Press & media
Topics, ready-to-use biographies, photo and direct contact.
This page is designed for newsrooms: topics, ready-to-use biographies, photo and direct contact. Available for rapid reactions, interviews and op-eds.
Topics
- Electricity markets and energy prices: France and Europe, price mechanisms, regulation.
- Energy geopolitics: oil and OPEC+, LNG, chokepoints (Hormuz, Malacca), semiconductors and material sovereignty.
- Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific: electricity security, China-Taiwan relations, paradiplomacy, energy insularity.
- Central Africa and Cameroon: power sector reform, hydropower, electrification, regional integration.
- Energy transition: renewables, nuclear, hydropower, energy sovereignty.
- Cities and energy: climate-energy planning, adaptation, heatwaves, local governance.
Formats and languages
TV, radio and podcast interviews; op-eds and analysis; rapid-reaction commentary; panels. Interviews in French and English; lectures also in Spanish. Op-eds also appear in traditional Chinese (in translation), notably in the Taiwanese press.
Selected appearances and outlets
- Radio Taiwan International, "Taiwan vs. the World": interview on city-to-city diplomacy with Taiwan (June 2026).
- Op-eds and analysis in the Taipei Times, African Arguments, Le Temps, Le Vif, Slate.fr, Revue Conflits, the United Daily News and CommonWealth Magazine, among others. All publications →
Ready-to-use biographies
Short bio (about 50 words)
Romain Blachier analyses energy and geopolitics. Eighteen years in the renewable electricity sector, associate fellow at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès, lecturer at business schools and universities since 2010. Specialities: energy markets, Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific, African power systems.
Medium bio (about 120 words)
Romain Blachier has worked for eighteen years in the renewable electricity sector. An associate fellow at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès (Climate-Energy, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia-Pacific observatories) and a civil society member of France Stratégie's CSR Platform, he has taught energy markets and energy geopolitics at business schools and universities since 2010. A former elected official of the City of Lyon and the Lyon Metropolis (2008-2020), he conducted a field mission in Yaoundé in July 2026 on Cameroon's power sector reform. He publishes in France and internationally, notably in the Taipei Times, African Arguments, Le Temps and Revue Conflits.
Long bio (about 250 words)
Romain Blachier is an expert in energy policy and energy geopolitics. He has worked for eighteen years in renewable electricity, as an innovation project lead: hydropower concessions, energy markets, storage and flexibility, territorial dialogue. An elected official of the City of Lyon and councillor of the Lyon Metropolis for twelve years (2008-2020), he sat on the economy and energy committee and on the local energy agency.
An associate fellow at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès (Climate-Energy, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia-Pacific observatories), a civil society member of France Stratégie's CSR Platform and a registered energy expert with the African Development Bank, he has taught energy markets, geopolitics and policy at business schools and universities since 2010, in French and English, at around 180 hours per year.
President of the France-Formosa association since 2012, he has carried out two official missions to Taiwan at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2019, 2025) and publishes regularly in the Taiwanese and international press. In July 2026 he conducted a field mission in Yaoundé alongside Cameroon's power sector reform programme and gave a lecture at IRIC (University of Yaoundé II). His analysis appears notably in the Taipei Times, African Arguments, Le Temps, Telos, Revue Conflits and for Terra Nova.
Practical elements
- Photo: download the portrait (JPG) — cleared for editorial use.
- Name in traditional Chinese: 羅曼·布拉希耶 (for Chinese-language media).
- Based in: Lyon, France. Available remotely, in studio or on location.
