BIOGRAPHIES FATIH BIROL Fatih Birol has served as Executive Director of the International Energy Agency since 2015. After taking office, Fatih Birol led the IEA in its first comprehensive modernization ERNEST MONIZ programme since its creation in 1974. These efforts focused on “opening the doors” of the Ernest Moniz was Secretary at the US IEA to major emerging economies; making Department of Energy during Barrack the IEA the global hub for clean energy KLAUS BONHOFF Obama’s presidency. In that post he transitions; and broadening the IEA’s energy advanced energy technology innovation, security mandate beyond oil to also cover Klaus Bonhoff was appointed Director nuclear security, and strategic stability electricity, natural gas, renewables and the General at Germany’s Federal Ministry for and environmental stewardship. He placed critical minerals needed in many of today’s Transport and Digital Infrastructure in energy science and technology innovation clean energy technologies. Fatih Birol August 2019, after working at the Jülich at the centre of the global response to has been named in the TIME100, TIME’s Research Centre, Ballard Power Systems, climate change, and negotiated the Iran annual list of the world’s most influential and at DaimlerChrysler. He was managing nuclear agreement alongside the Secretary people. He is the recipient of numerous state director of Germany’s NOW National of State. He has served on the boards of decorations, including the French Legion of Organization for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell numerous companies, non-profits, and Honour, the Japanese Emperor’s Order of Technology, and is adjunct professor at the government agencies. He earned a Bachelor the Rising Sun, the Order of the Polar Star Hamburg University of Technology, as well of Science degree in physics from Boston from the King of Sweden and the highest as a member of various advisory boards. College and a doctorate in theoretical Presidential decorations from Austria, He studied at RWTH Aachen University and physics from Stanford University. Germany and Italy. ENSTA, Paris. 71