The Centre de Sciences Humaines is pleased to invite you to the CSH Workshop

by

Lucas Chancel

(Sciences Po – Center for Research on Social Inequalities)

on

Energy and Inequality

On

Tuesday, 16 December 2025, from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm IST

At

Centre de Sciences Humaines

IFI-CSH conference room (ground floor)

2 Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Road, New Delhi – 110011

To register: Please fill out the registration FORM

Abstract: Who owns power—and how has that shaped our societies ? This talk, based on Énergie et inégalités (“Energy and inequalities”, Seuil, 2025), shows that energy systems are political-economic arrangements that organize who captures rents, who bears risks, and who benefits from essential energy services. By comparing ownership shifts across Europe, North America, China and India —from private oligopolies to municipal, cooperative, colonial, and nationalized regimes—we document how institutional control over energy has structured inequality and conditioned countries’ capacity to invest, plan, and decarbonize. Taken together, these findings show that ownership will be central to any effort to decarbonize while containing wealth and power inequalities.

Speaker:

Lucas Chancel is a tenured Associate Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, based at the Center for Research on Social Inequalities. He is also Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics. His latest book won the best book of the year award by the Association of Energy Economists. His latest book Énergie et inégalités : Une histoire politique (Energy and inequality : a political history) is published by le Seuil in October 2025. His latest book, Unsustainable inequalities, was selected in the list of best books by the Financial Times and Nature magazine.

For more info contact:

david[dot]singh[at]csh-delhi[dot]com

CSH Workshop is in hybrid mode. Please pre-register for offline and online registration before Monday, 16 December, 3:00 p.m. IST.

To attend at the venue: please note the room capacity is limited. Seats will be reserved on a first-come first-served basis. Kindly bring ID proof to be granted access to the venue.