About Amy Myers Jaffe
Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
As leader of the Baker Institute Energy Forum, and associate director of the Rice University Energy Program, Amy Myers Jaffe promotes, oversees and participates in a wide range of groundbreaking energy research and discussion. Under her guidance, these institutions support projects that address current energy science and technology policy, as well as the energy-related challenges that face society in the 21st century. A regular consultant to various national and international organizations, Jaffe is one of the preeminent sources of information and critical thought on oil and energy policy today.
Jaffe is widely published in the academic realm, and has also written for a number of news publications, including the New York Times, Dow Jones International, and the Mideast Report. A frequent keynote speaker at major energy industry conferences, Jaffe also makes regular appearances on networks and programs like CNN, MacNeil Lehrer News Hour, FOX, and MSNBC.
Research Areas
Oil Geopolitics, Strategic Energy Policy, Energy Science Policy, Energy Economics
Affiliations
Contributor; Baker Institute/CFR task force on Guiding Principles for U.S. Post-Conflict Policy in Iraq
Advisor; U.S. National Intelligence Council Study on Energy to 2015
Project Director; Baker Institute/Council on Foreign Relations task force on Strategic Energy Policy
Principal Advisor; US AID’s project on Options for Developing a Long Term Sustainable Iraqi Oil Industry
Member; Council on Foreign Relations
Senior Editor; Petroleum Intelligence Weekly
Published Work
National Interest, The New Geopolitics of Oil (coauthor) (2003)
Survival, Beijing’s Oil Diplomacy (2002)
Foreign Affairs, The Shocks of a World of Cheap Oil (2000)
The Geopolitics of Natural Gas (co-editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Energy in the Caspian Region: Present and Future (co-editor) (Palgrave, 2002)
Distinctions
Honoree. Esquire’s annual 100 Best and Brightest, contribution to society category. (2005)
Honoree. Key Women in Energy-Americas, Pathfinders/Trailblazers category. (2004)
Award for Excellence. International Association for Energy Ergonomics. (1994)
Education
B.A. Princeton University