Enno Harks

Enno Harks is a Political Advisor with Deutsche BP, where he advises the German CEO and senior headquarter staff on Russian Affairs and business-related energy policy issues in continental Europe, and a Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin.
 
From 2004-2007, he was a Senior Energy Expert at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin. In this position, he gave analysis and advice to the government, ministry officials and MoPs on international oil and gas markets developments.

During this time he was invited to join the German Energy Summit, set up by the Chancellor’s Office to elaborate on a German energy policy to 2020. Prior to that, Enno served for seven years as an energy analyst with the International Energy Agency (IEA) in the Office for Oil Markets and Emergency Preparedness. His main focus include mid-term global oil/gas developments and, since 2001, on issues of supply security in the run-up to the Iraq invasion. From 1994 to 1996 Enno worked as a TV journalist in Munich.  

His research interest focuses on the global oil market, on European gas supply security, institutional and cooperative approaches to energy security and the pipeline games. Enno has published widely on issues of energy policy and energy security, In 2007, he published a book entitled, "Petrostaaten" which addresses foreign policy consequences of the world’s top oil exporters. An analysis of the International Energy Forum will be published later in 2009.

Enno held numerous conference presentations, teaches regularly at universities in Berlin (ESMT, FU, TU) and abroad and has been a regular commentator in the press on energy policy matters.

He studied economics in Kiel, Paris (Sciences-Po) and Munich.

Languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Russian