The outlook for global energy markets and implications for energy security, competitiveness, and sustainability
Please join the MIT Energy Initiative as we welcome Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency.
Current global energy markets face rapid policy shifts, market volatility, and geopolitical strains. Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency will provide an overview of today’s energy market and examine potential outlooks for the future of the global energy system, highlighting how different policy, investment, and technology choices are set to shape outcomes for energy security, economic competitiveness, and sustainability. Birol will spotlight the central role of technology development and innovation in determining the direction and performance of the global energy system. He will also cover turmoil in oil/LNG market due to current conflict in Middle East.
The seminar will include a conversation with MITEI Director William Green.
This event is for the MIT Community. Please register with an MIT.edu email address. Advance registration is strongly encouraged.
About the speaker
Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, has positioned the Agency at the center of global efforts for secure, affordable, and sustainable energy. He led the Agency’s first major modernization since 1974, expanding its mandate beyond oil to electricity, gas, renewables, and critical minerals, strengthening its technology leadership and engagement with emerging economies. These reforms expanded IEA share of global energy consumption from 40% to over 80%. Joining the IEA in the mid 1990s, he rose from analyst to chief economist, overseeing the World Energy Outlook, and has long championed energy access and clean cooking, particularly in Africa. He has been recognized in the TIME100 list of the world’s most influential figures and received the French Legion of Honour and Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun, among many other honors.