Dr. Xavier Garcia-Casals is Senior Expert on the Energy Transition at the Policy Unit from IRENA’s Knowledge Policy and Finance Centre, where he focuses on the transition socio-economic footprint analysis and power system marked design workstreams.
Over the last 30 years Xavier has been working on technical, economic, policy and social dimensions of the energy transition, from different perspectives (university, research institutes, consultancy, engineering, NGOs, international agency).
The current focus of Xavier’s activity is on measuring the socio-economic implications of transition roadmaps/scenarios, and on exploring the requirements for the structures needed to enable and support the transition.