Experts in the News

To make internet voting viable, time is needed to develop the technology and end-to-end encryption. “Will we be in a different world 10 years from now? Almost certainly,” said Baker Institute Rice faculty scholar Dan Wallach. “But ... we’re nowhere near ready for this today.” 

"If the prospects for future economic growth are systematically or probabilistically too high, then so is future energy energy demand growth," said energy fellow Mark Finley of the possibility that long-term oil demand models are too optimistic. 

The trajectory of new cases shows the urgent need to expand Covid-19 testing and contact tracing, said health policy fellow Peter Hotez.  Some models have “predicted this rise, but then projected the increase will accelerate even further as we progress through the summer.” 

“I think we’re seeing the broader forces of deglobalization, which is also accelerated by the Covid-19 crisis,” said energy fellow Mark Finley of the effects of the pandemic on the oil and gas industry. 

“If the concept of compensation for [quota] cheating holds in the future, Saudi Arabia will be all the more powerful and OPEC’s claims more credible," said energy fellow Jim Krane of the OPEC+ 2.0 pact.