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Graduate Seminar Series: Helge Haldorsen
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Helge Haldorsen, Senior Fellow, Switch Energy Alliance
Title:
The Dual Challenge: Energy for All and Environmental Protection
Abstract:
Human and societal development depend on energy. Over the last 250 years we have seen that access to affordable energy correlates with human flourishing – that is, if you and your country are positioned at a favorable point on these ‘energy-good thing’ correlations. If you are not, there are 17 ‘howevers’: UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). We will focus on SDG-7: Affordable and clean energy (for all) and SDG-13: Climate action (on several levels). This is because: 1) 2.4 billion people do not have access to clean cooking, 2) 775 million people do not have access to electricity and 3.5 billion have unreliable electricity, 3) Global indoor and ambient pollution killed 9 million people prematurely in 2019, and 4) Global GHG emissions and the global average temperature continue to tick up with IPCC in a series of reports in 2021 and 2022 warning of dire climate change consequences: more frequent and intense drought, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans and weather events becoming more frequent and severe).
Bio:
Helge Hove Haldorsen received his MSc from the Norwegian Institute of Technology and his PhD from The University of Texas at Austin, both in Reservoir Engineering. In his 40+ year career in the energy industry, Helge served in a variety of professional and management positions with ExxonMobil, BP, Norsk Hydro and Equinor. His positions span from Chief Reservoir Engineer, via GM International E&P, to VP Investor Relations North America. Helge is currently a Senior Fellow at the Switch Energy Alliance, an advisor at Bain & Company and the CEO of Wichmann WH&M. Dr. Haldorsen served as the 2015 president of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He was a professor of industrial mathematics at the University of Oslo and a second lieutenant in the Royal Norwegian Navy. See Helge’s full CV.
Location:
CPE 2.204
Questions:
Trevor Oxley