Qatar University (QU) signed several MoU’s with prominent universities in Russia on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2021) in Russia, in the fields of scientific research, education and culture.
St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). Panellists in the session
Energy Sector Transformations discussed how the rapid growth in energy consumption, together with increasingly pressing requirements to protect the environment, are creating new development scenarios at a time of transformation for the global fuel and energy sector.
The panellists included Alexander Novak, Russian deputy prime minister and a former energy minister; Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, Saudi Arabia s minister of energy; Angela Wilkinson, secretary general and CEO of the World Energy Council (WEC), Rae Kwon Chung, recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize as a member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and Sama Bilbao y León, director general of World Nuclear Association. The session was moderated by Sergey Brilev, deputy director and anchor of the