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on the development of solar, wind, and battery storage capacity across
North America and internationally. Michael is also a 2020 fellow at the
Clean Energy Leadership Institute and is a Research Associate at the
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, where he was formerly the OIESSaudi Aramco Fellow. He previously spent five years as a management
consultant in the Global Energy & Utilities practice of PA Consulting
Group, where he helped launch and grow the firm’s Mexico City office
from two to more than ten consultants, and worked with utilities, IPPs,
private equity, and other investors on market and regulatory challenges
facing the energy industry. Prior to consulting, Michael worked at the
Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control,
the White House, and was a Fulbright Scholar. He holds a master’s degree
focused on energy economics from Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Iberdrola Scholar), and graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political
Science from Tulane University.
Jim Krane, Ph.D. is the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at
Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He specializes in energy
geopolitics, with a focus on oil-exporting countries and the challenges
they face from energy subsidies, internal demand, and climate change.
Jim spent nearly 20 years as a journalist, six of them in the Middle East.
He is the author of two books. His acclaimed 2009 volume City of Gold:
Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism is widely recognized as the seminal
work on the iconoclastic city-state, while his 2019 book Energy Kingdoms:
Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf is the definitive study of
energy demand in the region. As a journalist, was a longtime correspondent for the Associated Press, based in New York, Baghdad, and Dubai.
He has written for myriad other publications including The Washington
Post, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. He is the winner of several
journalism awards, including the 2003 AP Managing Editors Deadline
Reporting Award, for coverage of Saddam Hussein’s capture in Iraq. Jim
earned a bachelor’s degree from City College of New York and a master’s
from Columbia University prior to receiving his Ph.D. from Cambridge
University. He lives in Houston with his wife and two children.
Mari Luomi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Emirates Diplomatic
Academy, where she leads the research program on Energy, Climate
Change, and Sustainable Development. Specializing in the politics and
political economy of natural resources and the environment, she is an
expert in international climate politics, and sustainable development in
on the development of solar, wind, and battery storage capacity across
North America and internationally. Michael is also a 2020 fellow at the
Clean Energy Leadership Institute and is a Research Associate at the
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, where he was formerly the OIESSaudi Aramco Fellow. He previously spent five years as a management
consultant in the Global Energy & Utilities practice of PA Consulting
Group, where he helped launch and grow the firm’s Mexico City office
from two to more than ten consultants, and worked with utilities, IPPs,
private equity, and other investors on market and regulatory challenges
facing the energy industry. Prior to consulting, Michael worked at the
Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control,
the White House, and was a Fulbright Scholar. He holds a master’s degree
focused on energy economics from Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Iberdrola Scholar), and graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political
Science from Tulane University.
Jim Krane, Ph.D. is the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at
Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He specializes in energy
geopolitics, with a focus on oil-exporting countries and the challenges
they face from energy subsidies, internal demand, and climate change.
Jim spent nearly 20 years as a journalist, six of them in the Middle East.
He is the author of two books. His acclaimed 2009 volume City of Gold:
Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism is widely recognized as the seminal
work on the iconoclastic city-state, while his 2019 book Energy Kingdoms:
Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf is the definitive study of
energy demand in the region. As a journalist, was a longtime correspondent for the Associated Press, based in New York, Baghdad, and Dubai.
He has written for myriad other publications including The Washington
Post, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. He is the winner of several
journalism awards, including the 2003 AP Managing Editors Deadline
Reporting Award, for coverage of Saddam Hussein’s capture in Iraq. Jim
earned a bachelor’s degree from City College of New York and a master’s
from Columbia University prior to receiving his Ph.D. from Cambridge
University. He lives in Houston with his wife and two children.
Mari Luomi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Emirates Diplomatic
Academy, where she leads the research program on Energy, Climate
Change, and Sustainable Development. Specializing in the politics and
political economy of natural resources and the environment, she is an
expert in international climate politics, and sustainable development in