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May 28 | NCAC May 2025 Webinar: Shell 2025 Energy Security Scenarios
Presented by the National Capital Area Chapter of USAEE
Please join the USAEE National Capital Area Chapter for a presentation by Shell Chief Economist Dr. Mallika Ishwaran.
Dr. Ishwaran will present and discuss Shell's 2025 Energy Security Scenarios:
Shell has been developing possible visions of the future since the early 1970s, helping generations of Shell leaders, academics, governments and businesses to explore ways forward and make better decisions. Shell Scenarios ask “what if?” questions, encouraging leaders to consider events that may only be remote possibilities and stretch their thinking.
In The 2025 Energy Security Scenarios: Energy and artificial intelligence, we reimagine our Archipelagos and Horizon scenarios in the context of a world using AI. We have also added a third scenario, Surge, which explores the prospect of a new wave of economic growth driven by productivity improvements catalysed by AI.
In Archipelagos, technology development is hampered by global concerns about resource, border and trade security. Horizon takes a normative approach to investigate what the world would need to do to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 and global warming limited to 1.5°C by the end of the century.
In her role as Shell’s chief economist, Mallika Ishwaran advises on macroeconomic issues, economic trends, and related policy matters to shape Shell’s long-term scenario outlooks. She leads strategic engagements on energy transitions with national and city governments across the world, notably a multi-year collaboration with the Chinese government. Mallika also advises on Shell’s strategic policy and advocacy approach to support the company’s energy transition strategy. She sits on a range of external advisory boards.
Prior to joining Shell, she was Deputy Director at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs responsible for evidence and analysis across the environment, food, and green economy portfolio. She has held senior positions across the UK government, including at the Cabinet Office as Head of Policy Analysis for the 2009 G20 London Summit. Before that, Mallika worked in senior economics and policy roles in the USA.
Mallika holds Ph.D. and M.S degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.A. from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University.
This event is free for NCAC-USAEE members. The webinar Zoom link will be found at the bottom of the registration confirmation email. Non-members are encouraged to become NCAC annual members for only $40 (and then sign-up for the event for free on the website calendar). The registration fee is $10 for those who would prefer to join the webinar without becoming members.
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