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Christophe Bonnery is President of the International Association for Energy Economics, IAEE. He is Vice President, Economics & Prospective, ENEDIS, the French power distribution company. He is also President of the French Association for Energy Economics since 2009.

He created 2012 the French Circle of Energy Economists, to promote energy economics to energy policymakers. He created the Marcel Boiteux Award in 2011, which recognizes the best French book on energy economics every year.

Recently he was Vice President, Energy Policy for the AREVA Group. His role consisted in understanding current energy policies and promoting acceptable evolutions for all stakeholders: Governments, industries, consumers, and researchers. In this position, he developed an influencing expert network in various countries.

He was previously Vice President, Economic & Prospective Studies, AREVA.

In this role, he headed a team of Senior Energy experts in charge of electricity markets, competitiveness assessments, and all primary energies analyses.

He also serves as Project Manager for a program aiming to define potential synergies between nuclear and oil industries for heavy oil production.

He is a member of the French Association of Petroleum Technicians/ Economic Section and of the French Gas Association.

He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Center for Energy & Geopolitics Studies (Paris-Dauphine University).

Mr. Bonnery received his M.Sc in General Engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France, and MBA in Petroleum Economics and Management from the Center for Economics and Management, IFP School, Paris, France.

His former affiliations include Head of the Economics Department, NUSYS consulting company, Paris, France; Commercial Director, International Division, SGN, Paris, France; Project-consultant, Shell, Paris, France; Research Assistant, Economic, and Industrial Research Division, University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

He participated and organized more than 250 conferences and policymakers ’advisor contributing to national energy policies on resources assessments, power generation technologies, energy demand modelling, energy and poverty, market designs, energy tariffs, regulation, etc.

Christophe Bonnery has been awarded the Knighthood of the National Order of Merit.