Dan leads the newly create Tracking Sustainable Transitions unit within the World Energy Outlook, which tracks how policy measures are actually moving the needle on clean energy transitions, energy access, and energy employment. He was one of the lead author’s on the IEA’s Sustainable Recovery report, the IEA’s Sustainable Recovery Tracker, and coordinated IEA’s co-custodianship on Tracking Progress on Sustainable Development Goal 7.1: Universal Access. Dan also oversees the employment and parts of the demand analysis in the annual World Energy Outlook. Prior to joining the IEA, Dan worked at the Rocky Mountain Institute in their Beijing office, leading their Power Market Reform program, and also in Colorado, working on regional energy transition plans.

Timur Gül is Head of the Energy Technology Policy Division (ETP) at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris. The division is responsible analysing the current state and future prospects of a range of clean energy technologies across different energy sectors. Prior to his current assignment, he was a lead author of the World Energy Outlook, the IEA’s flagship publication, and coordinated energy modelling work related to future energy demand. Before his time at the IEA, Timur Gül was a researcher at Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. Timur Gül holds a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. In addition, he holds a Masters degree in Environmental Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm, Sweden, and a Diploma in Environmental Engineering from Stuttgart University, Germany.

Dr. Constanze Wang is leading AHK China’s Government Affairs & Advocacy area. Previously, she managed the integration of a Chinese state-owned enterprise with a German mid-sized company in the cement industry. For her PhD, she did extensive research on knowledge transfer in Sino-German cooperation.