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Anne-Sophie Corbeau is a visiting fellow in GMF's Strategic Foresight program and a global research scholar at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, where she leads research on natural gas and hydrogen. She is also a visiting professor at Sciences Po.

With 25 years’ experience in the energy industry, Corbeau is a widely published author on the geopolitics of gas, and markets in China, India, and other countries in Asia and Africa. She is the author of "LNG Markets in Transition: The Great Reconfiguration" and co-chairs the governing body of Gastech.

Corbeau was previously head of gas analysis at bp and analyzed trends across the gas, nuclear, and hydrogen sectors as part of the company's Economic and Energy Insights team. She was also a research fellow at King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) in Riyadh, where she built the natural gas program, and held roles at the International Energy Agency and at IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates. She began her career as an engineer working on fuel cells and hydrogen at Peugeot and Debis Systemhaus.

Corbeau holds a master's degree in energy engineering from École Centrale Paris and a master's degree in economics from the University of Stuttgart.

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Tara Varma
Sophia Besch

Sophia Gaston is a nonresident senior fellow in Strategic Foresight at GMF, where she specializes in the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific security theaters. Her research focuses on strengthening the resilience and competitiveness of advanced liberal democracies in a turbulent geopolitical era, with a particular focus on British strategic advantage. 

Gaston advises the British government as an external challenge partner and policy expert, and trains civil servants on geopolitical capabilities. She is a senior research fellow in the Centre for Statecraft and National Security in the Department of War Studies at King's College London and a senior advisor to the Defense and National Security Practice at the Asia Group in Washington, DC. In addition, she holds affiliations as a senior fellow in the Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford, an expert associate at the National Security College at the Australian National University in Canberra, and an academic fellow at the European Policy Centre in Brussels. 

Gaston is a regular media commentator for national and global publications and broadcast television, and frequently presents on her research at international conferences. She also advises the UK government and private-sector organizations on geopolitical risk, strategic forecasting, and policy development.

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Eamon Drumm
Andrei Covatariu