The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ph.D. | Director/Fellow, Center for Energy Studies, Baker Institute, Rice University about Energy Transitions and COVID-19: Framing the Challenges Ahead.
Energy transitions have merged with political transitions, and the implications are enormous. The Biden Administration is aiming to tackle climate change head on using the full weight of various government agencies and aggressive new legislation.
Kenneth B. Medlock, III is the James A. Baker, III and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics and senior director of the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute. He is co-director of the Master of Energy Economics program and an adjunct professor in Economics and Civil and Environmental Engineering. Medlock is a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan – IEEJ Japan and on the Advisory Board of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at Colorado School of Mines.
Medlock has published numerous scholarly articles, has testified multiple times on Capitol Hill on U.S. oil and natural gas exports and geopolitics, has spoken at OPEC, and is frequently asked to speak at venues around the world.
Matt is host of Talking Energy Show and #fossilfuelfridays and is very active in leadership roles by sitting on a number of industry boards and committees.
Matt also runs Oklahoma Oilfield Tailgate, more info can be found here www.oilfieldtailgate.com. He works for Knight Energy Services, LLC.
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