At 9:30 on July 2, 2018, William Zimmern, BP Group Chief Macroeconomic Analyst, was invited to visit CEEP and gave a talk entitled “World energy outlook 2018”. The report was hosted by Prof. Bi-Ying Yu, many teachers, students and 2018 Energy and Climate Economics summer campers attended the report.

　　William Zimmern is the Chief Macroeconomic Analyst of BP Group. He is affiliated with the Group's economics team and is responsible for the macroeconomic analysis of global primary energy consumption and the World Energy Outlook. Prior to joining BP Group, William worked in the UK Department of the Treasury as a senior economist.
　　In today's report, William Zimmern mainly introduced the world primary energy demand trend; trend of fuels in oil sector, gas sector, coal sector and renewables; carbon emissions and an outlook of EV from a world perspective.