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Amy Myers Jaffe

Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies

Associate Director, Rice Energy Program

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Email: amjaffe@rice.edu
Office Phone: 713-348-2148
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Biography:

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. Jaffe’s research focuses on the subject of oil geopolitics, strategic energy policy including energy science policy, and energy economics. Jaffe is widely published in academic journals and numerous book volumes and served as co-editor of Energy in the Caspian Region: Present and Future (Palgrave, 2002) and Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040 (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Jaffe served as a member of the reconstruction and economy working group of the Baker/Hamilton Iraq Study Group, as project director for the Baker Institute/Council on Foreign Relations task force on Strategic Energy Policy, and as a principal advisor to US AID’s project on Options for Developing a Long Term Sustainable Iraqi Oil Industry. Jaffe was among the 2004 Key Women in Energy-Americas honorees in the Pathfinders/Trailblazers category and was among Esquire Magazine’s 100 Best and Brightest honorees in the contribution to society category in 2005. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and received the 1994 Award for Excellence by the International Association for Energy Economics. Prior to joining the Baker Institute, Jaffe was the senior editor and Middle East analyst for Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, a respected oil journal. Jaffe has written for a variety of news media including the New York Times, Dow Jones International, and the Mideast Report.

ASSOCIATED PUBLICATIONS
  • Jaffe, Amy M. and David G. Victor. Introduction and conclusion to Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040. Edited by Amy M. Jaffe and David G. Victor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Jaffe, Amy Myers. "Security at Risk Without Changes." Indianapolis Star, August 27, 2006.
  • Jaffe, Amy Myers. Testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. "Russia: Back to the Future?" June 29, 2006.
  • Jaffe, Amy Myers and Joe Barnes. "The Persian Gulf and the Geopolitics of Oil." Survival(International Institute for Strategic Studies), Spring 2006.
  • Jaffe, Amy and Dagobert Brito. "Reducing Vulnerability of the Strait of Hormuz.” In Getting Ready for a Nuclear-Ready Iran, edited Henry Sokolski and Patrick Clawson. Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 2005.
  • Jaffe, Amy Myers and Kenneth B. Medlock, III. "China and Northeast Asia." In Energy and Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy, edited by Jan H. Kalicki and David L. Goldwyn, 267-291. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
  • Morse, Edward L. and Amy Myers Jaffe. "OPEC in Confrontation with Globalization." In Energy and Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy, edited by Jan H. Kalicki and David L. Goldwyn, 65-96. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
  • 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 17, no. 2, (July 2004).
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