Samuel Furfari

Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, former Senior Official of DG Energy at the European Commission

Prof. Samuel Furfari is a chemical engineer with a PhD in energy from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. After obtaining his doctorate, he worked for 36 years as a senior European official in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy, eventually becoming Advisor to the Director-General. Throughout his career, he contributed to the development of nearly all areas of energy technology and policy, including strategy, hydrogen, environment, climate change, renewable energy, and energy efficiency.

He taught energy policy and geopolitics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles from 2003 to 2021. Currently, he teaches Energy Geopolitics at ESCP London Business School and is an honorary professor at the Polytechnic School of the University of Madrid.

He is a member of the World Federation of Scientists’ Permanent Monitoring Panel on Energy and served as President of the European Society of Engineers and Industrialists from 2019 to 2022.

He is the author of more than 20 books. His most recent works are Energy Insecurity: The Organised Destruction of the EU’s Competitiveness and The Truth About COPs: Thirty Years of Illusions