James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics
Kenneth Medlock's CV
Kenneth B. Medlock III is the James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics at the Baker Institute and adjunct professor in the Rice University Department of Economics. Medlock received a Ph.D. in economics from Rice in 2000 and was the Baker Institute’s M. D. Anderson Fellow from 2000 to 2001. Afterward, he held the position of corporate consultant at El Paso Energy Corporation.
Medlock leads the Baker Institute Energy Forum’s natural gas program. He is a principal in the development of the Rice World Natural Gas Trade Model, aimed at assessing the future of international natural gas trade. He also teaches introductory and advanced courses in energy economics. Medlock’s research covers a wide range of topics in energy economics and has been published in numerous academic journals, book chapters and industry periodicals, as well as in various Energy Forum studies. He is a member of the International Association of Energy Economics (IAEE), and in 2001 he won (joint with Ron Soligo) the IAEE Award for Best Paper of the Year in the Energy Journal.
Medlock has served as an advisor to the Department of Energy in its energy modeling efforts and is a regular participant in Stanford University’s Energy Modeling Forum. Medlock was the lead modeler of the Modeling Subgroup of the 2003 National Petroleum Council (NPC) study of North American natural gas markets, was a contributing author to the California Energy Commission’s and Western Interstate Energy Board’s “Western Natural Gas Assessment” in 2005, and contributed to the 2007 NPC study, “Facing the Hard Truths.”
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