Tae-Yoon Kim

Tae-Yoon is an energy analyst at the International Energy Agency (IEA), contributing to the World Energy Outlook series with focuses on oil refining, petrochemicals, natural gas and critical minerals.

He is the lead author of the IEA special report on the role of critical minerals in clean energy transitions.

Prior to joining the IEA, Tae-Yoon worked at the World Bank's infrastructure finance team, providing policy recommendations to scale up infrastructure investment in lower-income countries. Tae-Yoon also worked as a senior manager at Accenture's energy strategy practice where he provided various strategy consulting services to oil & gas, utilities, cleantech, PE clients in the areas of growth strategy, new business strategy, investment appraisal and merger & acquisitions. Tae-Yoon also served as an advisory member of the “Smart Grid Market Model Development” task-force for the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy in Korea and an editor of "Refined", Accenture's internal energy insight journal.

Tae-Yoon worked in Seoul (Korea), Calgary (Canada), Aberdeen (UK), Houston (US), Washington DC (US) and Paris (France), and studied energy policy at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.