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Marie-Claire
Nom de l'expert
AOUN

Domaine d'expertises En

Former Director, Center for Energy

Biographie En

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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Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next French President

Date de publication
31 March 2017
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France’s current presidential campaign has created an unprecedented situation fuelled by revelations and a total absence of restraint, but it has not truly taken account of the disruptions of the last year: Brexit, the attempted coup in Turkey, the election of Donald Trump, the recapturing of Aleppo by Bashar al-Assad, Xi Jinping’s declarations about “economic globalization”, or the behavior of North Korea. The debate, or rather its absence, can be looked at in two ways.

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Le monde selon Trump. Anticiper la nouvelle politique étrangère américaine

Date de publication
16 November 2016
Accroche

What will become of US foreign policy under Donald Trump? A selection of Ifri researchers has come together to offer their thoughts on this question. Our experts cover an array of topics through 14 contributions, ranging from the future Sino-American relations, through US engagement in the Middle East, to the prospects of a renewed transatlantic relationship. This analysis intends to help readers anticipate the outcomes of this election in order to facilitate decision-making.

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Nord Stream 2: May Cooler Heads Prevail

Date de publication
23 September 2016
Accroche

Since the announcement of the Nord Stream 2 project in June 2015, the debate around the benefits of this project for Europe is raging, putting forward political, economic and commercial arguments. 

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EU Security of Gas Supplies : Solidarity Runs Through the Pipeline

Date de publication
30 May 2016
Accroche

Given the tensions between the EU and its main gas supplier, Russia, the European Commission has been revisiting since 2014 its energy security strategy.

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The European Gas Market Looking for its Golden Age?

Date de publication
08 December 2015
Accroche

The EU gas policy has to deal with a new landscape on the supply and demand sides. This study examines five major recent evolutions of the EU gas market: the relations with Russia, LNG coming back to Europe, the decrease of Groningen production, the contrasted evolutions of shale gas and the perspectives of EU natural gas demand.

A New Era of Oil Abundance?

Date de publication
01 December 2015
Accroche

From 2014 to 2015, the price of oil fell. 

Adapting to the Effects of Global Warming. Article from "RAMSES 2016"

Date de publication
08 September 2015
Accroche

Adaptation issues started to gain momentum from the Copenhagen conference in 2009. Up until then, international negotiations had focused on mitigation policies. However, the increase in weather events and the inadequate efforts to hold back global warming now make adaptation a key issue in discussions around the Paris agreement.

The New Dimensions of Geopolitics

Date de publication
04 June 2015
Accroche

Editor: Deborah Sherwood, published by Cligendael International Energy Program (CIEP) and Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri)

Local Content Strategies in the Oil and Gas Sector: How to Maximise Benefits to Host Communities

Date de publication
03 June 2015
Accroche

Editor: Deborah Sherwood, published by Institut francais des relations internationales (Ifri)

Is Natural Gas Green Enough for the Environment and Energy Policies?

Date de publication
03 June 2015
Accroche

Editor: Deborah Sherwood, published by Clingendael International Energy Program (CIEP) and Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri)

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