Roundtable Kleinman Center Event

No ‘Business as Usual’ with Putin on Energy: Expert Perspectives

Friday, March 15, 2024 | 9:30AM - 10:30AM
Energy Week

Speakers

Alan Riley
Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council
Olena Pavlenko
President and Co-Founder, DiXi Group Energy Security Think Tank
Mitchell Orenstein
Professor, Russian and East European Studies
Suriya Jayanti
Senior Fellow, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council

Moderators

Benjamin Schmitt
Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
Aura Sabadus
Senior Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis

Virtual event

In this invite-only roundtable, experts offer perspectives on EU energy security, 2024 and beyond.

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Event Summary

Since Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, the importance of energy security issues across the European continent has pushed this policy area to the center of national security and foreign policy strategies on both sides of the Atlantic. From Russia’s indiscriminate targeting of civilian energy infrastructure across Ukraine, to physical attacks on energy and critical infrastructure across Northern Europe, to Europe’s rapid transition from a high-level of dependence on Russian pipeline natural gas toward international LNG imports, and the rapid proliferation of renewable energy technologies in support of energy transition objectives, the energy security of Europe has continued to be a high-profile driver of national security headlines – a trend that will certainly continue to hold true in 2024 and beyond.

Join the University of Pennsylvania’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) for a virtual roundtable discussion featuring experts from Penn and the CEPA European energy security working group, for a timely discussion of these interdisciplinary topics as a part of Penn Energy Week 2024!

Please note that this webinar is by invite-only. If you are a member of the Penn community and are interested in attending, please contact: SaraJane Rzegocki, sarajane.rzegocki@cepa.org.

This event is a part of Energy Week at Penn, a week of energy-focused events across Penn’s campus. Browse and register for other Energy Week events: energyweek.upenn.edu

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speaker

Alan Riley

Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council
Alan Riley is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center. He is also a professor at City Law School. City University advises governments, EU institutions, NGOs, and corporations on major strategic problems.
speaker

Olena Pavlenko

President and Co-Founder, DiXi Group Energy Security Think Tank
Olena Pavlenko is Chair of the PWYP Global Council and President of the DiXi Group, a Kyiv-based think-tank specialising in research and consultations in the energy sphere. She has served as not-on-staff Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and to the Minister of Energy.
speaker

Mitchell A. Orenstein

Professor, Russian and East European Studies
Mitchell A. Orenstein is Professor of Russian and East European Studies and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science. His search focuses on the political economy of transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the role of ideas in economic policy reform.
speaker

Suriya Jayanti

Senior Fellow, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
Suriya Evans-Pritchard Jayanti is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and the co-founder and managing director of Eney, a US-Ukrainian decarbonization company. She also serves as energy transition counsel at the US Department of Commerce.
moderator

Benjamin Schmitt

Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center and SAS
Benjamin Schmitt is a joint senior fellow at the Kleinman Center and the School of Arts and Sciences. He previously was a postdoctoral research fellow and project development scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
moderator

Aura Sabadus

Senior Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis
Aura Sabadus is a Non-resident Senior Fellow with the Democratic Resilience Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). Aura works as a journalist specializing in European energy markets for the London-based Independent Commodity Intelligence Services (ICIS).