Oxford Speaker Series Event: Can the Trump administration stop the clean energy transition?

In his first year back in office, Trump has removed subsidies for clean energy and EVs (through the Big Beautiful Bill), slashed funds for clean energy R&D and critical grid infrastructure, blocked opening of already-built offshore wind farms, and announced the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement. Energy policy, trade policy, and even diplomatic policy have been reoriented around promotion of fossil fuels as part of an ‘energy dominance’ agenda. But what is the long-term impact of these policies on the global clean energy transition? If U.S. policy has been one important catalyst for that transition, it has only been one factor among many. In this talk, we will explore global clean energy trends, discuss what economic and social science literature have to say about the drivers of energy transition, and talk about the future interplay of specific policies and new and existing energy technologies.

About the speaker:

Anders Hove is Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies China Energy Programme. Previously, from 2018-2022, he served as project director at GIZ for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)-funded Sino-German Energy Transition Project, while also serving as a non-resident fellow at Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) and a fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. He worked in Beijing from 2010-2022 and has more than 20 years of public and private sector experience related to energy policy and markets, including nine years on Wall Street and 12years in China. He began his career as an energy policy analyst with the Rand Corporation in Washington, DC, then performed equity research in the electric utilities and oil services sectors with Deutsche Bank AG and Jefferies and Co. In 2007-2009, he worked for the hedge fund Two Sigma Investments looking at private equity investments in clean energy technologies and projects, particularly solar. Hove has both a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from MIT, and he is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is the author of numerous reports and articles related to the energy sector in China.

WHEN

Saturday, November 22, 2025 at 03:00 PM London Time

WHERE

St Edmunds Hall, Doctorow 1 Room
Queens Lane
Oxford OX1 4AR
United Kingdom
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CONTACT

Nicole Satullo

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