Cv 2010-long CGEMP - Université Paris

Sophie MERITET
E-mails: [email protected] – [email protected]
WORK EXPERIENCES
March 2001 - Present: Université Paris - Dauphine (Paris, France),
Associate Professor in Economics – Specializations: Industrial organization and Energy
industries - CGEMP French Geopolitical Center of Energy and Raw Materials directed by Pr. JeanMarie CHEVALIER.
Ph D in Economics (2000): “Merger wave in the US between electric and natural gas utilities”.
HDR Habilitation à Encadrer des Recherches (2007) (postdoctoral degree authorizing the recipient
to supervise doctoral students) - Dauphine University
• Co-Director of Principles of Microeconomics class at undergraduate level (500 students) for L1
and L2
• Member of the steering committeee for international strategy of Dauphine, international
coordinator for the US and Australia
• Expert for the Agence d’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur AERES 2008
(Institution in charge of the evaluation of French university activities)
• Elected member of Administration Council and disciplinary committee of Dauphine 2004-2008.
• Director of Studies of a degree in Industrial Organization (2 years diploma, 60 students, 20
lecturers) 2002-2009.
• Full responsibility of teaching: Principles of Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Europe
Today’s challenges, Antitrust Economics, all levels of students from undergraduates to Ph D students
(teaching in English and in French)
RESEARCH - ACADEMIC WORK
• Invited professor at University of Chicago (Il, USA) Fall 2007 International studies department
• Visiting professor at Vargas Foundation (FGV EBAP) in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil): study of the
Brazilian energy market – November 2004, 2005 and 2006.
• Visiting at CIDE Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas in Mexico City, Seminar :
Geopolitics of Energy- The political economy of non renewable resources International lessons for
Mexico, presentations on « World energy situation and the European Union energy situation – July
2007 and 2008
• Trainee sessions for professionals on industrial organization applied to firm’s strategies and also
on the European, French & North American energy markets (like for example EDF, Xerfi Precepta)
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
January 2008 – Mars 2008: College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) – Department of Political &
Administrative Studies
“Energy security of supply in Europe”
September 2007- Present: American University in Paris AUP (Paris, France) – Master in Public
Administration in Strategic Public Policy- “Comparative energy policies” - taught in English
March 2007- Present: Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées ENPC (Champs sur Mane, France) Graduate engineering school - Responsible for the course “Competition and markets” COMAR Since 2009, Associate Professor at ENPC.
January 2005 – Present: University of Chicago Paris Center (Paris, France) – Exchange program“Introduction to European issues” (with A. Sztulman) – taught in English
July 2007 & 2008: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas CIDE (Mexico City, Mexico)“World energy situation and the European Union energy situation” - taught in English
January 2007, 2008 & 2009: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne
ENST (Brest, France) - Graduate engineering school in the field of information technologies“Geopolitics of energy and Industrial Organization applied to energy industries”
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Past teaching experiences
September 2007- December 2007: University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
• Introduction to European Issues – Fall semester 2007- taught in English
October 2006– January 2007: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
ITESM (Paris, France)- taught in English.
March 2006: Hautes Etudes Marocaines HEM (Casablanca, Morocco)
November 2002– January 2007: INSTN National Institute of Nuclear Sciences (Saclay, France)
January 2003– December 2003: Boston University (Paris, France) – Exchange program
August 2001- January 2002: University of Houston (Houston, Texas, USA)
• Principles of Microeconomics – Fall semester 2001- taught in English
ENERGY WORK EXPERIENCES
2009: Thomas More- European Think Tank (Paris, France) - occasional researcher on energy issues
2007: Notre Europe- European Think Tank (Paris, France) - occasional researcher on energy issues
March 2001 - 2004: CFE – IFRI The French Center on the United States - French Institute of
International Relations – Specialist: American electricity and natural gas markets.
Feb. 2000 - Feb. 2001: French Consulate – French Trade Office (Houston, TX, USA)
Economist specialist in energy related issues - Responsible of studying the electricity industry in
the United States for French government and firms - Representing the French government in
energy congresses and round tables Main topics: deregulation of the American electric power industry, convergence of electric and
natural gas value chains, nuclear industry, SO2 emission permits, California and New York crisis,
mergers wave, spot markets, distributed generation units, transmission and generation capacities…
Jul. 1998 - Feb 2000: VIVENDI Group (Paris, France) - French multi-utility
Energy Economist - Specialist in the American electric power market - Analyst of the
American electric industry during the acquisition of Sithe Energy by Vivendi - Presentation of the
cogeneration market in North America to help the creation of Dalkia.
Responsible of studies on: gas - electric power convergence, new American energy firms, comparison
of the industrial organization in the US and in Europe, American antitrust…
EDUCATION
2007: HDR Habilitation à Encadrer des Recherches (postdoctoral degree authorizing the recipient
to supervise doctoral students) - Dauphine University (Paris, France)
1996 - 2000 : Ph D in Economics - Industrial Organization - Dauphine University (Paris,
France) - Supervisor Pr. J-M. CHEVALIER - in collaboration with VIVENDI Group (French
Company) - Passed with honors.
Topic: "The reconfiguration of the electric power industry in the United States: gas -electric
utilities mega mergers" (500 pages)
1995-1996: Postgraduate Degree in Industrial Economics - Dauphine University (Paris, France) Graduated with distinction - Major: Industrial Organization.
1993-1995: Master’s degree in Economics - Dauphine University (Paris, France) - Admission on record
- Graduated with distinction.
LANGUAGES AND MISCELLANEOUS
Native French.
Basic Italian.
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Proficient in English
Good level in Spanish
Learning how to speak Portuguese
Member of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), Vice President for
International affairs of IAEE 2007 -2009
Member of the editing committee of Journal of Energy Markets (Risk Journals series)
Member of the program committee of several IAEE conferences and EREM
Member of French Association of Energy Economics (AEE):
External referee since 2001 for the Energy Journal, and since 2005 for Energy Studies Review.
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PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
More details on www.meritet.net
TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Process of deregulation of energy markets and new organization in the European Union,
Brazil , Mexico and the United States.
- Geopolitics of energy markets
- Energy competition policy
- Energy policies
- Strategies of energy firms: mergers and acquisitions, market power, diversification…
- Specific topics: LNG development, nuclear industry, convergence gas - electricity, European
energy policy, evolution of the Brazilian and Mexican energy markets, the French electricity
markets (prices, tariffs...), the French natural gas market, …
PUBLICATIONS (IN ENGLISH AND IN FRENCH)
2010
-« Les nouveaux défis des politiques énergétiques des Etats-Unis et de l’Union Européenne “, Revue du
Marché commun et de l’Union Européenne, n°537, Avril 2010
2009
- « Que peut-on attendre des Etats-Unis dans le débat énergie-environnement ? », (2009), Economie et
Société, ISMEA , Economie et Climat.
- “The United States energy policy: at a turning point”, with Salaun F. Chapter 6, in The New Energy
Crisis: climate, economics and geopolitics, ed. JM Chevalier, Palgrave.
- “Nuclear energy and climate change” - with Zaleski CP, - Observer Research Foundation ORF (New
Delhi India)
- « La politique énergétique des Etats Unis à un tournant », avec Salaun F., Chapitre 6 dans Les
nouveaux défis de l’énergie: Climat, Economie, Géopolitique, ed. JM Chevalier, Economica.
2008
- “Energia en pocas palabras” – El mundo del petroleo – August.
- « Les transitions réglementaires dans les industries énergétiques », Problèmes Economiques, La
documentation française, n°339, Juillet Aout.
-« Politiques de l'énergie », avec JM Chevalier, Encyclopedia Universalis,
-« Approvisionnements européens en gaz Encyclopedia Universalis, p. 194.
2007:
- « French perspectives in the emerging European Union energy policy», Energy Policy n°35, pp. 47674771
- « Les transitions réglementaires dans les industries énergétiques », Problèmes Economiques, La
documentation française, n°339, Juillet Aout.
- « Les transitions réglementaires dans les industries énergétiques »- Cahiers Français – n°339
(Regulatory transistions in energy industries »)
- « Libéralisation des marchés énergétiques : l’exemple américain », Alternatives Edito Areva, Juillet 2007
- « French Energy Policy in the European Context », Foreign Policy in Dialogue, n°. 20, “Towards an
External European Energy Policy?
-« Vers une politique énergétique commune », Encyclopedia Universalis, (Towards a common European
energy policy)
- « Concentration et risques sur les marchés européens de l’énergie », with P. Geoffron, Economie et
Société, Série Energie, ISMEA (Concentration and risks in the European energy markets)
- “Electricity Spot Price Modeling: Univariate Time Series Approach” with R. Bourbonnais, Chapter 3, in
The Econometrics Of Energy Systems, Palgrave Macmillan
- “The Causality Link Between Energy Prices, Technology and Energy Intensity“ with M. Bessec,
Chapter 6, in The Econometrics Of Energy Systems, Palgrave Macmillan.
- « Hacia una politica energetica commun ? Union Europa »- El mundo del petroleo – Décembre Janvier.
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Others:
- “Déterminants des prix des hydrocarbures”, Notre Europe, Novembre - Colloque international : "Quel
cadre pour les politiques agricoles, demain, en Europe et dans les pays en développement ?"
(Determinants of oil prices)
-“LNG in the Northwestern Coast of Mexico: Impact on Prices of Natural Gas in Both Sides of the USMexico Border », with A. Elizalde (Petróleos Mexicanos PEMEX) & J.Rosellón Diaz (Centro de
Investigación y Docencias Económicas CIDE), Frontera Norte, vol. 18, Julio Dic,.
-« Concentration : parallèle entre les Etats-Unis et l’Union Européenne », Les Echos Energie, Le point
de vue d’un expert, Mai (Concentration : similiratiries between the US and the EU)
- « Les transitions réglementaires électriques », with P. Geoffron, in Annales de la Régulation vol I.,
Bibliothèque de l’Institut André Tunc, Paris Sorbonne, Régulation des activités économiques et
sociales, Tome 9, L. vidal (ed.) Le droit de l’énergie et des réseaux, Editions LGDJ. pp. 419-437
(Regulatory transition in electricity markets)
- “Les Perspectives de Light, filiale d’EDF au Brésil”, Revue de l’Energie, July – August 2005, N° 566
(Perspectives of Light, subsidiary of EDF in Brazil).
- « L’énergie nucléaire face à la déréglementation de l’industrie électrique » with P. Zaleski, La Revue de
l’Energie, May - (Nuclear energy industry facing the deregulation)
- « L’émergence de pouvoir de marché dans les marchés électriques : Le cas des Etats-Unis », Economie
et Société, Série Energie - (Market power in electric market : the case of United States)
- « Nouvelle concurrence verticale entre producteurs et distributeurs français : L’enjeu des marques
des distributeurs», Petites Affiches – Law Review (New vertical competition between producers and
distributors in France : the case of distributor brand).
PARTICIPATIONS IN IAEE (International Association for Energy Economics) / USAEE (United States
Association of Energy Economics) CONFERENCES (IN ENGLISH)
- The 2nd Asian IAEE Conference- (November 2008, Perth, Australia) – “Concentration in the
European electricity and natural industries”.
- The 31rst IAEE Conference- International Association for Energy Economics (June 2008, Istanbul,
Turkey) – “Energy sector inquiry : Market power and concentration in the EU energy markets”,
with C. Le Henaff (Gaz de France).
- The 27th Annual North American Conference of the USAEE - United States Association for Energy
Economics (September 2007, Houston, TX, USA) – “Energy Security of Supply in France and in
Mexico: Similarities and Differences to better Understand its Future”, with A. Elizalde (PEMEX).
- The 30rd IAEE Conference- International Association for Energy Economics (February 2007,
Wellington, New Zealand) – “French perspectives in the emerging European energy policy”.
- The 26th Annual North American Conference of the USAEE - United States Association for Energy
Economics (September 2006, Ann Arbor, MI, USA) – “Is LNG a solution to security of supply? North
American and European perspectives”, with S. Trabelsi, Ph D Student.
- The 25th Annual North American Conference of the USAEE - United States Association for Energy
Economics (September 2005, Denver, CO, USA) – “LNG in the Northwestern Coast of Mexico:
Impact on Prices of Natural Gas in Both Sides of the US-Mexico Border”, with A. Elizalde
(PEMEX) & J.Rosellón Diaz (CIDE).
- The 24th Annual North American Conference of the USAEE - United States Association for Energy
Economics (July 2004, Washington DC, USA) – “Developing LNG in North America: impact on
prices of natural gas” with A. Elizalde (PEMEX).
- The 20th Annual North American Conference of the USAEE / IAEE - The structure of the energy
industries: the only constant is change- (August 1999, Orlando, Florida, USA)
- "The convergence of electric power and natural gas utilities in the US: which lessons for Europe? »
- "Why new distributed generation units might transform power industry's organization: the case of
gas micro turbines", Best Student Paper Award.
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CONFERENCES AND COMMUNICATIONS
2009
- Geopolitique du gaz naturel : choc de 2009 et evolutions possibles dans le Bassin Atlantique”,
Simpósio Brasil-França de Energia: Novos Atores, Novas Relações Geopolíticas e o Papel da
Agroenergia (Sao Paulo, Brazil, September)
-”Politiques énergétiques: comparaison France Bresil”, Conférence franco brésilienne :Les vraies
énergies du développement durable, Vargas Foundation EBAP (Escola Brasileira de Administração
Pública e de Empresas da Fundação Getulio Vargas) - (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September)
- « La geopolitique de l’energie : la place de l’Union Européenne par rapport à la politique énergétique
americaine », Université d’été 2009 du programme “Juriste Européen”, « Europe et Energie »,
Université Pantheon Assas (Septembre, Paris)
- Diversité des politiques énergétiques”, presentation in French, « En partenariat avec le Ministère de
l’Energie, des Mines, de l’Eau et de l’Environnement », La Federation de l’Energie, Les nouveaux
defis energtiques », (Casablanca, Morocco, October)
2008
- “Energy sector inquiry : market power and concentration in the EU energy markets” – with Carole Le
Henaff (GDF Suez), IGRC - International Gas union Research Conference Paris 2008 2007
- “Concentration movement in the European electricity and Natural Gas Markets » – Enerday Conference
on Energy Economics and Technology Market Development, Market Power, and Market Regulation,
(April, Dresden, Germany), Dresden University of Technology, Faculty of Economics and Management.
-“La concentration dans les industries de l’electricité et du gaz naturel en Europe” (Warsaw, Poland,
May), Szkola Glowna Handlowa w Warszawie, International Associaton for Economists speaking
French, Association Internationale des Economistes de langue francaise AIELF, “The concentration
wave in the European Electricity market” Communication in French.
- “The French electricity market in the EU”, (Mexico City, November 2005), Colegio Mexico, VIII
Conferencia Anual de la AMEE (planned but impossibility to go)
- “Privatization of French utilities” in collaboration with Professor P.Geoffron(Paris, April 2003),
French Tcheck Workshop in Applied Economics, Dauphine University.
-International Conference of CGEMP in collaboration with TU Delft Interfaculty Research Centre
for Design and Management of Infrastructures (Netherlands) - Market Power in Power Markets
(June 2002, Paris)- “Market power in electricity markets : which lesson from the United states?”
- EURISCO Conference - Energy choices and uncertainties– Economics Laboratory of Dauphine- 2002
(May)- “Market power in electricity markets” (in French)
- Energy debate in the French Senate (December 2001) - Deregulation of the American electricity
market
- “Emission permits in the European Community” , The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
Of Rice University - Global Warming Conference (6th - 8th of Sept 2000, Houston, TX, USA).
- "The effects of regulatory changes on the dynamic of power technologies» Proceedings of the World
Energy Council 17th Congress (Sept. 1998, Houston, Texas, USA).
SEMINARS
- “The European energy situation: how can a Member State influence the decisions ?“, Westminster
University, MBA (April & September, Paris 2009)
- “The European energy situation: how can a Member State influence the decisions ?“, Westminster
University, MBA (April & September, Paris )
“ World energy situation and the European Union energy situation” Centro de Investigación y Docencia
Económicas (C.I.D.E.) ( Mexico city, July 2007 & 2008) : Geopolitics of Energy- The political economy of non
renewable resources International lessons for Mexico –
- “Consequences of the French presidency “, Westminster University, MBA (Paris, April & sept
2008.)
-“The French natural gas market” (Rio de Janeiro, November 2006), Instituto de Economia da
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
-“The French natural gas market in the European environment” (Rio de Janeiro, November 2006,
2005 & 2004), Vargas Foundation EBAP (Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas
da Fundação Getulio Vargas).
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- “The French electricity market”, (Sydney, February 2006), Center for Energy and Environmental
Markets, University of New South Wales.
-“The French electricity market: Supply and demand” (Rio de Janeiro, November 2005), Vargas
Foundation EBAP (Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas da Fundação Getulio
Vargas).
- « Les politiques énergétiques en Europe et en France : repères et enjeux », EDF formation – Training
December 2004- February 2005 (4 presentations – 350 p)- Energy policy in Europe and in FranceCommunication in French.
LAST WORKING PAPERS - DOCUMENTS
- “French energy policy”, Scholarly project on the energy policy of the European Union, Georgia State
University, co-sponsored by the European Union Center of Excellence , Working Paper, (Atlantla,
Georgia, USA, 17-19 November 2010)
- « Relations franco allemandes dans l’énergie », sous la direction de J. Keppler avec K. Notz, Cahier de
l’IFRI Energie CERFA (French German relations in energy)
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