The event, attended by more than 400 professionals from energy and defence sectors, counted on the interventions of Antonio Brufau, President of Repsol; Miguel Antoñanzas, Chairman of Enerclub; Iñigo Díaz de Espada, Chairman of CECME; and Rafael Sánchez Ortega, Lieutenant General and Director of the Higher Center for National Defense Studies (CESEDEN).
The chapters of this sixth edition were:
- Introduction. Claudio Aranzadi
- Interview – Interview for the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol
- Geopolitics of Energy and Game Theory. Manuel Conthe
- Canada´s Role in Global Energy Markets. Jennifer Winter
- Geostrategy and Energy in the Gulf of Guinea. Emilio Sanchez de Rojas
- The Changing Context for the Geopolitics of Energy: A European View on How Climate Change Starts Affecting Energy Security. Christian Egenhofer & Milian Elkerbout
- Give Peace a Chance: New Opportunities in Saudi Arabia’s Geo-economy. Miguel Angel Lasheras
These topics were debated by a panel where the authors and its moderator, Claudio Aranzadi, the ex-Minister for Industry, intervened.
The day ended with a round table discussion with Claudio Aranzadi, Francisco José Dacoba, Brigadier General and Director of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies (IEEE), and Marta Camacho, Director of Institutional Relations for Spain and Europe at Repsol
The publication “Energy and Geostrategy 2019” is available in the Spanish version here: “Energía y Geoestrategia 2019” and in the English version here: “Energy and Geostrategy 2019“.
You can read the Program and the Press release here.
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