Episode Two

About Questions for the future - Gets Personal

In a new format within the Questions for the future series, we go one-on-one with energy ‘A-listers’ for a deeper understanding of their views and visions for the future.

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With Guest:

Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director, IEA

In this episode, we get a personal invite into one of the best offices in the French capital. The executive director of the International Energy Agency, Nobuo Tanaka shares his close-up view of the Eifel tower and speaks openly with CNBC presenter Steve Sedgwick about the increasing complexity of his job.

The IEA started life as an "Energy Nato", the brainchild of Henry Kissinger, but since then the politics of the world energy market has changed radically.

Tanaka presides over an emergency stockpile of oil for the members of OECD, but with the price of oil at record highs, complex climate change issues at play and the changing balance of oil consuming countries, the IEA faces an evolving and broadening mandate. Tanaka discusses how they hope to get this balance right and his vision for lasting energy solutions.