World Energy Council France: Energy Ambassadors | Dr. Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General & CEO of the World Energy Council

Energy Ambassadors | Dr. Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General & CEO of the World Energy Council

Organised by World Energy Council France

On Tuesday, 17 February 2026, from 6.30 pm to 8:00 pm (Paris time)

For the next ‘Energy Ambassadors’ meeting, an informal dialogue with a leader from the energy sector, our Secretary General Marie-Line Vaiani, and the Young Energy Professionals (YEP France) group will be talking to Dr Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General & CEO of the World Energy Council.

Angela Wilkinson will talk about her career (*) and share her vision of global energy issues.

(*) Angela Wilkinson is one of the world’s leading global energy futures experts, an experienced energy executive, a distinguished Oxford scholar and a published author. She has 30 years of experience in leading national, international and global multi-stakeholder transformation initiatives on a wide range of economic, energy, climate and sustainable development-related challenges.

Angela has worked as a senior executive in the public, private, academic and civic sectors. She was appointed Secretary General and CEO of the World Energy Council in 2019. Angela joined the Council in 2017 to create a practical energy transition leaders toolkit and direct a new strategic insights programme. Prior to that, Angela led an upgrade in strategic foresight at the OECD, based in Paris. Prior corporate experience includes decades in Royal Dutch Shell and British Gas plc.

Angela is a Fellow of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Centre for Strategic Foresight and a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS). She has published four books and numerous articles. Angela has a PhD in Physics.

Invitation-only event – in person, in English. To register, please click here. 

For more information, please write to comm@wec-france.org.