Heleen de Coninck works as a programma manager in International Energy and Climate Issues at ECN Policy Studies. As a researcher, her main focus of work is international climate policy and technology. Since her joining ECN in December 2001, she worked on international climate policy, rural electrification, the Clean Development Mechanism, CO2 capture and storage, capacity building in developing countries and policy interactions. From 2002-2005, she was part of the Technical Support Unit of the IPCC Working Group III, where she co-ordinated the Special Report on Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage. Since 2008, she managed a group of eight researchers focussing on international climate policy, energy and development, and technology transfer.

Heleen graduated in Chemistry and in Environmental Science, specialisation climate change and atmospheric chemistry, from the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. After her studies, she worked as atmospheric chemistry researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. In 2009, Heleen finished a PhD, which she conducted alongside her work at ECN, on technology in the international climate regime at the VU University Amsterdam in collaboration with Princeton University in the United States.

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