What blind spots are we missing in the global conversation about energy and geopolitics?  In this episode, The Geopolitics of Energy: “Shifting Sands,” Allan Marks hosts a fireside chat with Dr. Carolyn Kissane, a professor at NYU’s SPS Center for Global Affairs. 

Public policies in Europe, the US and China are stimulating massive capital investment in renewable energy, EVs, batteries and the energy transition, and India is a rapidly rising economy. Mr. Marks and Dr. Kissane look at these interrelated issues and the outsized effects of wars and climate change on global resource security, energy use, water supplies and demographics. They also assess the challenges of climate risks, increased electricity demand, uneven economic growth, national security risks, and the controversial roles of natural gas and hydrogen in decarbonization. The dynamics of the world’s manufacturing powers are shifting. 

About the Speakers

Dr. Carolyn Kissane is Associate Dean of the graduate programs in Global Affairs and Global Security, Conflict and Cybercrime at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs and is a Clinical Professor where she teaches graduate-level courses examining the geopolitics of energy, comparative energy politics, energy, environment and resource security, and climate change and security. She is the Founding Director of the SPS Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab, Coordinator of the Energy and Environment concentration at the Center, and a faculty adviser to the Energy Policy International Club. She serves on the boards of the New York Energy Forum, New York Energy Week, and the Clean Start Advisory Board.

Podcast host Allan Marks is one of the world's leading project finance lawyers. He advises developers, investors, lenders, and underwriters around the world in the development and financing of complex energy and infrastructure projects, as well as related acquisitions, restructurings and capital markets transactions. Many of his transactions relate to ESG and sustainability, innovative clean technologies, and sophisticated contractual risk allocation. Allan serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley at the Law School and previously at the Haas School of Business.

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