Manfred Hafner

Manfred Hafner is Professor of international energy studies and teaches at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS-Europe) and at Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA). He also teaches in several Executive Education programmes around the World. His main research interests refer to international energy markets, decarbonization and energy policy. He addresses these issues from an interdisciplinary point of view, integrating technological, economic, policy and geopolitical as well as social/sociological aspects. Over his more then 30 year professional carrier, he has extensively consulted on energy issues for governments, international organizations (EC, WB, IEA, IRENA…) and industry, and has coordinated several major interdisciplinary research projects for the European Commission. He owns, and is CEO of, the Swiss based energy strategy consulting company HEAS AG, which recently also absorbed International Energy Consultants (IEC) LLC. Previously he was Research Programme Director for "Geopolitics and the Energy Transition", "Future Energy" and "Energy Markets and Policies". He was Scientific Director of the "Observatoire Méditettanéen de l'Energie", a think-tank and association of Euro-Mediterranean energy operators. Dr. Hafner holds master’s degrees in energy engineering from the Technische Universität München (Germany), in energy economics, business and policy from the University of Pennsylvania (USA), the IFP School (France) and the Université Paris2/Panthéon Assas (France). He also holds a PhD (summa cum laude) from Mines Paris - PSL (Ecole des Mines de Paris). He speaks fluently English, French, German, Italian, and fairly well Spanish and Russian.