Carlos Fernández Alvarez
Carlos Fernández Alvarez
International Energy Agency
Carlos Fernández Alvarez is a Mining Engineer (Madrid Polytechnic University) Specialist in Energy and Fuels with more than 20 years of experience in the energy sector. He joined the International Energy Agency as Senior Coal Analyst in 2010. His current job is focused on monitoring coal markets, as well as technology and policy developments. In particular, he is responsible for the Medium-Term Coal Market Report publication and is an officer for IEA’s Coal Industry Advisory Board. He also contributes to other IEA publications, like the World Energy Outlook, IEA’s flagship publication.
Between 2000 and 2010, Carlos worked for the Spanish Government in different capacities. From 2007, he was Director of the Spanish Coal Agency, the body responsible for the coal sector and the alternative development of the coal mining areas in Spain. From 2003 to 2007, he was Deputy Director for Mining. And from 2001 to 2003 he was an Energy Adviser participating in the discussion of various gas, electricity and ecogeneration topics.
From 1991 to 2000, he was an energy consultant, working in such fields as Probabilistic Safety Assessment, R&D on passive designs, control-room design and radiation control during refuelling.
He has been a Board Member of several companies and bodies, among which, HUNOSA, a Spanish coal and electricity producer, and the Bureau for Liquidation of Electricity Compensation.
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