James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics
Kenneth Medlock's CV
Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ph.D., is the James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics at the Baker Institute and an adjunct professor and lecturer in the Department of Economics at Rice University. Currently, Medlock heads the Baker Institute Energy Forum’s natural gas program and is a principal in the development of the Rice World Natural Gas Trade Model, which assesses the future of international natural gas trade. He also teaches energy economics courses and supervises students in the energy field. Medlock studies natural gas markets, gasoline markets, energy commodity price relationships, transportation, modeling national oil company behavior, economic development and energy demand, forecasting energy demand, and energy use and the environment.
Medlock is a council member of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), and a member of United States Association for Energy Economics (USAEE), The American Economic Association and the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. In 2001, he won (with Ron Soligo) the IAEE Award for Best Paper of the Year in the Energy Journal. In 2011, he was given the USAEE’s Senior Fellow Award. Medlock also served as an adviser to the U.S. Department of Energy and the California Energy Commission in their respective energy modeling efforts. He was the lead modeler of the Modeling Subgroup of the 2003 National Petroleum Council (NPC) study of long-term natural gas markets in North America, and is involved in the ongoing NPC study “North American Resource Development.”
Medlock received his Ph.D. in economics from Rice and held the MD Anderson Fellowship at the Baker Institute from 2000 to 2001.
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