Oil to lithium, the energy transition is shuffling the cards for global politics

Anna Creti holds a PhD from the Toulouse School of Economics and a post-doc from the London School of Economics. She has previously worked at the Toulouse School of Economics, Bocconi University, the University of Nanterre and has visited the University of California Santa Barbara and Berkeley. She has also studied in depth competition and utility regulation in Europe, and the link between energy, climate and environmental regulation. She is now full professor at Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL, Director of the Climate Economics Chair (Un. Dauphine) and Associate Director of the Economics of Gas Chair (U Dauphine, Toulouse School of Economics, IFPEN, Ecole des Mines)

Olivier Massol is Professor at the Centre for Energy Economics and Management at IFP School and Executive Director of the Gas Economics Chair. His teaching and research focus on the economic analysis of energy markets and industries.

Patrice Geoffron has been acting president and international vice-president of the University of Paris-Dauphine. He also directed the Economics laboratory and has been a visiting professor at Bocconi University in Milan for several years, as well as a member of the Cercle des Économistes. He heads the energy-climate team at LED which runs several research chairs (Climate Economics, Gas Economics, European Electricity Markets) and a Master's degree (Energy-Finance-Carbon). Previously, he was a member of the World Council of the International Association for Energy Economics and an expert for the Citizen’s Climate Convention.

Emmanuel Hache is Scientific Assistant and Economist-Prospector at IFP Énergies nouvelles and Research Director at IRIS. He holds a doctorate in economics from University of Paris I and is qualified to direct research at University of Paris-Nanterre. He also holds a degree in Geopolitics and Foresight from the Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques (IRIS). At IFP Énergies nouvelles, he works on energy foresight and critical materials, as well as on all issues relating to natural resources for the ecological transition. He teaches foresight, economics and geopolitics of natural resources at a number of institutions. He is also a research associate at Economix (EconomiX-CNRS, Université Paris Nanterre). He is the author of Géopolitique des énergies, published by Editions Eyrolles in September 2022, and Métaux, le nouvel or noir , co-written with Benjamin Louvet and published by Editions du Rocher in September 2023, as well as over eighty articles in French and international academic journals.

Clément Boulle is a journalist and entrepreneur. A graduate of École supérieure de journalisme (ESJ) in Lille, he holds an executive MBA from INSEAD. Before joining Polytechnique Insights, he spent six years developing digital marketing company Local Media, an online advertising agency for local advertisers, which he then sold. Early on in his career, he was a journalist and editor-in-chief in the La Dépêche du Midi media group. He also worked for the French Red Cross as a consultant, helping design and develop a social innovation incubator.

María Eugenia Sanin leads international research projects and supervises numerous PhD students at the University of Paris Saclay. She has been a consultant in energy and environment for multilateral organisations as well as for the public and private sector in America, Europe and Africa. A post-doctoral fellow at Ecole Polytechnique, María Eugenia Sanin holds a PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven and a BA from the Uruguayan University UDELAR.