Mikkal E. Herberg
Mikkal Herberg is Director of the Asian Energy Security Program at The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) in Seattle, Washington. NBR is a non-profit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to advanced research on U.S. policy in Asia. NBR produces major research projects and collaborates with premier specialists and institutions worldwide to inform and strengthen Asia-Pacific policy, and maintains programs on strategic, political, economic, energy, globalization, and health issues.
He was previously Director of the Asia-Pacific Energy and Environment Program at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, where he also taught graduate courses on the politics and economics of global energy markets. Prior to this he was Director for Global Energy and Economics in the Strategic Planning group at ARCO where he was responsible for worldwide energy, economic, and political analysis. He also headed country risk analysis responsible for advising the executive management on risk conditions and investment strategies in countries and regions where ARCO had major investments. He was involved for 20 years in the strategic planning for ARCO’s investments in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Russia and the Caspian region, and North Africa. His previous positions with ARCO included Director of Portfolio Risk Management and Director for Emerging Markets. Prior to this he was at Bank of America in San Francisco where he was involved in developing international banking and country risk policies.
He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the west coast affiliate of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Association for Energy Economics, and the Board of Directors of the California Council on International Trade. He did doctoral work in International Political Economy at UCLA and also has a Masters degree in Latin American Studies from UCLA.
Philip Andrews-Speed
Dr. Philip Andrews-Speed is Director of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He gained BA and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge. He then spent fourteen years as a geologist in the international mining and petroleum industries before coming to the Centre in 1994, taking an LLM in Energy Law and Policy, and joining the academic staff. He leads the Centre’s China Programme, which covers research, consultancy and professional training in the oil, gas, electricity and mining sectors. The focus of the research is on energy policy, regulation and reform especially in gas, electricity and coal. He led a major project for the State Planning Commission of China and the European Commission on power sector reform in China in the year 2000. In 2001-2002 he carried out a project supported by the British Academy and by the International Institute for Strategic Studies examining the interaction between China’s foreign policy and its energy policy, and the wider strategic implications of China’s energy needs. This was published as Adelphi Paper 346, "The Strategic Implications of China’s Energy Needs". He has recently completed a book entitled "Energy Policy and Regulation in the People’s Republic of China" which was published by Kluwer Law International.
Kent Calder
Kent Calder is Director of Korea Initiative Program and Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asia Studies at the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He was formerly a professor for 20 years at Princeton University, he held the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and was a lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University where he served as the first Executive Director of the Harvard University Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. He has been Special Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, former Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, including Korea, and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Asian Security; a former Associate Editor of World Politics. He holds a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University.
Felix Chang
Felix K. Chang is an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, where his research focuses on economic, energy, and security issues throughout East and Central Asia. He has served as a business and planning advisor at Mobil Oil Corporation's New Exploration and Producing Ventures division and primarily dealt with strategic planning for upstream and pipeline investments in Africa, China, and the Russian Far East. He was also a vice president of a Dallas-based market research firm. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a Master of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania."
Edward C. Chow
Edward C. Chow is an International Oil Consultant with more than 25 years of experience working in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, South America, Europe, and the former Soviet Union on oil and gas issues. He has advised U.S. and foreign governments as well as international companies. Chow previously served in numerous positions with the Chevron Corporation. In his last position as headquarters manager of international external affairs, he oversaw the company’s international political and economic research, provided public policy and business support to overseas operations, and directed international advocacy. Chow also served on Chevron’s Caspian Pipeline Team, as director of international affairs in Washington, and as China country manager. He is the author of Russian Pipelines: Back to the Future? (Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter/Spring 2004) and U.S.-Russia Energy Dialogue: Policy, Projects, or Photo Op? (Foreign Service Journal, December, 2003). He speaks Chinese and did Doctoral work at American University and has an M.A. and B.A. from Ohio University.
Erica Downs
Erica Downs earned a Ph.D. and a M.A. in politics from Princeton University and a B.S. in humanities in international affairs from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She taught at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing, China and worked as an analyst at the RAND Corporation. Her current research focuses on Chinese energy issues. Her publications include: "The Chinese Energy Security Debate," The China Quarterly, No. 177 (March 2004); China’s Quest for Energy Security (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2000); and "Legitimacy and the Limits of Nationalism: China and the Diaoyu Islands," International Security, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Winter 1998/1999) (co-author).
Thomas E. Fisher
Thomas E. Fisher is a consultant to Unocal Corporation, having just recently retired as Senior Vice President of Commercial Affairs for Unocal Corporation. His responsibilities included commercial counseling and services for Unocal’s oil, gas, and electric activities worldwide. He is a member of NBR's Board of Directors. For the 34 years that Mr. Fisher has been with Unocal, he has held various positions in operations, commerce, and management both domestically and internationally. Mr. Fisher played an important role in establishing one of Asia’s first natural gas industries in Thailand. His work contributed to the expansion of natural gas and electric industries throughout southern Asia. In 1987 he was appointed Vice President of U.S. Natural Gas, and was subsequently made responsible for natural gas sales, transportation administration, and regulatory affairs for all of North America, and then worldwide. Mr. Fisher in 1994 became corporate Vice President, a position that gave him responsibility for marketing Unocal’s worldwide gas, oil, and NGL resources. Two years later, he was entrusted with the development of electric power projects, acquisitions and divestitures, strategic planning, and significant commercial negotiations. Currently he is a member of the President’s Endowed Scholarship Foundation of Texas A&M University, he is a former Director of the Natural Gas Council, and was on the Board of Advisors of the Gas Research Institute. He is also a registered professional engineer.
Tomoko Hosoe
Tomoko Hosoe is a Professional Associate at East-West Center, Energy and Economic Development Group and works with Dr. Fereidun Fesharaki (Senior Fellow and Head of the Energy Team). Her research focus is on downstream oil and natural gas (pricing, projects, and contracts), energy policy, and environmental issues, with special reference to Japan. She has been involved in numerous projects involving demand forecasting for LNG, the market outlook for Gas-To-Liquids (GTL) products in Asia, condensate outlook for the Asia-Pacific region, Japan’s gas and power market deregulation, Asia’s LNG pricing analysis, and ASEAN+3 energy cooperation. She has published numerous reports related to the LNG market and Japan’s oil and gas industry which have been cited in the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) and other oil/gas publications. She has co-authored a few Japanese books, including Energy Crisis by Yoshihiro Sakamoto (Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, November 2002). The latest is Energy Security (tentative title) by Yasuo Tanabe, which will be published this year by Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry in Japan. Ms. Hosoe was a former Senior Energy Correspondent for Knight-Ridder, Inc. She holds a Master of Public Affairs from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs—Public Management—Indiana University.
Yonghun Jung
Dr. Yonghun Jung, a Korean national, is currently serving as the vice president of the APEC Energy Research Centre in Tokyo Japan. He had received a doctoral degree in Economics from the University of Rochester. Before he was seconded to APERC, he was a senior fellow at the Korea Energy Economics Institute and a visiting scholar at the Australian National University. Dr. Jung has worked on energy and environment projects with a number of international organizations, governments, industries and universities throughout the world over a decade and participated in a number of intergovernmental negotiation as an expert and a negotiator for the Korean government, where he served as an advisor for the Ministry of Commerce Industry and Energy, and the Prime Minister’s Office. Dr. Jung specializes in energy demand/supply forecast, natural gas infrastructure development, climate change, and energy sector regulatory reform. He has published a number of reports and articles in those areas. For example, on behalf of Korean Gas Corporation, he took charge of a pre-feasibility study on Irkutsk Natural Gas Pipeline Project during 1996 1997. He has authored the 1st National Communication of the Republic of Korea to UNFCCC. He has written a number of APERC reports including on Electricity Sector Deregulation in APEC region and Making CDM Workable while supervising all APERC reports. The most recent publication managed by Dr. Jung is the 2002 APEC Energy Demand and Supply Outlook. He is currently working on the revision of the long-term energy outlook and supervising research projects in APERC.
Carol Kessler
In October 2003, Carol E. Kessler was named Director for the Pacific Northwest Center for Global Security at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), operated by Battelle Memorial Institute for the U.S. Department of Energy. The Center’s mission is to address the full range of global security issues by probing the impact of economic, social, institutional energy and environmental conditions that affect it. There will continue to be an emphasis on the issues of nonproliferation in the Center’s work due to their consequence for global security. Prior to joining PNNL, Kessler served as Deputy Director General of the Nuclear Energy Agency at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France. In this capacity she was the principal manager of the day-to-day operations of the Agency. Before this, she spent a total of 14 years at the US Department of State, principally in the fields of nuclear nonproliferation, international nuclear safety and nuclear energy. She was the State Department’s Senior Coordinator for Nuclear Safety from 1995-2000. As such she was the U.S. lead in the G-7 Nuclear Safety Working Group dedicated to efforts to improve the safety of Soviet designed nuclear plants and to close those which could not be upgraded to meet international standards. From 1997-2000, Ms. Kessler led US and international efforts to close the last reactor at Chernobyl, which was accomplished on December 15, 2000.
During the period from 1984-89, she worked for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on nuclear export controls and international safeguards. Ms. Kessler is a member of Sigma Xi, AAAS and the American Nuclear Society. She has received two Masters of Science, one in Technology and Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 and one in National Security Studies from the U.S. National War College in 2001. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in Bio-geology.
Robert A. Manning
Robert Manning is currently Senior Counselor, Energy, Technology and Science Policy, in the Secretary of State’s Office of Policy Planning. He is responsible for a range of issues including energy policy, new energy technologies, and climate change policy, and co-chair with the Department of Energy (DOE) of the inter-agency Task Force on International Energy Cooperation under the Climate Technology Program. He has worked closely with the DOE on the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD), helped conceive and organize the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) and the International Partnership for a Hydrogen Economy (IPHE) initiatives. Prior to 2001 he was Director of Asian Studies, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of The Asian Energy Factor (Palgrave/St.Martins 2000) a major monograph, China, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control (Council on Foreign Relations Press), essays on Nuclear weapons, numerous journal articles and chapters in edited volumes on international energy and Asian security issues, Korea, China, and Japan. He has also previously been a policy adviser in the Department of State and an adviser to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, as well as a foreign policy analyst at several institutes in Washington. He has edited or contributed chapters to more than a dozen books, most recently, "Living With Ambiguity,"; in China’s Future: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat, CATO Institute Press, 2000, and also, "Waiting for Godot: Asia-Pacific in Transition," in The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Past, Present, Future, Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1999. He has written widely on foreign and energy policies in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Survival, World Policy Journal, The Washington Quarterly, Asian Survey, Politique Internationale and contributed more than three dozen papers for academic conferences and journals. He has also contributed to: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall St. Journal, Los Angeles Times Sunday Opinion, National Review, Newsday, The New Republic, Intl. Herald Tribune, and other publications.
Fareed Mohamedi
Fareed Mohamedi is Chief Economist for PFC Energy and Senior Director in the Markets and Countries Group. He is responsible for coordinating all the economic work carried out at PFC Energy with particular emphasis on global structural changes affecting the investment environment in the energy industry. An additional area of focus for Fareed is national oil companies and the challenges they face. Fareed has been at PFC Energy since 1990 and between 1996 and 1998 led the market analysis and country risk teams. From 1998 to 2000, when he returned to PFC Energy, he was vice president/senior analyst at Moody's Investors Service as the lead country analyst for a number of petroleum and gas producing countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Kazakhstan. In the past, Fareed had also worked as an economist at the Institute of International Finance in the Middle East and Asia departments, the World Bank, Wharton Econometrics Forecasting Associates and the Ministry of Finance and National Economy in Bahrain. Fareed holds an M.A. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a B.A. in Economics from Western Michigan University.
Edward L. Morse
Ed Morse is Executive Advisor at Hess Energy Trading Co., LLC, a proprietary trading firm, with offices in London and New York. His career in the energy sector spans more than two decades and includes senior positions in business, government, academia and publishing. He joined HETCO in April 1999 after more than a decade as Publisher of Petroleum Intelligence Weekly and other oil and gas industry newsletters.
A frequent commentator on oil market trends, both in writing and for broadcast media, Morse is the author or co-author of four books on politics, finance, energy and international affairs. He has written some five dozen scholarly articles and numerous other commentaries. His industry experience includes a management position at Phillips Petroleum Company; he also co-founded the Petroleum Finance Company. In government he served in the Carter and Reagan administrations, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Energy Policy. He has taught at Princeton, Columbia and Johns Hopkins Universities and was on the senior research staff of the Council on Foreign Relations. Morse is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Oxford Energy Policy Club. He is a trustee of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, chairman at the Energy Forum of New York University, and a member of the advisory committees for the energy programs at Columbia University, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the University of Houston. He has been active in public policy issues for a long time. For example, in the aftermath of the Gulf War, he served as oil advisor to the United Nations Compensation Commission on Iraq, playing an active role in the establishment of the U.S. oil-for-food program. In the winter of 2000-2001 he chaired a joint task force of the James A. Baker III Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations on Energy Security. In 2002-2003 he worked closely with the U.S. Department of Defense on matters related to oil and Iraq.
Keun-Wook Paik
Dr. Paik is a London based specialist on Northeast Asia's oil and gas issues, in particular China's natural gas industry, and Sino-Russian oil and gas policies. He is an associate fellow at Chatham House and honorary fellow at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Dr. Paik is author of Gas and Oil in Northeast Asia: Policies, Projects and Prospects (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1995), and co-author & supervisor of China Natural Gas Report (China OGP, Xinhua News Agency & RIIA, 1998). Since 1996, he has been advising Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and American Institutions with regard to Northeast Asian region's trans-national pipeline development and China's natural gas expansion issues. This Spring Dr. Paik completed a major study on "China's natural gas expansion" (publication in early 2005 is being considered), and organised two international workshops - "Energy and Environmental Cooperation in the Korean Peninsula" and "Russia's Oil and Gas Exports to Northeast Asia" - at Chatham House in September 2004. He is planning another international workshop on "China Energy" in Beijing in 2005.
Laurent Ruseckas
Laurent Ruseckas is Director of the Europe & Eurasia Practice at Eurasia Group. Formerly the head of the Caspian Energy practice at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Laurent has more than a decade of experience advising energy companies, financial institutions, and governments on issues of political risk, investment climate, and oil and gas economics in Eurasia and Turkey. A Russian speaker, Laurent holds a BA with honors in Russian and Soviet Studies from Harvard College, and he is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Columbia University. He is a frequent speaker at international industry conferences and policy symposia, and his analyses have appeared in the Journal of International Affairs, AccessAsia Review, and edited volumes published by the East-West Institute and the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research. Laurent is a member of the Advisory Board of the Open Society Institute’s Caspian Revenue Watch program, and he was a particpant in the Kazakhstan Industrial Policy Roundtable.
Laurent’s areas of expertise include Russian politics and investment, Caspian region oil and gas economics, US policy toward Eurasia, Baltic energy issues, Turkish and European gas markets, and upstream oil and gas investment in Eurasia and the Middle East. In the early 1990s, Laurent was one of the first Western experts to spend time in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, and he is acknowledged as a preeminent authority on politics and energy investment in these two Caspian states.
James Shinn
James Shinn is the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Visiting Professor in the Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) Program of Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. After serving in the East Asia Bureau of the State Department in the 1970s, he spent 15 years in high-tech firms in Silicon Valley, first at Advanced Micro Devices, an integrated circuit firm, and then at Dialogic, a digital signal processing (DSP) software firm, which he co-founded. Dialogic did an IPO in 1992 and is now a division of Intel Corporation. Jim then helped start HLI, a successful UNIX transactions security firm in Texas acquired by Network Associates and CAMBIX.COM, a Manhattan-based financial software firm that went belly-up. After leaving high-tech land he was Senior Fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York for 4 years, where he authored several undistinguished books and task force reports. He then returned to academia, completed a middle-aged PhD at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, and taught courses on technology and foreign policy at Princeton’s Engineering Department and the Woodrow Wilson School. He moved to Washington D.C. and joined the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in 2003. Jim has a BA from Princeton, an MBA from Harvard, and Ph.D. from Princeton. Amazingly enough, the omnipotent Ed Morse was his undergraduate thesis advisor at Princeton.
Jonathan Sinton
Jonathan Sinton is a scientist with the Energy Analysis Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he began working in 1990. He has worked on a range of interdisciplinary topics, mainly collaborative efforts with researchers in Asia, on energy and environmental policy, from energy efficiency to climate change to rural household stoves (http://china.lbl.gov). Dr. Sinton has published in Science, Energy Policy, the Annual Review of Energy and Environment and other journals, and has also prepared reports for and made many presentations to U.S. government departments, multilateral agencies, foundations and other clients. Dr. Sinton received an A.B. in History of Science from Harvard College in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996.
David A. Thurman
David A. Thurman is a Senior Research Scientist in the National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL is a U.S. Department of Energy multi-program research laboratory managed by Battelle Memorial Institute.
With more than 18 years of professional experience in research and university settings, Mr. Thurman manages a variety of software design and application projects, combining innovative research in human-machine systems interaction with the practical application of advanced information technologies. Representative activities include: collaborative problem solving environments for engineering and environmental management domains, integrated analytic environments for intelligence analysts, advanced information visualization technologies for business competitive intelligence, innovative software architectures to support knowledge acquisition in complex technical systems, advanced web-based systems to facilitate information retrieval from bulk data stores, and design and development of visualization techniques to support exploratory data analysis. Mr. Thurman leads PNNL’s Information Logistics research area, which concentrates on research and development of new technologies for acquiring, integrating, transforming, managing, and disseminating data, information, and knowledge. He has more than 25 publications in the fields of human factors and computer science and serves as a reviewer for a variety of journals and conferences. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the International Society for Social Network Analysis. He did doctoral work in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He also has a Masters degree in Human-Machine Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech and undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Oregon.
Gurneeta Vasudeva
Gurneeta Vasudeva is currently Energy Program Director at the Energy and Security Group (ESG), a U.S based consulting group serving federal agencies, private sector organizations and international development agencies. Prior to joining ESG, Gurneeta worked as Research Associate with the Modeling and Economic Analysis group of the Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) in New Delhi and as Vice President TERI-NA in Washington D.C. Gurneeta is a recipient of the 2004 U.S National Science Foundation Fellowship to work with the Transitions to New Technologies Group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. Gurneeta earned a Masters degree in Applied Operations Research in 1996 and a Bachelors degree in Mathematical Statistics in 1994 from the University of Delhi, India. Gurneeta is in the final stages of completing her Ph.D. dissertation in Strategic Management and Public Policy at the George Washington University’s Business School in Washington D.C. Her research focuses on combining theoretical and empirical approaches in investigating the trajectories for technology learning and pathways for diffusion of fuel cells.
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