Maria Van der Hoeven To Head International Energy Agency
The Governing Board of the International Energy Agency (IEA) today announced that their 28 members have selected Maria Van der Hoeven of the Netherlands, the former Dutch Minister of the Economy, to be the Agency’s next Executive Director.
Ms. Van der Hoeven will succeed Nobuo Tanaka of Japan effective September 1, 2011.
The United States thanks Mr. Tanaka for his service and offers its congratulations to Ms. Van der Hoeven.
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said, “We congratulate Maria Van der Hoeven on her new role as Executive Director of the IEA. Her leadership will be essential to build upon the Agency’s important achievements under Nobuo Tanaka, especially supporting the transition to a clean energy future. Recent weeks have also shown that the IEA’s traditional role of monitoring energy markets, data and trends is no less important today than it was in the past.”
The IEA was created in the wake of the oil embargo of 1973, and it provides a critical mechanism for coordinated international response to oil market emergencies.
In recent years, IEA has expanded beyond its original emergency response function and its role collecting and analyzing energy market data.
Today, the IEA also devotes a significant part of its efforts to understanding the opportunities for member countries to pursue the transition 21st-century energy systems.
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