Prénom de l'expert
Marie-Claire
Nom de l'expert
AOUN
Former 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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