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Jacques
LESOURNE

Jacques Lesourne was President of the Scientific Committee of the Center for Energy

Jacques Lesourne was an economist and an alumni of the Ecole Polytechnique in France. He has held numerous posts, beginning as the head of economic services at Charbonnages de France (1954-1957). He next served as the executive director of the Sema Group (1958-1975), before going on to become the director of the Interfutures Project with the OECD (1976- 1979). He was a professor of economics (1974-1998), while also serving as the head of the economic and business department at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (1974-1991).

He was furthermore the director of the newspaper Le Monde from 1991 to 1994. Notably, he has presided over the French Association of Economic Science (1981-1983) and the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) (1986-1989). He currently oversees the association Futuribles, the project FutuRIS, and the Scientific Committee of the Ifri Energy Program.

He has published thirty books on prospective studies and economics.

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Publications

The European Union : When the Commission and Governments put the Future of Electricity Producers at Stake

09 May 2016

RWE, EON, EDF, ENGIE and other large utilities are in financial turmoil. This situation, which would have been unlikely twenty years ago, is related to several failures in governance within the EU as well as to global evolutions. This Edito Energie analyses the situation of large European electricity producers in light of the European energy policy. 

 

Jacques LESOURNE
CHINESE CLIMATE POLICY - INSTITUTIONS AND INTENT

Chinese Climate Policy: Institutions and Intent

05 July 2011

Until the late 1990s, the balance of Chinese energy production and consumption was treated by the rest of the world as a net figure. No one knew what was going on inside the Chinese economy - it was a black box. As far as anyone was concerned, the Chinese would not soon be a major factor in world energy markets.

William C. RAMSAY Jacques LESOURNE

The European Commission Energy Green Paper: A Draft to Be Revised

26 March 2013

The European Commission has just made public a green paper devoted to its energy and climate policies until 2030.

Jacques LESOURNE

Fukushima and Democracy

09 May 2011

The double disaster of Fukushima, a natural disaster comprising an earthquake and a tsunami and a large-scale industrial nuclear disaster, behoves all countries to consider the lessons which they can draw from it.

Jacques LESOURNE

Energy Efficiency: The Commission's Complicated Calculations

08 March 2011

Who hasn’t heard of the 3x20, those pillars of European energy policy? And yet who is able to give their exact definition?

Jacques LESOURNE

Will there ever be a European Gas and Electricity Market ?

03 February 2011

A year ago, I would have responded to this question rather positively. Nowadays, I am not so sure. My relative optimism before was based on the replacement of a group of monopoly-holding (at least regionally) national operators, by an oligopoly of operators with a sizeable proportion of their activity outside of their countries of origin. These included EON, EdF, RWE, ENEL, GDFSuez, IBERDROLA, VATTENFALL and others.

Jacques LESOURNE

German Energy Policy

30 January 2011

On the 28th September 2010, Angela Merkel announced her government’s publication of an “energy concept” describing the target which the Federal Republic hoped to give itself regarding its energy consumption in 2050.

Jacques LESOURNE

Climate Change: When the Media Play the Role of Speculators

30 March 2010

Climate change, the risks it implies, the time horizons it imposes and the extent of possible consequences it threaten are exposing how the media deals with public issues.

Jacques LESOURNE
ENERGY IN INDIA's FUTURE : INSIGHTS
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