Dr. Fatih Birol, male, Turkish, born in March 1958, is currently the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). He was listed by Forbes Magazine as the world’s 4th most powerful person in the field of energy in 2009, recognized by Financial Times in 2017 as Energy Personality of the Year, and named on Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people in 2021. In addition, he was awarded the Special Award by the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2002, the Special Award by the US Department of Energy and the Energy Information Administration in 2004, the Ordre des Palmes Académiques of France in 2006, the First Class Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2009, the Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2012, and the First Class Order of the Polar Star of Sweden in 2013. In 2014, he was awarded the First Class Order of the Rising Sun of Japan, the Melchett Award of the United Kingdom in 2017, and the National Officer Order of Merit of Brazil in 2020. He was elected as Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2021.