Skills/Experience

Coby van der Linde is director of the Clingendael International Energy Programme, Professor of Geopolitics and Energy at the University of Groningen and a member of the Dutch energy council.

Coby van der Linde started working as an assistant professor on International Economic Relations at the Univeristy of Leiden in 1984. After finishing her PhD-thesis – Dynamic International Oil markets, Oil market development and structure 1860-1990 (Kluwer, 1991) –  she became associate professor.  In 1990 and 1991 she was associated with the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies as a guest researcher for a total of 16 months. In 1992-1993 she was guest researcher with the Energy and Environment Programme, the Royal Institute for International Affairs ‘Chatham House’, Londen. In the Fall of 1993 she was Visiting Domingo Moreno Professor, Colorado School of Mines, Golden Colorado, USA. From 1994 to 1996, after returning to Leiden, she was part-time professor International Oil Markets at the Univeristy of Amsterdam. In 1995 she was granted a Jean Monnet Chair in European Economic Integration. Since 1998 she is senior research fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael, The Hague, where she continued to publish and lecture on international energy issues. In October 1999 her second book – The State and the International Oil Market (Kluwer 1999) – was published. From 2000-2005 she was professor International Political Economy and International Oil Markets, University of Leiden. Since September 2001 she is director of the Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP). She is managing various studies on European energy markets, security of oil and gas supply and energy and sustainability. In 2004 she became a member of the Dutch Energy Council (AER) and she became professor of Geopolitics and Energy Management at the University of Groningen. She is a columnist on energy issues. She is also a non-executive director of Wintershall Netherlands and Alliander, and a member of the (international) advisory board of the Rotterdam Climate Initiative and KAPSARC, a new energy research institute in Saudi Arabia.

Role in the Project

• Supervising project management CIEP
• Research on Research aim 4 & 5.