Europeanization of Energy Corridors: Energy policies and energy roads

Europeanization of Public and Private Actors in the Energy Sector assessed through the Nabucco Project      
                                            
Programme:                                            
09:30 – 09:45 Opening Session: Introduction to the Conference : François Bafoil, Senior Research Fellow, CNRS/CERI Sciences-Po, Paris / Olgu Okumuş, Ph.D. Candidate ENERPOL, CERI Sciences Po, Paris                                            
09:45 -12:00    Session 1: EU gas security          
Chairperson: Pierre Noël, Director of the Energy Policy Forum, EPRG University of Cambridge
    Gas supply security: What it is, who enjoys it, and why?                           
 
Brendan Devlin, DG-TREN, Policy Officer, Electricity and Gas Unit, Brussels
    Different levels of interest for energy policy                             
Malgorzata Mika-Bryska, Minister Councellor, Head of Economic and Trade Section, Permanent Representation of Poland to the EU, Brussels
    Energy prospects for Central Europe                             
                                                                                              
13:30 -15:00    Session 2: Turkey at the crossroads of energy routes
                              
Chairperson: Volkan Ediger, Director of Research and Graduate Policies, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir
    Driving forces of Turkish energy policy                 
Sohbet Karbuz, Head of the Oil and Natural Gas Department, OME
    Diversification and energy transit routes                            
Mehmet Öğütçü, Senior Research Fellow, CEPMLP, The University of Dundee, London
    Energy transit role of Turkey                            
                                                                                                         
15:30 -17:30    Session 3: New gas supply sources                           
Chairperson: Bayram Balci, Research Fellow, CNRS/Sciences Po-CERI, Paris
    Geopolitics of the Caspian zone                           
   
Yelena Kalyuzhnova, Director, Center for Euro-Asian Studies, University of Reading, Berkshire
    Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan strategies for the Southern energy corridor projects and Nabucco                         
Turab Gurbanov, Presidential Administration of Azerbaïjan, Bakou
    Azerbaijan’s energy diplomacy: European political cooperation
Adeeb Munim, President, URUK, Center for Strategy and Development, Baghdad
    Iraq’s possible contribution to the Southern corridor