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Alan Riley

Alan Riley

Visiting Professor at the College of Europe 

Alan Riley is a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Natolin), a member of the Advisory Committee of the Energy Community (Vienna), and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, (Washington, DC). He specialises in antitrust, trade, and energy law, and EU policy issues. Professor Riley runs the EU Economic Security course at the College of Europe. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Energy Community, which acts as its judicial panel and has its seat in Vienna. It applies EU energy law under the ECT Treaty to Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and the non-EU Balkan states. He was the founding chair of the Competition Law Scholars Forum (clasf) and is co-editor of the Competition Law Review. From 2007 to 2015, he held a chair in international commercial law at the City Law School, Grays Inn, part of City, University of London. 
Subjects:
Authoritarianism, Baltic states, China, Climate, Economy, Energy, Estonia, Europe, European Union, Nordic-Baltic region, Russia, Security, United Kingdom
Updated: August 31, 2021

Agenda

De-Risking our Economies – Is It Too Late and Too Risky?
LMC 2024
Clean Up the Mess: Energy Security in a Competitive World
LMC 2023
Energy, Security
Mutatis Mutandis: Changing What Needed to Be Changed – Weighing Hydrogen Strategy
LMC 2021
Energy, Nordic-Baltic region
Afterwards, It Will be Too Late to Complain: Energy Choices Facing Our Region
LMC 2019
China
China’s Game in Europe: What Rules, What Stakes?
LMC 2018
Energy, European Union
Grids, Pipes and Plants: EU Energy Policy in Limbo
LMC 2017
9 more

Side events

Baltic states, Energy
Stepping on the Gas: Future of the Blue Fuel Market and Energy Security in Estonia

The report considers the trends in natural gas sector and their implications to Estonia. It puts forward a number of recommendations on how to create and sustain the conditions necessary for efficient gas market and for improved energy security in Estonia.

LMC 2019

Articles

European Energy Policy in a Time of Crisis

The focus of European energy policy, for at least the last decade, has been the energy transition, with renewables playing a central role. Given the threats posed by climate change, this focus was understandable. However, such a policy is inadequate in an extreme crisis, when…

Alan Riley
LMC 2025
A drawing of the Helsinki–Tallinn tunnel, which may be built with Chinese investment.
Authoritarianism, China, Economy, Estonia, European Union
Chinese Investment and the Security of EU Member States

EU governments need to be aware of the potential downsides of Chinese funding.

Alan Riley
LMC 2019

Quotes