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Jos Delbeke

Climate Chair, European Investment Bank

School of Transnational Governance, EUI

Jos Delbeke holds the first EIB Chair on Climate Policy and International Carbon Markets and was previously Director-General of the European Commission’s DG for Climate Action (2010-2018). Delbeke was involved in setting the EU’s climate and energy targets for 2020 and 2030, and in developing EU legislation on the Emissions Trading System (ETS), cars and fuels, air quality, emissions from big industrial installations and chemicals (REACH). He developed Europe's International Climate Change strategy and was the European Commission's chief negotiator at the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, playing a key role in the EU's implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and in negotiations on the Paris Agreement.

 

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14 November 2025

Europe’s energy future: balancing climate goals and competitiveness

Bruegel’s 20th anniversary event in Brussels, jointly organised with the National Bank of Belgium

Wouter Bleukx, Tom Brijs, Grégoire Dallemagne, Jos Delbeke, William D'Haeseleer, Frédéric Dunon, Simeon Hagspiel, Sigrid Jourdain, Michael Liebreich, Antonio Lopez-Nicolas, Pierre-Laurent Lucille, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Clara Poletti, Laurens van Reijen, Dorothée Rouzet, Émeline Spire, Simone Tagliapietra, Kurt Vandenberghe, Markus Wilthaner, Pierre Wunsch, Georg Zachmann and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

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06 September 2022

Bruegel Annual Meetings, 6-7 September 2022

The Annual Meetings are Bruegel's flagship event which gathers high-level speakers to discuss the economic topics that affect Europe and the world.

Piotr Arak, Vincent Aussilloux, Muhamad Chatib Basri, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Brando Benifei, Damian Boeselager, Laurence Boone, Nadia Calviño, William Carter, Rebecca Christie, Grégory Claeys, Uri Dadush, Zsolt Darvas, Guy Debelle, Jo De Boeck, Sławomir Dębski, Jos Delbeke, Margarita Delgado, Maria Demertzis, Karolina Ekholm, Jens Eisenschmidt, Marion Finke, Alicia García-Herrero, Paolo Gentiloni, Kristalina Georgieva, Nicola Giammarioli, Anabel González, Arancha González Laya, Ricardo Hausmann, Douglas Irwin, Joana Jacinto, Patrick Jenkins, Alexandra Jour-Schroeder, Ditte Juul Jørgensen, Sigrid Kaag, Katya Klinova, Annamaria Lusardi, Joanna Maćkowiak-Pandera, Eva Maydell, Mairead McGuinness, Jan Mischke, Carlo Monticelli, Frederic Neumann, Françoise Nicolas, Laura Nurski, Ebru Özdemir, Tuomas Saarenheimo, André Sapir, Andrea Sironi, Marek Skawiński, Francesco Starace, Philipp Steinberg, Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Alexander Stubb, Arvind Subramanian, Simone Tagliapietra, Amaryllis Verhoeven, Nicolas Véron, Reinhilde Veugelers, Nicola Villa, Claire Waysand, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Sabine Weyand, Guntram B. Wolff, Catherine Woollard, Georg Zachmann and Jeromin Zettelmeyer