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Amy Myers Jaffe

Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
Associate Director, Rice Energy Program
713-348-2148
amjaffe@rice.edu

Research Fields

Oil Geopolitics, International relations and U.S. Foreign policy; strategic energy policy, including energy science policy; energy economics
Current Research

Case study on the oil industry of Iraq; Case study on the national oil company of Saudi Arabia; US energy policy; policy framework for promoting solar energy and distributed electricity; biofuels policy; Russian energy strategy; Investment patterns/industry concentration in non-OPEC oil exploration

Education

Princeton University

  • Graduation: 1980
  • Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Near Eastern Studies and Arabic
Awards & Distinguished

Member, Economy and Reconstruction Working Group, Baker/Hamilton Iraq Study Group; Director, Baker Institute/Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Energy Policy; Award for Excellence in Writing, International Association for Energy Economics, 1994; Honoree, Women in Energy Americas- 2003; 2005 Esquire Magazine The 100 Best and Brightest Award, Contribution to Society; Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Elle Magazine, June 2006, Women for the Environment; Presenter: Japanese National Energy Security Committee hearings; Team Member, USAID, “Options for Developing a Long Term Sustainable Iraqi Oil Industry; Participant, Dartmouth Conference on conflict in the Caspian Basin (Kettering Foundation). Participant: Baker Institute/Council on Foreign Relations Working Group on Guiding Principles for Post-War Iraq; Keynote Speaker, Offshore Technology Conference, 2002, APPG 2003. IDAC 2004; SAP 2005; IPAA 2005; Participant, Dallas Morning News Energy Forecasters annual editorial board meeting; Keynote speaker at various conferences; Aspen Institute Congressional Program in Moscow, 2003; Briefing to the US Undersecretary of State for Business Affairs on Oil markets and Iraq, September 2002; Advisor, National Intelligence Council on Energy in 2015 Project; Best of faculty lecturer for Alumni Week and Parent’s Weekend, 2000-2003, 2005
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Publishing


ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND REVIEWED BOOK VOLUMES


Co-Editor and author of introduction and conclusion with David Victor, Natural Gas and Geopolitics from 1970 to 2030, Cambridge University Press,  June, 2006

Jaffe, Amy and Joe Barnes. The Persian Gulf and the Geopolitics of Oil. IISS Survival, Spring 2006.

Jaffe, Amy and Dagobert Brito, “Reducing Vulnerability of Persian Gulf Oil”  Coping with a Nuclear Ready Iran, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, 2005

Jaffe, Amy and Kenneth B. Medlock III, "China and Northeast Asia,"
Energy and Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy, Eds.  Jan H. Kalicki and David L.Goldwyn, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005: 267-291

Edward L.  Morse and Amy Myers Jaffe, "OPEC in Confrontation with
Globalization," Energy and Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy, Eds.  Jan H. Kalicki and David L.Goldwyn, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005: 65-96

Neff, Shirley and Amy Myers Jaffe, "Review of the Energy Policy Act of
2005," Oxford Energy Forum, November/December 2005.

Jaffe, Amy and Ronald Soligo, “Re-Evaluating U.S. Strategic Priorities in the Caspian Region: Balancing Energy Resource Initiatives with Terrorism    Containment” Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. 17, Number 2, July 2004

Jaffe, Amy, The Growing Developing Country Appetite for Oil and Natural Gas, Economic Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 2, May 2004.

Jaffe, Amy and Kenneth Medlock, “Energy in Asia: An Overview” AsianEnergyTrends Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2003

Soligo/Jaffe/Medlock, “The Present Status and Future Prospects of Energy in China”, Asian Energy Trends, Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and
Research, 2003

Jaffe, Amy, Edward Morse, Joe Barnes, “Oil and the New World Order” The National Interest, Dec. 2003

Jaffe, Amy, “United States and the Middle East: Policies and Dilemmas” Memo for the Board of the National Commission on Energy, September 2003

Jaffe, Amy, “Geopolitics of Oil” Encyclopedia of Energy, Elsevier Publishing, March 2003

Co-Editor, with Yelena Kalyuzhnova, Dov Lynch and Robin Sickles, Energy in the Caspian Region: Present and Future, MacMillan Palgrave, 2002

Jaffe/Soligo, "Caspian Pipelines: Pipe Dream or Reality?" Energy in the Caspian Region: Present and Future, edited by Amy Myers Jaffe, Yelna Kalyuzhnova, Dov Lynch and Robin Sickles, 2002

Jaffe/Soligo, “Inventories as a Public Good” QUARTERLY REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE, Vol. 42, 2002. Pg 401-415.
Jaffe/Lewis, “Beijing’s Oil Diplomacy” IISS SURVIVAL, Spring 2002, Vol. 44,  No. 1

Jaffe, Amy, “US Policy Towards the Caspian Region: Can the wishlist be Realized?” The Evolving Security Setting in the Caspian Sea Basin eds. Adam Daniel Rotfield and Gennady Chufrin, Oxford University Press, 2001.

Jaffe, Amy. “The Case of the Caspian Basin” Beyond Transition: Ten Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, UNDP with CESTRAD and the Institute of Social Studies, Edited by Max Spoor; Bratislava, 2001.

Jaffe, Amy, “Energy as a Binding Factor: Asia Revisited” POST-SOVIET GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS, Vol. 42, October-November 2001
Jaffe/Manning, “Russia, Energy and the West” IISS SURVIVAL, Summer 2001, Vol. 42 No. 2

Jaffe, Amy, “The Asian Energy Factor: Cooperation or Confrontation”    HARVARD INTERNATIONAL REVIEW, June 2001

Jaffe, Amy, “Price vs. Market share for the Arab Gulf Producers: Do Caspian Oil Reserves Tilt the Balance” Caspian Energy Resources: Implications for the Arab Gulf, Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2000

Jaffe/Olcott, “The Geopolitics of Caspian Energy” The Euro-Asian World: A Period of Transition Eds. Yelena Kaluzhnova and Dov Lynch, MacMillan Press, London/2000

Jaffe/Barnes, “Energy Trade in Asia” SAIS Policy Forum Series, Report No. 12, June 2000

Jaffe/Manning, “The Shocks of a World of Cheap Oil” FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Jan/Feb. 2000, Vol. 79 No. 1

Jaffe/Soligo, “A Note on Saudi Price Discrimination” Energy Journal, Vol. 21 No. 1, Jan. 2000

Jaffe/Soligo, "China's Growing Energy Dependence: The Costs and Policy Implications of Supply Alternatives," paper for The James A. Baker III Institute  for Public Policy, May 1999.

Jaffe/Manning, “The Myth of the Caspian Great Game: The Real Geopolitics of Energy” IISS SURVIVAL, Winter 1998-99, Vol. 40 No. 4

Jaffe, Amy, “Fact and Fantasy in the Caspian Area” Oxf`ord Energy Forum, Issue  No. 35, November 1998

Jaffe/Soligo, "The Economics of Pipeline Routes: The Conundrum of Oil Exports from the Caspian Basin," Paper for the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, May 1998.


OTHER SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


Jaffe/Soligo, “Market Structure in the New Gas Economy: Is Cartelization Possible? Baker Institute Working Paper and Chapter in Natural Gas and Geopolitics from 1970 to 2030, CambridgeUniversity Press, June 2006

Jaffe/Soligo, “The Future of Saudi Price Discrimination: The Effect of Russian Production” Baker Institute Working Paper, 2004

Jaffe, Amy, “Oil and Stability in the Persian Gulf” The Post War Iraq and the  Future of the Gulf, Study of Fujitsu Research Institute, Japan, April 2004

Jaffe, Amy, “The Growing Developing Country Appetite for Oil and Natural Gas” Geopolitics of Energy, Issue 26, No. 5, May 2004 (Originally published in Economic Perspectives Vol. 9, No 2, March 2004)     

Jaffe, Amy, “Asian Energy Security: Institutions for Multilateral Cooperation” APCSS Meeting, Hawaii, 2003

Jaffe, Amy and Jillene Connors, “International Oil Supply: How Vulnerable Are We?” Foreign Service Journal, Vol. 80, No. 12, December 2003

Jaffe, Amy, “United States and the Middle East: Policy and Dilemmas” Baker Institute, September 2003.

Jaffe, Amy, “The Gulf and the Basin” Middle East Insight, Nov/Dec 1998 Vol. XIII No. 6 Global Oil Geopolitics Post-September 11: Changing Landscapes, Baker Institute working paper, 2002

Jaffe/ Obaid, Morse, Garcia, Bromley, The Sino-Saudi Energy Rapprochement: Implications for US National Security, US Department of Defense, 2002     

Jaffe/Shook, “Developments in Atlantic Basin LNG: Implications for Japan,”   Baker Institute working paper, 2001

Jaffe/Morse “Statement on US Energy Policy: Energy Policy Scorecard” Baker Institute/Council on Foreign Relations, September 2001

Jaffe, Amy “Asia’s Thirst for Fuel: Cooperation and Energy Politics” Harvard International Journal, Vol. 23, No 2, Summer 2001

Jaffe, Amy “World of Plenty: Energy as a Binding Factor” Energy Security and Sustainable Development in Northeast Asia; Prospects for Cooperative Policies Conference report, Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia (Erina) and the Monterey Institute for International Studies, June 2001

Jaffe/Manning “Russian Energy” Russian Security Perceptions, US Army War College, Conference Report, Michael H. Crutcher, Editor, Spring 2001

Jaffe/Morse “Strategic Energy Policy: Challenges for the 21st Century”  A task force report Baker Institute/Council On Foreign Relations, Spring 2001

Jaffe, Amy “Fact and Fantasy in the Caspian Basin” Private View, Turkey, 2000

Jaffe, Amy “Caspian Oil” UNDP Central Asia 2000 Conference Report

Jaffe, Amy “The Falling of Prices and the Lowering of Expectations: Threats to Regional Security and Political Stability” Beyond Transition: Ten Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Conference Report, Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, October 2000

Jaffe/Soligo, “Impact of the Reopening of Upstream Sectors in the Gulf” Middle East Economic Survey, September 4, 2000 Vol. XLIII No. 36 (based on Baker Institute working paper)

Jaffe/Soligo, “ Energy in Cuba”,  Baker Institute Working Paper, Spring 2000

Jaffe, Amy , “Beware of the Sleeping Dragon” Global Energy Business, July/Aug. 1999 Vol. 1 No. 4

Soligo/Jaffe/Mieszkowski, “Energy Security” Baker Institute working paper, 1997

Various articles in the New York Times, New York Sun, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press News Wire, Dow Jones News Wire, Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, World Gas Intelligence, International Petroleum Finance, Mideast Report


SELECTED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

UCLA, Enriching the Middle East’s Economic Future, Doha, Qatar, 2006

Security Challenges to Middle East Oil, 2005

Princeton University, OPEC Geopolitics and Oil Prices, 2005

International Energy Seminar, World Gas Trade Model: Some Implications for South Korea,  July 2005 Japan U.S. Joint Seminar: Recent Developments in the Middle East and Future Oil Supply, The Outlook for Future Oil Supply from the Middle East and Price Implications, Tokyo 2005.

East China Normal University and Shanghai Institute for International Studies, China World Oil Markets and International Cooperation, 2004

Columbia University, China and Oil Geopolitics, 2003; Saudi Oil Policy, February 2002

Aspen Institute Congressional Program, U.S. Russian Energy Cooperation, Moscow 2003

Asia Pacific Center For Security Studies, Pipelines and Faultlines, October 2003

University of California at Berkeley, Oil Geopolitics, 2002

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/UN Foundation/Turner Foundation, Perspectives on International Energy and Environmental Policy, February 2002; International Association of Energy Economics, International meetings, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002

US National Academy of Engineers, Energy Use, Sustainability, 2002

US Energy Research Directors Meeting organized by Carnegie Mellon University, 2002

Rice Global Forum for Engineering and Construction, Oct, 2002

Asia Pacific Center For Security Studies, Energy Cooperation, July 2002

Petroleum Energy Center, Japan: Post-September 11, the Politics of Cross Border, 2002; Saudi Arabia: Political Stability and Oil Politics, 2004;  World Oil  Market Outlook, 2004; Pipelines, Oil Geopolitics: Post-September 11, Tokyo, Japan, January 2002 and March 2002

Participant, Oil and Democracy workshop, Carnegie Endowment, 2001
Saudi-US relations, 2001

Council on Foreign Relations, March 2006 (Oil Trends, annual corporate  meeting); June 2001, Energy Security Policy, annual meeting); May 2001 (discussant for Michael Klare’s new book); April 2001, (Briefing to the US Congress and Senate); June 2000 (Japanese energy security); Dec. 1999 (Japanese nuclear policy); May 1998 (Caspian Energy)

University of Texas, (Caspian Politics) Law School  June 2000

Florida International University, Caspian Geopolitics Nov. 2000 and Middle East Oil Geopolitics Nov. 2001

Russian Academy of Science, Moscow Energy as a Factor in Russian Foreign Policy Feb. 2001

SIPRI, U.S. Caspian Policy: A critique September 2001; U.S. Russian Relations in the Caspian: Energy Issues Feb. 2001; China and the New Oil Geopolitics Oct. 2000; Johns Hopkins University, Persian Gulf Security and Oil June 1997

MIT (Asian Studies), China as an Oil Importer January 2000

University of Seattle, Pipelines from the Caspian November 1999

Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, Caspian Oil: Outlook October 1999

SMU, Long Term Outlook for the Oil Market October 1999
University of Reading, The Economics of Caspian Pipeline Routes October 1999

Washington Institute for the Near East, The Caspian and Iran Oct. 1998;

SELECTED GOVERNMENT PRESENTATIONS


US National Intelligence Council

Office of the Vice President of the United States

US Foreign Service Institute

US Department of State

US Department of Defense

US Department of Energy

Jointly, US Department of Energy, Commerce and State

US Army War College

US Air Force

US Congress

Energy Committee of the Japanese Diet

Japanese Ministry for Economics, Trade and Industry (formerly MITI)

Canadian Security Advisor to the Prime Minister

Abu Dhabi Foreign Ministry

Central Intelligence Agency

Ambassador of Kazakhstan and staff

Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry of Japan

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan


US-China Commission, US Senate

US Senate Foreign Relations Committee

MEDIA

Widely quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times,  Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Times,  Fortune Magazine,USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, Orlando Sentinel,Business Week,Chicago Tribune, and other US local newspapers, NPR, BBC, CBS, ABC radio

OP EDS: New York Times (China Unocal; US-Iran policy), Los Angeles Times (US Caspian  Policy), Houston Chronicle (30th Anniversary of Arab Oil Embargo;US Energy Policy; US-China Policy;US Caspian Policy), Dallas Morning News (US Energy Policy); New York Newsday (Corporate Profits)

Television Appearances:  Lehrer News Hour, CNN, FNN, ABC News,Good Morning America, local news in New York and Houston, History Channel, al-Jazeera TV 


SELECTED INDUSTRY LECTURES

AAA, 2006

Texas Investment Management Forum for Foundations and Charities, 2006

Offshore Technology Conference, 2001, 2002, 2006

SAP, 2005

IPAA, 2005

Accenture Global Discussion, 2003, 2005

Hydrogen Pathways, French Consulate, Houston, 2004

International Energy Agency, Natural Gas Meeting, Houston, 2004

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, 2003

Deutsche Bank Global Oil and Gas, 2002 and 2003

National Petroleum Refiners Association, 2002, 2003

Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2002

Conference on Kazakhstan, 2002

DOE Clean Cities, 2002

Women’s Energy Network, 2002

Duke Energy Meeting on Energy Policy in Australia, with Peter Hartley, 2002

Canadian Crude Oil Conference, 2002

WoodMackensie Consultants annual meeting, 2001, 2002

Petroleum Equipments Supplier Association, 2000, 2001, 2002

Energy Security Council, 2000, 2001, 2002

Energy Council, 2001

McKinsey Consultants, 2000

CWC, Conference on the Middle East, 1999, 2000

Various Executive Boards, Management Strategy or Corporate Board
meetings of Major energy companies



 


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