Interests

Geopolitics of energy & resources; strategic trade and development; OPEC; US energy policy; commercialization of alternative energy technologies; energy investment & business cycles; global governance.

Current Projects

OPEC coherence; national and MNC reserve transparency; international climate change negotiations; petroleum prices (volatility) and development; energy regionalism (East and Central Asia; West Africa); international energy data issues.

Education

M.A.L.D. Candidate, The Fletcher School (Harvard-Tufts joint program); Doctoral fellow (1994-1997), University of Chicago; Exchange scholar, Columbia University (1996); M.A. (1995), University of Chicago; B.A. (1993), University of London.

Background

Staff Editor, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs; Head of Energy Technology Practice/ Associate Director (Europe), UBS Warburg; Senior Associate, Economics and Equity Research, Bear, Stearns; Analyst, Schroder & Co. Advisory experience (oil & gas; utilities; energy technology; electrical equipment): BP, Eni, Shell, Enel, Iberdrola, Gaz de France, Enel; GE; ABB, Mitsubishi, Toshiba; Gamesa, Vestas, NEG Micon, Enercon; Fuel Cell Energy, Ballard, Plug.

Selected

Publications

· “Review Article: Saudi Arabia and the Energy Future”, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs (forthcoming, Spring 2004)

· “OPEC and the Shifting International Energy Order” (monograph, forthcoming)

· “Consolidation in Global Oilfield Services & Equipment”, UBS Warburg

· “Consolidation in Global Power Equipment”, UBS Warburg

· “Fuel Cell Industry Overview”, UBS Warburg

· “Industry report – Energy Technology”, UBS Warburg

· “Industry report - Network infrastructure services”, Bear, Stearns

Last updated February 27, 2004