Prénom de l'expert

Marc-Antoine

Nom de l'expert

EYL-MAZZEGA

Director, Center for Energy & Climate, Ifri

Research Areas:

The European Green Deal, the European Union and its Member Countries
Low Carbon Technologies & Solutions
Oil and Gas Markets, Producers and Rentier States
International Oil Companies and National Oil Companies

Center for Energy & Climate

Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega joined Ifri's Center for Energy & Climate as a Director in September 2017.

Prior to joining IFRI, he spent six years at the International Energy Agency (IEA), notably as Russia & Sub-Saharan Africa Programme Manager where he conducted oil and gas market analyses and was responsible for institutional relations with these countries and regions. He also held other various positions, such as at the Robert Schuman Foundation, where he was in charge of the Ukraine observatory.

A French and German national, he holds a Ph.D. from Sciences Po Paris in international relations.

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The EU Green Deal External Impacts: Views from China, India, South Africa, Türkiye and the United States

29 May 2024

Ahead of June 2024 European elections and against the backdrop of growing geopolitical and geoeconomic frictions, if not tensions, between the EU and some of its largest trade partners, not least based on the external impacts of the European Green Deal (EGD), Ifri chose to collect views and analyses from leading experts from China, India, South Africa, Türkiye and the United States of America (US) on how they assess bilateral relations in the field of energy and climate, and what issues and opportunities they envisage going forward.

Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA Diana-Paula GHERASIM Kevin TU Thibault DENAMIEL Narendra TANEJA Gaylor MONTMASSON-CLAIR Fatin DURUKAN

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Battery Gigafactory at Billy Berclau - France

How to Meet the Industrial Challenge of Electric Mobility in France and in Europe

08 November 2023

The deployment at scale of electric mobility in France and in Europe withholds significant industrial, societal, geopolitical, and financial challenges, against the backdrop of strategic dependencies along the value chain of the electric vehicle (EV).

Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA Diana-Paula GHERASIM Clémentine VANNIER Adam CONTU

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A framework for a Win-Win Europe-Africa Energy and Climate Partnership

04 July 2023

North-South tensions are exacerbated at a time of unprecedented turmoil for both Europeans and Africans. European polycrises (geopolitical, energy-related and economic) echo the systematic vulnerability of Africans, which is reinforced by external shocks.

Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA

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China/United States: Europe off Balance

01 April 2023

As French President Emmanuel Macron (accompanied by Ursula von der Leyen) is on a state visit to China, some twenty Ifri researchers decipher the stakes of the U.S./China/Europe strategic triangle.

Thomas GOMART Marc HECKER Alain ANTIL Jérémy BACHELIER Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA Diana-Paula GHERASIM Marc JULIENNE Tatiana KASTOUÉVA-JEAN Éric-André MARTIN Laurence NARDON Françoise NICOLAS Céline PAJON Alice PANNIER Isabelle SAINT-MEZARD Jean-Loup SAMAAN John SEAMAN Élie TENENBAUM Mathilde VELLIET

Memos

The European Green Deal Three Years On: Acceleration, Erosion, Fragmentation?

14 November 2022

The European Green Deal (EGD) is the single most defining policy initiative of the von der Leyen Commission. Since its publication in December 2019, it has become the European Union’s (EU) new raison d’être: protecting the planet and Europeans from environmental degradation, through a holistic approach to the energy transition, while promoting sustainable growth and a just transition with no social group or territory left behind.

Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA Diana-Paula GHERASIM

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View of the Dubai water desalination plant

The Geopolitics of Seawater Desalination

27 September 2022

A rapidly-expanding market

Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA Élise CASSIGNOL

The Impact of the War in Ukraine on the Energy Sector

07 June 2022

The outbreak of war in Ukraine dealt a shock to energy markets.

Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA

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The EU’s Renewables Expansion Challenge Towards 2030: Mobilizing for a Mission Almost Impossible

16 May 2022

Only eight years are left to expand by almost three times the current total installed wind and solar energy capacity in the European Union (EU) in adding around 600 gigawatts (GW), and so reach the highly-ambitious 2030 targets. This requires a mobilization whose scale is immense – amidst times of unprecedented crises and uncertainties.

Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA Carole MATHIEU Ignacio URBASOS

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Accelerating the energy transition in France: drawing inspiration from best practice in our European neighbours

24 March 2022

The success of energy transition is first and foremost a question of good governance, which must be based on expertise and collective deliberation.

Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA Carole MATHIEU

Memos

The Energy Price Crises: A Reality Check for Europe’s Green Deal

10 November 2021

On its path to carbon neutrality, the European Union (EU) will be exposed to growing energy price volatility and vulnerable to Russian and Chinese pressure on supply and demand.

Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA Carole MATHIEU