Center for Energy Studies Fellows, Staff and Associates
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Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ph.D, is the James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics at Rice University’s Baker Institute and the senior director of the Center for Energy Studies, as well as an adjunct professor and lecturer in the Department of Economics at Rice University. 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 has published numerous scholarly articles in his primary areas of interest: natural gas markets, energy commodity price relationships, gasoline markets, transportation, national oil company behavior, economic development and energy demand, and energy use and the environment. He also teaches courses in energy economics and supervises Ph.D. students in the energy economics field.
Medlock is currently the vice president for academic affairs for the United States Association for Energy Economics (USAEE). In 2001, he won (joint with Ron Soligo) the International Association for Energy Economics Award for Best Paper of the Year in the Energy Journal. In 2011, he was given the USAEE’s Senior Fellow Award. He is also an active member of the American Economic Association and the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and is an academic member of the National Petroleum Council (NPC). Medlock has 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 NPC study of long-term natural gas markets in North America, and was a contributing author to the recent NPC study “North American Resource Development.”
Core Fellows
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James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics Fellow in Information Technology Policy and Director, Program on Energy and Cybersecurity, Center for Energy Studies |
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Baker Institute Scholar for Latin American Energy Studies |
CES Staff
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Research Analyst |
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Program Administrator |
Graduate Fellows
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Burcu Cigereli |
Ph.D. in Economics, Spring 2013 |
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Xinya Zhang |
Ph.D. in Economics, Spring 2013 |
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Andre Barbe |
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, 2014 |
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Gizem Keskin |
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, 2014 |
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Likeleli Seitlheko |
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, 2014 |
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Mark Agerton |
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics |
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Aditya Jani |
Ph.D. Candidate in CEVE |
Associate Fellows and Scholars
Joe Barnes, Bonner Means Baker Fellow
Dagobert L. Brito, Ph.D., Economics and Baker Institute Rice Scholar
Jareer Elass, Consultant
Mahmoud Amin El-Gamal, Ph.D., Baker Institute Rice Scholar, Chair of Islamic Economics, Finance and Management and Professor of Economics & Statistics, Rice University
Peter R. Hartley, Ph.D., Baker Institute Rice Scholar, George and Cynthia Mitchell Chair in Sustainable Development and Environmental Economics, Professor of Economics
Steven W. Lewis, Ph.D., C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow; Jesse Jones Leadership Center Summer Intern Program Coordinator
Ronald Soligo, Ph.D., Baker Institute Rice Scholar, Professor of Economics, Rice University
Robert M. Stein, Ph.D., Fellow in Urban Politics, Baker Institute for Public Policy; Lena Grohlman Fox Professor, Department of Political Science, Rice University
Ted Loch-Temzelides, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Rice University
Participating Researchers & Rice Faculty
Wade Adams, Ph.D., Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscience and Technology
Pedro J. Alvarez, Ph.D., Civil Engineering
Yildiz Bayazitoglu, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
George Bennett, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Mary Ellen Carroll, Architecture
Walter Chapman, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering
Matthew Chen, Policy Assistant to the Founding Director, Baker Institute for Public Policy
Daniel Cohan, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering
David Bryan Cook, Ph.D., Religious Studies and Baker Institute Rice Scholar
Gerald Dickens, Ph.D., Earth Science
Andre Droxler, Ph.D., Earth Science
Leonardo Duenas-Osorio, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering
Brandon Dugan, Ph.D., Earth Science
Mark Embree, Ph.D., Computational and Applied Mathematics
Michael Emerson, Ph.D., Sociology
Songying Fang, Ph.D., Political Science
Jeff Fleming, Ph.D., Management, Jones Graduate School of Management
Erika de la Garza, Program Director, Latin America Initiative, Baker Institute for Public Policy
Eugenia Georges, Ph.D., Anthropology
Ramon Gonzalez, Ph.D., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Robert Hauge, Ph.D., Chemistry
George Hirasaki, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering
Stephen Klineberg, Ph.D., Sociology
Neal Lane, Ph.D., Physics & Astronomy
Elizabeth Long, Ph.D., Sociology
Carrie Masiello, Ph.D., Earth Science
Peter Mieszkowski, Ph.D., Economics and Baker Institute Rice Scholar
T. Clifton Morgan, Ph.D., Political Science
Martha Brill Olcott, Ph.D., Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Barbara Ostdiek, Ph.D., Management & Statistics, Jones Graduate School of Management
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D, Bioengineering
Ronald L. Sass, Ph.D., Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Howard Khan Schmidt, Ph.D., Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscience and Technology
Robin Sickles, Ph.D., Economics
Robert M. Stein, Ph.D., Political Science
Richard J. Stoll, Ph.D., Political Science and Baker Institute Rice Scholar
Al Troner, President, Asia Pacific Energy Consulting (APEC)
Fred R. von der Mehden, Ph.D., Political Science
Xiaojie Xu, Ph.D., Director, Institute of Overseas Investment Climate Evaluation,
CNPC Research Academy of Economics and Technology in Beijing
Kyriacos Zygourakis, Ph.D., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Bioengineering
