Energy Matters in Australia, Germany, New Zealand and the South Pacific
Edited by Dr Frank Umbach & Eva U Wagner
Dr Frank Umbach
Research Director of the European Centre for Climate, Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS), King‘s College
Biography
Dr Frank Umbach is the Research Director of the European Centre for Climate, Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS), King‘s College in London. He is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at the Nanyan Technological University (NTU) in Singapore; a Visiting Professor on “EU Energy (External) Policies and Governance” at the College of Europe in Natolin/Warsaw (Poland) and an Executive Advisor of Proventis Partners GmbH, Munich (a M&A company). He also works as an international consultant for governments, international organisations (i.e. NATO), energy, consulting and investment companies (i.e. Gerson Lehrman Group/(GLG) on international energy security, policies and markets, geopolitical risks, cyber security and critical (energy) infrastructure protection/CEIP, as well as (maritime) security policies in Asia-Pacific.
Moreover, he is the author of more than 500 publications in more than 30 countries worldwide. He has published regularly for the Geopolitical Intelligence Service (GIS), Liechtenstein since 2011, and is the author of the study “Energy Security in a Digitalized World and its Geostrategic Implications”, Study of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)/Regional Project: Energy Security and Climate Change Asia-Pacific (RECAP), Hongkong, September 2018, 171 pp. (kas.de/wf/doc/kas_53447-1522-2-30.pdf).