Kirsten Westphal is senior researcher at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Germany.  Her research focuses on international energy governance, German and EU energy policy, EU-Russia energy relations and EU-emerging powers energy cooperation.  Whilst she works on all kinds of fossil fuels, she is currently also investigating possibilities of multilateral cooperation on renewable energies, e.g. IRENA, and the role of emerging powers in international energy governance.