at the next meeting on Dec. 4 because the goal to defend its market share has not been reached yet, Director of Center for Energy in French Institute of international Relations (IFRI) Marie-Claire Aoun believes.
...OAO Gazprom, the biggest natural gas producer, will probably see lower gains in Europe for at least four years as weaker oil prices and rising competition threaten to further cut its profits, a government forecast showed.
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