Press Release

December 26th, 2023
The Institute of Energy Economics, JapanThe Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, announces
Dr. Hoesung Lee, Former Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
as its Distinguished Fellow

The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ), appoints Dr. Hoesung Lee, President ofCarbon Free Alliance and a Special Ambassador for Carbon Free Energy, Republic of Korea,
who is the Former Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as its
Distinguished Fellow from January 1st, 2024.
IEEJ started its Distinguished Fellowship Initiative from 2016. It has invited a variety ofexperts who are widely recognized and renowned for their research contributions andexperience in the fields of energy and/or environment to assume its Distinguished Fellow post.
A Distinguished Fellow is expected for its role of not only cooperating and exchanging views
to address the common challenges of the global energy issues based on his or her respective
knowledge but also delivering presentations and participating as panelist at IEEJ’s events. Asof now, there are five Distinguished Fellows other than Dr. Hoesung Lee.
Upon welcoming Dr. Hoesung Lee, a globally recognized and renowned expert, as its
Distinguished Fellow from the start of 2024, IEEJ will further enhance its quality and scope ofresearch activities in order to accelerate global energy transition toward carbon neutrality by
mid-century.

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Biography of Dr. Hoesung Lee

Dr. Hoesung Lee is the President of Carbon Free Alliance and a Special Ambassador for Carbon
Free Energy, Republic of Korea. The Caron Free Alliance is an organization launched in October
2023 by the Government of the Republic of Korea as a public and private sector platform topromote carbon-free energy globally to support climate solutions and economic growth.
Dr. Lee was Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment(2015–2023) which provided, among others, key scientific inputs to the first Global Stocktake
in 2023 under the Paris Agreement. He is an economist by training in the fields of climate change,energy and sustainable development. He serves as Chair of the Asian Development Bank
President’s Advisory Board on Climate Change and Sustainable Development. He was thefounding president of the Korea Energy Economics Institute — a government agency for nationalenergy policy development. He was distinguished research fellow at the Korea Environment
Institute, senior adviser to the Minister of Energy and Resources and the Minister of Environment,
senior fellow at the Korea Development Institute and economist at Exxon Company USA.
Dr. Lee was Co-Chair of the IPCC Working Group III (the economic and social dimensions ofclimate change) for the Second Assessment which provided a scientific basis for the UNFCCC’s
Kyoto Protocol. He served as Vice-Chair of IPCC from 2008 to 2015, and lead author and review
editor for the various IPCC assessments.
Dr. Lee received his BA from Seoul National University and a PhD in Economics from Rutgers
University, USA.
＜Contact＞
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Annex List of the current Distinguished Fellows
Dr. Kenneth Medlock III

Senior Director, Center for Energy Studies, Baker Institute for Public Policy, RiceUniversity, USDr. Medlock, III is the James A. Baker, III and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics

and senior director of the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute, co-directorof the Master of Energy Economics program, and adjunct professor in Economics and Civil andEnvironmental Engineering. He is Distinguished Fellow at IEEJ and on the Advisory Board of the Payne
Institute at Colorado School of Mines. He has published numerous articles, has testified multiple

times on Capitol Hill, has spoken at OPEC, and frequently speaks at venues around the world. He hasreceived several awards for scholarly achievements, most recently the 2019 Lifetime Achievement

Award for the Advancement of Education for Future Energy Leaders from the Abdullah Bin Hamad
Al-Attiyah Foundation. He is a member of the AEA and NPC. He received his Ph.D. in economics fromRice University in May 2000.

Dr. Tatiana Mitrova

Research Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA

Dr. Mitrova has twenty five years of experience in dealing with Russian, FSU and global energy
markets, including production, transportation, demand, energy policy, pricing and market

restructuring. From February 2017 to December 2020, she was the Executive Director of the Energy
Centre of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, a graduate business-school. From 20062011 she has also been the Head of Research in the Oil and Gas Department in the Energy ResearchInstitute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is a graduate of Moscow State University’s

Economics Department. She is a Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris(Sciences Po). She is a member of the board of directors of the global oil service company

Schlumberger since July 2018. She has more than 200 publications in scientific and business journals
and co-authors10 scientific books as well as best-seller “The 8 and 1/2 Steps: How to Live, Love And

Work At Full Capacity” (stories of women leaders).

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Professor Jonathan Stern

Distinguished Research Fellow and Founder Natural Gas Research Programme,
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, UK

Professor Stern is a Distinguished Research Fellow and founder of the Natural Gas Research

Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES). He holds professorships at theUniversity of Dundee; and fellowships at the Energy Delta Institute and the Institute of Energy
Economics, Japan.

Professor Paul Stevens

Associate Fellow, Chatham House, UK, Emeritus Professor, University of Dundee, UK

Educated as an economist and as a specialist on the Middle East at Cambridge and SOAS; 1973-1979
teaching at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon; 1979-93 at the University of Surrey.

Between 1993 and 2008, he was Professor of Petroleum Policy and Economics at the University ofDundee, Scotland, a chair created by BP. He is an expert in the international petroleum industry,economic development in the Gulf and energy economics.
Mr. Nobuo Tanaka

Special Advisor, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Mr. Tanaka has decades of experience with energy and finance since he joined the Ministry ofInternational Trade and Industry (MITI; presently METI) in 1973. He has also worked for Japanese
Embassy in Washington, D.C., and OECD. He served as Executive Director of the International Energy
Agency (IEA) from 2007 to 2011. Joined IEEJ as Global Associate in 2011. Since 2020, he holds currentposition. He holds MBA from Case Western Reserve University, US.