Hans-Holger Rogner

Dr Hans-Holger Rogner's current work in the IAEA focuses on the contributions to sustainable energy development of different energy supply and demand options, capacity building in energy-environment planning in developing countries, and nuclear knowledge management, including the role of the IAEA's International Nuclear Information System (INIS).

Dr Rogner received an MSc in Industrial Engineering (1975) and a PhD in Energy Economics (1981). He started his career at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, concentrating on global energy system modelling, energy resource and technology assessments. From 1990-1997, he directed the System Analysis Group's work on hydrogen energy systems at the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems, University of Victoria, Canada. He joined the IAEA in 1997 as Section Head, Planning and Economic Studies Section, leading work on comparative assessments of different energy demand and supply options, nuclear energy, climate change and sustainable development. Since 2005, he directs the IAEA programme on Capacity Building and Nuclear Knowledge Maintenance for Sustainable Energy Development.

He has contributed to two parliamentary inquiry commissions of the German Bundestag on atmospheric protection, served several times as a lead author or convening lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, represented the IAEA in activities of the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), collaborated on major global energy analyses including Global Energy Perspectives, a joint study by IIASA and the World Energy Council (WEC), and the World Energy Assessment prepared by the United Nations Development Programme, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and WEC.