Steivan Defilla
Steivan Defilla
Energy Charter Secretariat
Steivan Defilla is Director in the Energy Charter Secretariat since September 2010. Steivan holds a Bachelor degree in Economics and a Master degree in Statistics from the Neuchâtel University, Switzerland. He also holds a Postgraduate Degree on Energy (Federal Polytechnical Institute Lausanne) and one in Public Administration (Institute for Public Administration Lausanne).
Prior to his appointment at the Energy Charter Secretariat, Steivan worked for the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in Switzerland as Senior Energy Advisor on foreign energy policy and on the Swiss electricity sector reform. Steivan has also chaired the Energy Charter Group on Trade in 2000-04 and was actively involved in the negotiations of the Energy Charter Trade Amendment (entered into force in 2010).
From 1995 to 1999 he was desk officer for Middle Eastern countries in the Swiss Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs and was among others involved in WTO accession of Jordan and Oman, debt rescheduling at the Paris Club and UN sanctions enforcement against Iraq.
In 1991-92 Steivan has been diplomatic attaché at the Swiss Embassy in Moscow.
From 1990 to 1991 he worked in the electricity industry (EOS, now Alpiq) on synchronous interconnection between East and West Europe.
Between 1987 and 1990 Steivan worked as scientific assistant at the Federal Polytechnical Institute Lausanne on an electricity project for Senegal and lectured on systems analysis at the econometrics department of the University of Geneva. Steivan is United World Colleges laureate, speaks seven languages and is author of a book and numerous publications on energy policy.
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