U.S.-EU Cornerstone Project Series

The Center for Transatlantic Relations

Johns Hopkins University

EU Center of Excellence Washington DC

Invites you to attend a book launch event

Transatlantic Energy Futures

Strategic Perspectives on

Energy Security, Climate Change and New Technologies

in Europe and the United States

Edited by

David Koranyi

Center for Transatlantic Relations 

Thursday, December 8, 2011

9:30 am–11:50 am

Kenney Auditorium

1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20036

9.30 – 9.40 Welcome by Daniel S. Hamilton, Director, Center for Transatlantic Relations 

9.40 – 9.50 Introduction by David Koranyi, editor, SAIS CTR

9.50 – 10.05 Keynote speech by Jonathan Elkind, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy 

10.05 – 11.05 Panel I: Natural Gas and Transatlantic Energy Security

Moderator: David Koranyi, SAIS CTR

Frank Umbach, Senior Associate and Head of the Programme "International Energy Security" at the Centre for European Security Strategies(CESS, GmbH) and Associate Director at the European Centre for Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) at King's College, Cambridge

Taras Kuzio, Non-Resident Fellow, SAIS CTR

Adnan Vatansever, Senior Associate in the Energy and Climate Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Kornél Andzsans-Balogh, Researcher, Regional Center for Energy Policy Research (REKK)

11.05 – 11.50 Panel II: Renewables, innovation and new technologies

Moderator: Kurt Volker, Managing Director, SAIS CTR

Mark Olsthoorn, Visiting Scholar, University of Maryland, Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER)

Pal Belenyesi, Visiting Scholar, Florence School of Regulation at the European University Institute

Michael Stanton-Geddes, SAIS CTR

Dominic Marcellino, Research Fellow, Ecologic Institute, Washington, D.C.

Made possible through a generous grant from the European Union