The Russian war on Ukraine has upended fundamental assumptions in Germany’s and the European Union’s security, energy and climate policy agendas. It raises a wide range of short- and long-term questions, such as: How to deal with the current energy market crisis in the EU? How to structure and manage potential disruptions in fossil fuel imports from Russia? How to deal with the economic and social fallout from soaring energy prices and potential further disruptions? Should the EU continue its Green Deal implementation as suggested by the Commission’s Fit-for-55 package? Our panel convenes experts and policymakers in security, energy and climate policy to discuss and make sense of key challenges and response options at the intersection of multiple policy fields.
Join a discussion with Marina Henke, Professor of International Relations, and Director Hertie School Centre for International Security, Lion Hirth, Professor of Energy Policy, Roderich Kiesewetter MdB, CDU and Ingrid Nestle, MdB, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. Christian Flachsland, Professor of Sustainability, Director Hertie School Centre for Sustainability will act as moderator.
This event is part of the Hertie talks Ukraine event series hosted in cooperation with the Centre for Sustainability.
Speakers
Marina Henke is Professor of International Relations at the Hertie School and Director of the Centre for International Security. She researches and publishes on military interventions, peacekeeping, nuclear security and European security and defense policy. Before joining the Hertie School, she was an Associate Professor (with tenure) at Northwestern University, specialising in international relations, as well as at Princeton University where she was a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She holds a PhD in Politics and Public Policy from Princeton University.
Lion Hirth is Assistant Professor of Governance of Digitalisation and Energy Policy at the Hertie School. Lion is also Research Fellow at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Director of the consulting firm Neon, and Secretary of Strommarkttreffen, a network of energy professionals. He holds a PhD in Energy Economics, and Diploma in Economics, and a Magister in Political Science.
Roderich Kiesewetter is Member of the German Parliament (CDU) and former General Staff Officer of the Bundeswehr (Federal Armed Forces), Col (GS) ret. He is representative of foreign affairs for the CDU/CSU-Caucus since 2014 and was chairperson of the Parliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr) from November 2020 and serves now as deputy chairperson of the PKGr. He has been a member of the German Bundestag (Parliament) since 2009 and serves as member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In 2022 he was elected as Spokesperson for crisis prevention. He is a member of the German Delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly - Union for Mediterranean (PV-UfM) and he is a member of the German Delegation at the interparliamentary conference for the common foreign and security Policy (CFSP) and the common security and defence policy (CSDP). Since 2019, Kiesewetter is Speaker of the advisory council of the Federal Academy for Security Policy Council.
Ingrid Nestle has been a member of the German Bundestag again since September 2017. She is currently head of the working group and spokeswoman for climate protection and energy for her parliamentary group as well as a member of the Committee on Climate Protection and Energy. From 2012 to 2017, Neste was State Secretary for Energy Transition and Technical Environmental Protection in Schleswig-Holstein following her election to the Bundestag in 2009. Prior, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Flensburg as the Chair of Energy and Resource Economics. Nestle studied energy and environmental management and graduated as an industrial engineer at the University of Flensburg.
