Philippe Charlez is born in Belgium in 1956. He is Mining Engineer from Ecole Polytechnique de Mons and PHD from Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.

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He was during 15 years Rock Mechanics Expert for a major Oil & Gas Company dealing with various problems related to hydraulic fracturing, wellbore stability, reservoir compaction and engineering geology.

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Philippe then occupies operational positions in drilling (Scotland), large Mature Field Asset Management (Angola & France) and more recently Stakeholder Relation (Kazakhstan) and shales oil & gas.

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Philippe Charlez is the author of several books on energy and more than 80 specific papers. In 2017, he has published "Croissance, énergie et climat : dépasser la quadrature du cercle" (De Boek Supérieur Publishing).

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Philippe Charlez is the Energy Expert of the Institut Sapiens - a liberal French Think Tank. He teaches Energy Transition at SiencePo, MinesParisTech, CIFE and Dauphine.