• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Michaela Spaeth

German Federal Foreign Office

Deputy Director General for Energy and Climate Policy

Michaela Spaeth is Deputy Director General for Energy and Climate Policy, Business and Human Rights at the Federal Foreign Office. Michaela is a career diplomat. Her professional path has focused on economic and global issues and climate policy. She has worked at German missions in Dhaka, London, Beijing, Warsaw and Vienna, the office of Tom Koenigs, Deputy Special Representative for Civil Administration of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo and at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London. Michaela holds Masters’s degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge. Degree in Economic and Social History, Political Science and Early Modern and Modern History at the University of Freiburg and the Institut d’études politiques in Paris.

Sessions With Michaela Spaeth

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 05:55pm - 06:30pm (CST) / -

    Plenary - Europe, Russia and US: Who drives Europe's energy security?

    Geopolitics/Policy/Regulatory

    European energy security—particularly where natural gas is concerned—has recently been the subject of high-level geopolitical debate. From the perspective of many in Europe, the continent’s gas supply has never been more secure, thanks to major EU gas market reforms over the past 15 years and, at present, plentiful supply in the global LNG market. However, the United States sees threats to European energy security from new Russian pipelines—a view shared by some countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, the continued growth of renewable generation in Europe points toward the localization of energy production in the long term. How secure is Europe’s energy supply? Can the US play a constructive role in Europe's energy security? Should Russia be viewed as part of the problem, or can it be part of the solution?