More than 150 years ago, French science fiction writer Jules Verne imagined a future with the rise of electricity and the use of hydrogen as an energy vector to substitute fossil fuel. The need for urgent Climate action is now accelerating the rate of electrification, with hydrogen as a potential key enabler of the overall decarbonisation.

Dr. Henri PAILLERE has over 25 years of experience in the nuclear energy sector, and is currently working as Head of the Planning and Economic Studies Section at the International Atomic Energy Agency which he joined in February 2020.


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https://instagram.com/apehousestudios Dr. Henri PAILLERE has over 25 years of experience in the nuclear energy sector, and is currently working as Head of the Planning and Economic Studies Section at the International Atomic Energy Agency which he joined in February 2020. Before that, Henri worked at the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency in Paris between 2011 and 2019, as Senior Analyst and Deputy Head of the Division of Nuclear Technology Development and Economics. Prior to these positions, he worked as R&D Program Manager at the Alstom Power Company and at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in various positions. A French national, he holds a PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics (for aeronautics applications) from the Free University of Brussels, a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and an Engineering Diploma from the French Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees (ENSTA). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx