Nicholas Wagner is a Programme Officer at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) located at IRENA’s Innovation and Technology Centre in Bonn, Germany. He is part of the REmap team – IRENA’s renewable energy roadmaps - which focuses on global, regional and country analysis and energy transition roadmaps. REmap focuses on energy system analysis to the year 2050 and works in concert with over 70 countries to determine the potential of accelerating renewable energy, energy efficiency and other low-carbon technologies and their impacts on the energy transition. Prior to working at IRENA, Nicholas worked in renewable energy consulting in California, and research positions at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) and as German Chancellor Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems.