Managing Director of UAE-based Big Picture Strategy LLC, a consultancy that specializes in communication and marketing services for clients in the energy, climate and natural resources sectors. Arash Duero is also Senior Advisor at Berlin Global Advisors, a leading German public and government affairs consultancy, where he provides strategic counsel to a wide range of clients across multiple industries and functions. Mr. Duero regularly serves as Senior Expert at Roland Berger, Senior Consultant at Berlin-based Clean Hydrogen Advisors (CH2A), Advisor to the Global Gas Centre and the Clean Energy Forum, and member of the German Economic Council. Moreover, Mr. Duero is Head of Strategic Programs at the European Cluster for Climate, Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) at the Centre for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS), University of Bonn. He previously worked at the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) – Institute for Energy, as a researcher at the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) of the Free University in Berlin, as a research associate at the Berlin Centre for Caspian Region Studies, was part of the Resilien-tech Working Group of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (ACATECH) and was a Senior Fellow at the European Centre for Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) at King’s College London. He has also served as an advisor and peer-reviewed various International Energy Agency (IEA) publications. As a researcher, he has published on a number of energy-related topics in scholarly journals and other publications, including for Energy Policy, the Bosch Foundation and the German Foreign Office. A native of Savannah, Georgia, USA, Mr. Duero studied economics at Georgia Southern University and holds an advanced degree in Political Science with a focus on Macroeconomics and International Energy Policy from the Free University in Berlin, Germany. He is based in Dubai and, in addition to his native tongue of English, speaks German, Farsi and Armenian fluently.
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