Experts in the News

Vivian Ho, chair in health economics, is quoted about the need to solve the health spending problem in order to deal with the U.S. national debt.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has yet to explain his big economic reform vision in enough detail, says Russell Green, Will Clayton Fellow in International Economics.

Russell Green, Will Clayton Fellow in International Economics, is quoted about Narendra Modi, the new prime minister of India.

Founding director Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian discussed U.S. options to combat ISIS with Houston Public Media. “Military solutions are very important to degrade and diminish and ultimately destroy their capabilities, but the more important aspect is the overall political approach, to get some of the root causes of the rise of Islamic radicalism in the Middle East,” said Djerejian.

The tanker loaded with Kurdish oil currently idling off the Texas coast may provide a bargaining chip for enhancing U.S. influence in Iraq, write Jim Krane, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies, and Ted Loch-Temzelides, Baker Institute Rice faculty scholar, in the Forbes blog.