Radu Dudău

Radu Dudău is co-founder and director of The Energy Policy Group (EPG) which is a Bucharest-based non-profit, independent think-tank specializing in energy policy, market analytics and energy strategy, grounded in February 2014. EPG’s regional focus is Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Basin, yet its analyses are informed by wider trends and processes at global and EU levels. EPG facilitates informed dialogue between public decisionmakers, energy companies, and the broader public. It looks at governmental energy policies and their eects, at market events and tendencies, and at broader strategic processes with economic, security, and environmental impact. EPG’s approach is consistently evidence-based.
Radu Dudau is also Associate Professor of International Relations at Bucharest University. Between November 2015-January 2017 he was a personal adviser to the Energy Minister, responsible for developing a New Energy Strategy. From 2006 to 2010 he was Deputy Director at the Romanian Diplomatic Institute (Ministry of Foreign Aairs). He graduated in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Iași. He holds a Dr. Phil. degree in Philosophy (magna cum laude) from Konstanz University (Germany) and a PhD in Political Science (International Relations) (summa cum laude) from the National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA, Bucharest). He was a Fulbright Fellow with the National Security Program at Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2011), a New Europe College Fellow at the Danish Institute of International Relations (Copenhagen, 2006) and an OSI/FCO-Chevening scholar at Oxford University (1999-2000). His main expertise focus is energy security and natural resource geopolitics.