HIGHLIGHTS: Fatih Birol - Executive Director of the International Energy Agency

Hi everybody, tune in to this short version of the podcast which we do every Friday. For the long version, tune in on Wednesdays. Hi everybody and welcome to In Good Company. I'm Nikola Tanjan, the CEO of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, and today we have a tremendous guest, Dr. Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency.

And wow, what a topical podcast this is going to be. So a big welcome, Fatih. Thank you very much, Nikolai. Now you have warned that markets and politicians are still underestimating the consequences of the crisis in the Middle East. What are they getting wrong?

You know, Nikolai, we are an intergovernmental organization. Uh, we work for the uh governments, a public institution. After uh the war has started uh since there are many market related uh dynamics, I told my colleagues and myself three weeks we didn't make any public statements. But I th I saw that the the decision makers governments in Europe but around the world didn't understand how big the problem uh

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