Amy Myers Jaffe Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies e-mail 713-348-2148 CV

AMY MYERS JAFFE, a Princeton University graduate in Arabic studies, is the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and associate director of the Rice University Energy Program, a multidisciplinary program that includes activities addressing energy science and technology policy and research on the following topics: emerging energy technologies, environmental implications of energy production and use, and sustainable strategies for fulfilling the world's energy needs. Jaffe leads the Baker Institute Energy Forum, a multifaceted program that promotes original, forward-looking discussion and research on the energy-related challenges that face society in the 21st century. The mission of the Energy Forum is to promote the development of informed and realistic public policy choices in the energy arena by educating policymakers and the public about important trends - both regional and global - that shape the nature of global energy markets and include the quantity and security of vital supplies needed to fuel world economic growth and prosperity. Jaffe's energy programs support projects in 13 departments and five centers at Rice University.

Jaffe's research focuses on the subjects of oil geopolitics, strategic energy policy - including energy science policy - and energy economics. She is widely published in academic journals and numerous book volumes including the following: a co-authored article in the The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, "Energy Security: Meeting the Growing Challenge of National Oil Companies, (Summer 2007); Survival, "The Persian Gulf and the Geopolitics of Oil," (Spring 2006); in Getting Ready for a Nuclear-Ready Iran "Reducing Vulnerability of the Strait of Hormuz, (U.S. Army War College, 2005); Survival, "Beijing's Oil Diplomacy," (2002); Foreign Affairs, "The Shocks of a World of Cheap Oil," (2000); and the chapter, "Geopolitics of Energy," in the Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier Academic Press, 2004). She served as co-editor of two books: Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040 (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Energy in the Caspian Region: Present and Future (Palgrave, 2002) and was a major contributor to Energy and Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005). Her other works include numerous articles and book chapters on oil in the Middle East, Russia, China, and the Caspian Basin, in addition to her work on the subject of U.S. energy policy.

Jaffe was among the 2004 Key Women in Energy-Americas honorees in the Pathfinders/Trailblazers category, which recognizes "women who broke traditional barriers or changed the face of the energy industry at some point in their career." In 2005 she was named an honoree for Esquire's annual 100 Best and Brightest in the contribution to society category and Elle magazine's 2006 Women for the Environment. She has been named to Who's Who in America, 2008, and was a contributor to Foreign Policy magazine's "21 Solutions to Save the World" (May/June 2007). She also received the 1994 Award for Excellence by the International Association for Energy Economics and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Jaffe served as member of the reconstruction and economy working group of the Baker/Hamilton Iraq Study Group and was a major contributor to the recent joint Baker Institute/CFR task force on Guiding Principles for U.S. Post-Conflict Policy in Iraq . She has also served as an advisor to the U.S. National Intelligence Council Study on Energy to 2015, as project director for the Baker Institute/CFR task force on Strategic Energy Policy, and as a principal advisor to USAID's project on Options for Developing a Long Term Sustainable Iraqi Oil Industry. She is currently serving as a strategic advisor to the American Automobile Association (AAA) of the United States helping the motor club fashion a voice for the American motorist in the U.S. energy policy debate.

Jaffe is a principal author of the Baker Institute's numerous energy studies that cover energy policy and trends in the Middle East, Caspian Basin, China, Russia and Japan, as well as emerging technologies in the nuclear, nanotechnology, and natural gas sectors. Jaffe is currently organizing a major study on oil, the dollar, national debt and market crises as well as a major initiative on global poverty and energy. Prior to joining the Baker Institute, Jaffe was the senior editor and Middle East analyst for Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, a respected oil journal. She has written for a variety of news organizations including The New York Times, Dow Jones International, and the Mideast Report. Jaffe is a frequent keynote speaker at major energy industry conferences and is a widely quoted commentator on oil and energy policy in the international media and has provided testimony on Capitol Hill on energy matters. She appears regularly on a variety of television news stations and programs including CNN, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," "The Glenn Beck Show," FOX, MSNBC, National Public Radio, as well as on local broadcasts in New York and Houston.

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