This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. The talk is about the leadership change that is required to maximize the potential for energy efficiency within in our society.

Stijn Santen holds an MSc in chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Amsterdam and has worked for 18 years in Shell lately as global business manager CO2 before starting his company CO2-Net B.V. in 2005. He is the architect of the first commercially successful CO2 pipeline projects; Shell-Omya (1998) and Shell-OCAP (2005), where the latter is one the largest energy efficiency projects implemented in the Netherlands. He acted as visiting professor at the Oil & Gas University of General Electric in Firenze, Italy in 2005 and 2006 teaching energy markets, energy policies and climate change and published his vision on innovation in “Managing technology and innovation” by Routledge Publishers. From 2006 till 2009 he developed and implemented the 50 % CO2 reduction strategy for Rotterdam leading to the development of the Rotterdam Climate Initiative. From 2009 till 2011 he was partner in the European program CO2Europipe on CO2 transport networks. In 2012 he led the EU CO2 transport working group in the European Zero Emission Platform ZEP together with National Grid.

Currently, he is leading a project on dialogue and decision making in the Dutch energy transition with stakeholders in energy companies, governments and research institutes for the Netherlands in the EU project R&Dialogue.

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