ENERGY ANALYSIS
In order to understand the Middle East, it helps to explore the energy dimension of this resource rich region.
Since the year 2000, Karin Kneissl lectures on geopolitics of oil and natural gas. She has been teaching energy related topics, inter alia, at the National Defense College Vienna, the Military Academy, the Diplomatic Academy etc. For the OSCE, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, she assumed several missions to Central Asia and completed studies on the political and economic role of natural gas in the area. Among the universities which invite her as guest-lecturer are: Université Saint Joseph in Beirut, the European Business School EBS in the Frankfurt region, the Academy of Sciences of Slovenia.
In spring 2006, her book "Der Energiepoker" was published by the FinanzBuch Verlag in Munich. Two years later a second revised edition was launched. This book has become a reference in various business and academic circles. Karin Kneissl conducts briefings on trends in the energy business for companies in Austria, Germany, Turkey, Iran and beyond. OPEC, as well as energy developments from the Middle East to Central Asia and also subsaharan Africa are her regular topics of research. To present the bigger picture in her lectures, she follows attentively the electricity market and the role of renewables. The latter two topics, however, are not the main focus of her publications.
As an independent analyst she participates on a regular level in commodity seminars and energy debates. Karin Kneissl finances research and journeys by herself, in order to conduct her studies in an independent way.
In June 2021 elected as independent director of the board of Rosneft.
On May 20th, she resigned from the Board after she had informed the company already in early March that she was not running for a second mandate. https://www.rosneft.ru/press/releases/item/210795/
Rosneft
The election of Karin Kneissl as independent director in the Board of Directors received strong international media coverage
New director says Rosneft has exploration cost advantage
Neue „Rosneft“-Aufsichtsrätin Karin Kneissl: Endlich Frau in Spitzenamt eines Erdöl-Weltkonzerns
EVENTS
Antalya Diplomacy Forum
Upon the invitation by the Government of the Republic of Turkey Karin Kneissl attends the Antalya Diplomacy Forum from June 18th to 20th 2021 as a part of the energy panel.
OPEC workshop
The future of road and maritime transport shapes the oil-market - we discussed this at OPEC’s workshop. Will technology be the answer to our mobility or will strategic commodities continue to have their say?The future of road and maritime transport shapes the oil-market - we discussed this at OPEC’s workshop. Will technology be the answer to our mobility or will strategic commodities continue to have their say?
18. September 2019 - Vienna, Austria
OPEC Insight
Prior to the OPEC Ministerial Council on May 25, 2017 Karin Kneissl participate in the following OPEC Insight debate.
OPEC Oil Insight Debate
Karin Kneissl participated in the OPEC Oil Insight Debate at the eve of the OPEC ministerial meeting on Dec. 4th 2015 in Vienna
Citywire, Munich, 1.12.2015
Karin Kneissl was keynote speaker at the Fund Manager meeting hosted by Citywire in Munich on Dec. 1, 2015. Her topic was the current state of the oil-market.
2015 Wealth Management Retreat
Karin Kneissl was keynote speaker at the 2015 Wealth Management Retreat organized by Citywire in Hertfordshire.
The topic of her lecture was the role for geopolitics in an oversupplied oil-market.
Interview by Richard Lander
"Prepare for a Balkanisation of the Middle East", Review by Selin Bucak
INTERVIEWS
There is no such thing as a European energy policy
Lars Schall, 11. September 2014
"The crux of today's civilization is energy"
Energy Security and the Geopolitical dimensions of Fossil Fuel Availability
Podiumsdiskussion aspo2012 (Video)
PUBLICATIONS
Karin Kneissl: EU energy crisis is homemade, thanks to fixation on climate change while ignoring other aspects
The many reasons for the current energy price crisis: it is home-made.
Will the alleged Alexey Navalny poisoning sink the Nord Stream 2 pipeline? It might, but it shouldn’t
Virtual OPEC+ meetings regulating a paper oil market can lead to slipping commitment and more volatility
The car is a symbol of freedom and mobility. Covid-19 isn’t going to change that
In an evolving multipolar world, OPEC’s role becomes more vital
Dr. Karin Kneissl: "Uncertainty in an oversupplied oil market"
When importers turn to exporting oil and gas
COURSES