Geopolitics and Energy System Transformation: Managing the Messy Mix
We invite you to join for us for the launch of Professor Michael Bradshaw's new book.
Geopolitics and Energy System Transformation: Managing the Messy Mix
Date: Wednesday 18th February 2026
Location: Warwick Business School, The Shard, 13th Floor, London.
Event Schedule
Agenda
9:30 to 10:00 Arrival and Registration
10:00-11:00 Session 1: Introducing Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: Managing the Messy Mix
Professor Michael Bradshaw in conversation with Professor Caroline Kuzemko
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Session 2:
The (Geo-)politics of UK Energy Transformations
- Chair: Professor Caroline Kuzemko, University of Warwick
- Critical Minerals Statecraft: UK Minerals Diplomacy in an Era of Resource Competition and Climate Change, by Dr Natalie Ralph, University of Warwick & Professor Gavin Bridge, University of Durham
- The Decline and Stranding of the UK Gas System, by Dr Louis Fletcher, University of Warwick
- Green Industrial Strategy in UK and Global Contexts, by Professor Matthew Lockwood, University of Sussex
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Session 3:
Fragmentation, (de-)globalisation and energy transformations
Chair: Dr Stephanie Moura, University College Cork
- The Geoeconomics of Cleantech and Green Hydrogen, by Professor Andreas Goldthau, Erfurt
- Markets, and Domestic Politics in Latin America, by Dr. Jan Ickler, Erfurt University
- Professor Caroline Kuzemko, Warwick
15:30-16:00 Tea Break
16:00-17:00 Session 4:
Panel Discussion on Geopolitics and Energy System Transformation
Chair: Professor Michael Bradshaw, Warwick
- Michael Collins, Energy Intelligence
- Dr Morena Skalamera, Leiden University (TBC)
- Sîan Bradley, Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA)
- Beth Walker, E3G
17:00 – 18:00 Drinks Reception
Meet The Author
Michael Bradshaw is Professor of Global Energy in the Strategy and International Business Group at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He is trained as a Geographer, holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia (Canada), and has served as Vice-President of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Recently, he completed a two-year secondment with Shell Scenarios as a Senior Scenario Planner (2022-24). He is presently an Associate Fellow at the Environment and Society Centre, Chatham House. He authored Global Energy Dilemmas (2014), which examined the links between energy security, globalisation, and climate change. He is a co-editor of "Global Energy: Issues, Potentials and Policy Implications" (2015), and a co-author of "Energy and Society" (2018) and "Natural Gas" (2020). His ongoing work with the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) includes a new project on the geopolitics of fossil fuel phase-down, and he is currently writing a book on the "Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation," to be published by Bristol University Press in early 2026.
He is the author of The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: Managing the Messy Mix.
The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: Managing The Messy Mix
Our global energy system needs radical and speedy transformation in order to meet climate change targets. This shift is currently conceived in two ways: a ‘high carbon transition’ away from fossil fuels and a ‘low carbon transition’, the development of a low carbon energy system. This accessible book guides us through the 'messy mix', the perilous ground that sits between the present and the future energy systems.
Evidence-based and solutions-focused, this is a novel framework to help manage geopolitical challenges and enable a swift, just, orderly and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.
You can find the book HERE.
