Prénom de l'expert

Diana-Paula

Nom de l'expert

GHERASIM

Research Fellow, Head of European Energy and Climate Policies, Energy and Climate Center, Ifri

Research Areas:

EU 2030 energy & climate framework
Renewables
Electrification
Europeanisation and EU institutions

Center for Energy & Climate

Before joining Ifri's Energy and Climate Center, Diana-Paula Gherasim worked as Advisor on Renewables and Lead on the 2030 energy & climate framework in Europe at Eurelectric, the European association representing national associations in the field of electricity from across all EU Member States. She also acted as Policy Officer in the European Affairs Department at ENGIE, where she was namely in charge of the European Green Deal. Diana has also worked in the field of management consulting and strategy consulting in developing countries, undertaking field projects namely in Ivory Coast and Kenya.

Diana holds a double master degree from HEC Paris and Sciences Po Paris in Corporate and Public Management and a bachelor in Political Science at Sciences Po Paris. She also studied at King’s College London.

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The Troubled Reorganization of Critical Raw Materials Value Chains: An Assessment of European De-risking Policies

30 September 2024

With the demand for critical raw materials set to, at a minimum, double by 2030 in the context of the current energy transition policies, the concentration of critical raw materials (CRM) supplies and, even more, of refining capacities in a handful of countries has become one of the paramount issues in international, bilateral and national discussions. China’s dominant position and successive export controls on critical raw materials (lately, germanium, gallium, rare earths processing technology, graphite, antimony) point to a trend of weaponizing critical dependencies.

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Studies

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

Memos

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Global Gateway: Towards a European External Climate Security Strategy?

11 April 2024

Transport, energy, water and telecommunications infrastructures are vital for economic development. These infrastructures are also fundamental for the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have suffered a setback notably due to the Covid-19 pandemic, wars, and weak economic performance. Based on the Global Infrastructure Outlook, the world needs 97 trillion dollars ($) in infrastructure investments (energy, water, airports, ports, rail, road, and telecommunications) over 2016-2040, and based on the current investment trends ($79 trillion over the given period), the cumulative global infrastructure investment gap amounts to $18 trillion.

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Studies

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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

Studies

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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

G20 Energy Transitions and Climate Finance Task Force Report

16 February 2023

India is at the helm of the G20 presidency since the 1^st of December 2022 for the duration of a year, with energy transition and climate finance being key topics on its agenda. In this context, the Gateway House put in place a G20 Energy Task Force to which Ifri’s Research Fellow, Diana-Paula Gherasim, participated.

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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

Papers

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A Guide to Solve EU’s Hydrogen Dilemmas

19 September 2022

Facing multiple crises, the European Commission (EC), backed by European Union (EU) Member States, has embarked on a pathway to accelerate the decarbonization of the EU energy system, while fostering its resilience and accelerating the roll out of hydrogen and derivative by-products.

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External Articles

Shaping the future of the EU: reviving the Europeanisation process

01 September 2020

More than ten years after joining the European Union (EU), the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) exhibit a puzzle of attitudes and conceptions regarding the EU.

Diana-Paula GHERASIM

Romania: a key player in the Energy Union for the security of natural gas supply?

01 August 2018

In 2015, Maroš Šefcovic, Vice President of the European Commission for Energy Union, was writing about Romania as being «at a crossroads - both in strategic and physical terms.

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