Ariel Ezrahi, Head of the MENA2050 Energy Transition Committee, based in Berlin, is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council. He is also a partner at NewVest, the NY based private markets index manager.

Formerly the architect of the Gas for Gaza project and energy advisor to the Rt Hon. Tony Blair, Quartet Representative.

Ezrahi is an energy and sustainability diplomacy expert who appears regularly in the media. Prior to that role, he worked for international law firms, in the corporate energy field, with an emphasis on the Middle East and North Africa region.

He holds an M.Phil. in modern Middle Eastern studies from the University of Oxford (St.

Antony’s College), an LLM in international law from Georgetown University, and an LLB from the University of Manchester.