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Dennis Kumetat
London School of
Economics
LSE Kuwait Programme PhD
Scholar
Department of
Geography and Environment
Research keywords:
Renewable Energy Policies in Arab OPEC states
Other keywords:
Algeria, UAE; Climate Change
and Security Affairs, Lebanon, LSE Kuwait
Programme
Contact point:
d.kumetat@lse.ac.uk
Background
Dennis Kumetat
holds an MA in
Arab and Middle Eastern Studies
from the
American University of Beirut, Lebanon,
and an M.A. (magister artium) in History,
Philosophy and Theology from the
University of
Cologne, Germany. He is currently completing his
PhD in Geography and Environment under the
supervision of
Dr. Michael Mason.
Dennis' current
research is concerned with renewable energy
policy models in Arab OPEC states. With a
special focus on Algeria and the United Arab
Emirates. Having chosen a comparative angle for
his research he attempts to develop models for
large-scale renewable electricity integration
into the mentioned energy systems. Although
primarily being concerned with national energy
policies he takes into account landscape level
developments such as the Desertec Project and
the Mediterranean Solar as well. On the
conceptual level, his work revolves around the
question in how far systems of policy innovation
and energy governance developed in the EU can be
applied in entirely different policy frameworks
such as the OAPEC states.
He frequently
speaks on renewable energy related events, most
recently, he gave briefing to the MENA energy
group of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
and was on a panel of a forum on Algeria and
transcontinental electricity exports at the
Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin.
Before coming to
LSE in 2008, Dennis worked for the
German
Oriental Institute Beirut, the parliamentary energy
spokesperson of the German Green Party in the Parliament of
North-Rhine Westphalia,(Reiner
Priggen), and the Middle East and
Africa Section of the
German Institute for
International and Security Affairs (SWP).
He had a visiting
fellowship at the
Chaire Moyen
Orient-Mediterranee at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Science Po)
and is a visiting
researcher in the energy team of the
Wuppertal Institute for
Climate, Energy and Environment, as well as the
Dubai School of Government. He is a project
manager in a renewable energy workshop series in
the Maghreb and consults the Green Arab Climate
Forum, Jordan.
Teaching
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2009-10:
Graduate Teaching Assistant, LSE
Department of Geography & Environment Course
taught: GY 220 (“Environment: Science and
Society”)
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2009-10:
LSE Postgraduate Certificate for Higher
Education (accociate level)
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08/2010:
Summer School Course Convenor, German
Protestant Merit Foundation, 7day seminar on
“Concepts of Sustainability” (with S.
Schiele)
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07/2010 Summer School Teacher,
Istanbul: Heinrich Böll Foundation:
Intelligent Energy MENA Regional Summer
School
Recent Publications
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(With N. Supersberger, B. Brandt et al.) Algeria - A Future Supplier of
Electricity From Renewable Energies for Europe? Algeria's Perspective and
Current European Approaches. A joint study by the Wuppertal Institute and
the Centre de Recherche en Economie Appliquee pour le Developpement (CREAD),
Algiers. (project
homepage -
final report)
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Energy Systems in OPEC Countries of the Middle East
and North Africa. A System Analytic Comparison of Nuclear Power, Renewable Energies
and Energy Efficiency. Wuppertal: Wuppertal Institute/Adelphi Consult: 2009
(with N. Supersberger, D. Tänzler, K. Fritzsche, D. Schüwer, D.
Vallentin, B. Brand).download pdf
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Lebanese Perceptions of German Middle East Policies and the German Participation
in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Results of a
Quantitative Study. Working Paper, German Institute for Strategic and
Security Affairs, 12/2008.
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The Failure of German Business and Economic Policy Towards Iraq in the 1930s: An
Example of the German Arms and Steel Company Otto Wolff, Cologne. Al-Abhath,
Journal of the American University of Beirut, vol. 55-56, 2007/08,
147-173.
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Das Scheitern
deutscher Unternehmen und deutscher Auswärtiger Politik im Nahen Osten: Irak,
Ägypten, Saudi-Arabien.
Diskussionspapiere zur
Volkswirtschaft des Vorderen Orients
102. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 2008.
order
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Religion und Philosophie
im Widerstreit? Studien zur
Interkulturellen Philosophie 18. Nordhausen: Bautz, 2008 (with
C.
Bickmann, M. Wirtz, H.-J. Scheidgen, eds.).
order
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(With W. Lacher): The security of energy
infrastructure and supply in North Africa: a comparative assessment of
hydrocarbons and renewable energies. Energy Policy (forthcoming)
Newspaper Articles
- Der Strom, der aus der Wüste kam.
Zenith - Zeitschrift für den Orient - Branchenreport
Wasserwirtschaft und Umwelttechnik 2010, pp.
78-82.
- (with N.
Supersberger) Nuclear energy vs.
renewable energy and energy efficiency in
the MENA region – A brief exchange of
arguments. Heinrich Böll Foundation Arab Middle East Office, 09/2010.
weblink
Conferences & Workshops
Organizations
- Initiator and co-organizer
of "At the Crossroads -
Pathways of Renewable and Nuclear Energy in North Africa. A joint expert
workshop by the LSE-Alcoa Foundation Programme and the Wuppertal Institute
for Climate, Environment and Energy"
more information
- Initiator and co-organizer
of the conference
"Actors
of Peace? The German Army, NGOs and Corporations in (post)Crisis Regions:
Experiences from ex-Yugoslavia, DR Congo and Lebanon." Venue: University
of Cologne, (German "Friedensakteure 2007")
more information
- co-organizer of the
international conference "Philosophie
und Religion im Widerstreit?
- Eine interkulturelle - philosophische Annäherung". Venue:
University of Cologne, July 13-16, 2006.
more information
Presentations (selection)
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"German-Arab
Economic Relations in the 1930s" Annual Conference of the German
Research Committee on the Contemporary Middle East (DAVO), Hamburg, Germany,
2005
- "Climate
Change in the Persian Gulf - Regional Security, Sustainability Strategies and
Research Needs." - Paper for the Conference
Climate Change, Social Stress and Violent Conflict - State of the Art and
Research Needs, Hamburg University, November 19 & 20, 2009.
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pdf
- "Renewable Energy Policy in the Arab OPEC
States: Current Developments and Conceptual Approaches." - Paper for the
Conference Energy transitions in an interdependent world: what and
where are the future social science research agendas?, University of
Sussex Energy Group, February 25 & 26, 2010.
- "Desertec: History, European
Conception, North African Realities" - Paper for the
Seminar Energy of the Future, Foundation of German Business (SdW),
University of Cambridge, February 27, 2010.
- "Renewable Energy Policies in the
Gulf States: The way ahead." - Paper for the
Conference Adaptation and Innovation in the Middle East, The Dubai
Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard
Kennedy School of Government, May 3 & 4, 2010.
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- "Desertec: European Conceptions -
Policy Options for Algeria." - Paper for the
Algerian Photovoltaics Workshop, University of Sciences and Technology
Mohamed Boudiaf; Oran, Algeria,May 10 & 11, 2010.
- "The multiple dimensions of
(renewable) energy policy: the example of the Gulf States."
Paper for the panel The Future of Gulf Governance: Security, Climate,
Energy at the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies,
Barcelona, Spain,
July 19 - 24, 2010.
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Editorships
- Managing Guest
Editor, Energy Policy, Special Edition "At the Crossroads -
Pathways of Renewable and Nuclear Energy in North Africa" (publication date 2011)
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