Kenneth B. Medlock III
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Fellow in Energy Studies
Kenneth B. Medlock III is currently a Fellow in Energy Studies at the James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Rice University. He is a principal in the development of the Rice World Natural Gas Trade Model, which is aimed at assessing the future of LNG trade. Medlock’s research covers a wide range of topics in energy economics, such as domestic and international natural gas markets, choice in electricity generation capacity and the importance of diversification, gasoline markets, emerging technologies in the transportation sector, modeling national oil company behavior, economic development and energy demand, forecasting energy demand, and energy use and the environment. Medlock’s research has been published in academic journals, book chapters, and industry periodicals. Recent works include “The Baker Institute World Gas Trade Model” and “Political and Economic Influences on the Future World Market for Natural Gas” in Natural Gas and Geopolitics: 1970-2040 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), “LNG Trading Evolves” in the Fundamentals of the World Gas Industry (Petroleum Economist, 2006), and “Energy Trade in China and Northeast Asia” in Energy Security in the 21st Century: A New Foreign Policy Strategy (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2005). He won the International Association of Energy Economics Award for Best Paper of the Year in the Energy Journal in 2001 (joint with Ron Soligo). Medlock also served as the lead modeler on the Modeling Subgroup of the National Petroleum Council (NPC) for the recently published study of long-term natural gas markets in North America, which was released in 2003, and was a contributing author to the California Energy Commission’s and Western Interstate Energy Board’s Western Natural Gas Assessment in 2005. He is also participating in the 2006 NPC Global Oil and Gas study. Prior to returning to Rice, Medlock held the position of corporate consultant at El Paso Energy Corporation, where he was responsible for fundamental analysis of North American natural gas, petroleum, and power markets. From May 2000 to May 2001, Medlock held the MD Anderson Fellowship at the Baker Institute. Medlock received a PhD in economics from Rice University in May 2000. His areas of specialization are in the fields of energy and environmental economics and policy and macroeconomic theory, with interests in applied econometrics and applied microeconomics.
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