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Joe Barnes

Bonner Means Baker Fellow

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Email: jjbarnes@rice.edu
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Joe Barnes has been a research fellow at the Baker Institute since 1995. Barnes is the Bonner Means Baker Fellow at the institute, and his chief area of interest is international economics with a focus on the geopolitics of energy. In addition to numerous institute studies, Barnes’ work has also appeared in The New York Times, the Houston Chronicle, Survival, Z Magazine, Oil and Gas Journal, Energy Markets, the Newsletter of the Royal United Services Institute, the SAIS Policy Forum Series, and the National Interest. He is a contributor to two volumes, Energy in the Caspian Region published by Palgraeve Press and United States Tax Reform in the 21st Century published by Cambridge University Press. His work was recently published in Natural Gas and Geopolitics from 1970 to 2040(Cambridge University Press,2006). Barnes is advisor to the Baker Institute Student Forum. From 1979 to 1993, he was a career diplomat with the United States State Department. Barnes is a graduate of Princeton University.

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