Table Of Content

Professors At Columbia University Manuel Antonio Gomes de Almeida de Pinho Former Minister of Economy and Innovation, Portugal (2005- 09), was the President of the EU Council of Energy Ministers (2007). Manuel Pinho is credited for the energy reform that transformed Portugal in a world leader in clean energies and is the author of Europe´s New Energy Era, the background paper of the EU Strategic Energy Technological Plan. He has been a Visiting Professor at SIPA in 201- 2014, where is currently an Adjunct Professor. In 2012, he was a senior fellow of the Jackson Institute and a lecturer at Yale School of Management and in 2015 will be a Visiting Professor at the School of Economics and Visiting Fellow in the Australian Institute of Business and Economics, Queensland University in Australia. Guest Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Director of the China Sustainability Project at the Earth Institute. In his early career, worked for the IMF and was the Director of the Treasury at the Ministry of Finance. He holds a BA from the Technical University of Lisbon and a doctoral degree from the University of Paris-X. Manuel Pinho has Honors by the governments of Brazil, France, Germany, Norway, Spain and Sweden. Images Courses The course will coverin the first 10 classes the world energy balance, the 3 main game changers (China, energy security and climate change) and the most important energy challenges from the point of view of the.  US (shale gas and tight oil revolution),  China (external dependence, pollution),  Europe (20/20/20 strategy, single market, competitiveness),  Russia (investment, strategic cooperation with China),and Developing countries (energy access for all). The remaining 3 classes will cover, 6 special topics:  Energy Darwinism, The evolution of the energy industry (Citibank)  How China´s resource quest is changing the world (E. Economy and M. Levi)  Fueling the future with natural gas (HIS CERA report on natural gas in the US)  Energy economics developments in Europe (European Commission)  Risky business: The economic risks of climate change in the US (Bloomberg- Paulsen report)  Outlook for Russian energy (International Energy Agency) The course includes “Power trade” a computer based game that replicates real electricity markets where groups of 4 students will create a strategy for investment in power generation. For more information please visit site http://www.manuelpinho.me