2 April 2024

15:25 – 16:10

Amphi 3

Yvan Cliche

Yvan Cliche is an energy specialist and Fellow at the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’université de Montréal (CÉRIUM).Yvan Cliche worked for over 25 years at Hydro-Québec, mainly as a commercial delegate and international project manager, for mandates carried out mainly in Africa and Asia. He also worked at the African Development Bank in Tunis (2007-2011), in the external relations department. In 2019, he headed an international cooperation organization. Then in 2020, Yvan Cliche joined the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM) as an energy specialist and fellow. He regularly writes commentaries on the energy sector for the media. In 2022, he published Jusqu’à plus soif – Enjeux et conflits énergétiques (Éditions Fides), a book on the geopolitics of energy, which was a finalist for the Hubert-Reeves 2023 prize for popular science.

How is the geopolitics of energy linked to the energy transition shaping up?

The energy sector has undergone profound transformations over the past 20 years: the shale oil revolution and the rise of the United States; the breakthrough of global gas trading; the drastic fall in the price of renewable energies; China’s increasing dependence on energy imports, at the same time as it is becoming the world leader in decarbonized energy supply chains. The strategic importance of minerals for the transition. All these changes are bringing about a profound reconfiguration of global political and economic relations, which are already having a major impact on international politics, and concrete impacts for citizens.