Sixty Minutes with Ditte Juul-Jørgensen and András Simonyi

Originally aired January 8, 2021

In the fourth installment of the Leadership in Our Time series, András Simonyi sits down with Ditte Juul-Jørgensen, Director-General for Energy of the European Commission, to explore the EU’s ambitious energy agenda.

The conversation covers the European Green Deal, the EU’s goal of climate neutrality by 2050, the role of the Next Generation EU recovery plan in the energy transition, and the state of EU–US energy cooperation — including the role of U.S. LNG in European energy security.

Speakers

Ditte Juul-Jørgensen

Director-General for Energy, European Commission

Ditte Juul-Jørgensen became Director-General for Energy of the European Commission in August 2019. She has 27 years of experience at the Commission, previously serving as Head of Cabinet for Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager and as Director of Legal Affairs and Trade in Goods.

András Simonyi

Atlantic Council Senior Fellow; Former Hungarian Ambassador to the U.S. and NATO

András Simonyi served as Hungary’s Ambassador to the United States and to NATO. He is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and a longtime collaborator with SSF and George Washington University on transatlantic leadership and security.