The Second Annual Weatherhead East Asian Institute China Symposium
"Feeding the Giant: The Domestic and Global Impact of China's Energy Needs"
April 21, 2007
Philip Andrews-Speed is Professor of Energy Policy and Director of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, UK. He spent 14 years as a geologist in the international mining and petroleum industries before coming to the Centre in 1994, gaining an LLM in Energy Law and Policy, and joining the academic staff. He leads the Centre’s China Programme, which covers research, consultancy, and professional training in the oil, gas, electricity, and mining sectors. The focus of the research is on energy policy, regulation and reform, and the interface between energy policy and international relations. Recent publications include: The Strategic Implications of China’s Energy Needs (Adelphi Paper 346, 2002) and Energy Policy and Regulation in the People’s Republic of China (Kluwer Law International, 2004).
Edward C. Chow is an international business consultant with expertise and experience working in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, South America, Europe, and the former Soviet Union. He has developed policy and business strat egies and successfully negotiated complex, multi-billion dollar international business ventures for private firms and international governments. He specializes in investments in emerging economies and international oil and gas. Recent clients include U.S. and foreign governments, major international oil companies, leading U.S. multinational corporations, and European firms. Prior to establishing his own consulting practice in 1999, Mr. Chow spent 20 years with the Chevron Corporation in the U.S. and overseas, including heading its Beijing office from 1989 to 1991.
Erica S. Downs is the China Energy Fellow in the China Initiative at the Brookings Institution. She previously worked as an energy analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, a political analyst at the Rand Corporation, and a lecturer at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing, China. She earned a Ph.D. and an M.A. from Princeton University and a B.S. from Georgetown University.
Robert E. Ebel is chairman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Energy Program where he provides analysis on world oil and energy issues. Ebel served with the CIA for 11 years and spent over seven years with the Office of Oil and Gas in the Department of Interior. He also served for some 14 years as vice president, international affairs, at ENSERCH Corporation. He has traveled widely in the former Soviet Union, first visiting that country in 1960 as a member of a U.S. oil delegation. Ebel is the author of a number of books, including The Petroleum Industry of the Soviet Union (1961), Communist Trade in Oil and Gas (1970), Energy Choices in Russia (1994), Energy Choices in the Near Abroad (1997), and China's Energy Future (2005). He holds an M.A. in international relations from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and a B.S. in petroleum geology from Texas Tech University. In 2002, he received the Department of State's Distinguished Public Service Award.
Elizabeth Economy is C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director of Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her areas of expertise include Chinese domestic and foreign policy, Sino-U.S. relations, and global environmental issues. Dr. Economy has published widely on both Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Her most recent book, The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future (Cornell University Press, 2004), was named one of the top ten books of 2004 by The Globalist and won the International Convention on Asia Scholars award for best social sciences book published on Asia in 2003 or 2004. Dr. Economy has taught at Columbia University, John Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies. Dr. Economy received her B.A. from Swarthmore College, A.M. from Stanford University, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Hurst Groves has been Director of Columbia University’s Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy since its inception in the summer of 2000. He was appointed Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs in July 2002. Prior to joining Columbia, Mr. Groves was Managing Counsel of Mobil Corporation in Fairfax, Virginia. During his 23-year career at Mobil, he was chief counsel for Mobil’s transition efforts related to its merger with Exxon Corporation; managed the international legal group that provided advice for the major business transactions undertaken by Mobil and its affiliates around the world; and served as General Counsel of Mobil’s Exploration and Producing Division, among other senior legal positions in the company. Prior to joining Mobil in 1977, Mr. Groves practiced corporate and finance law in the New York and Paris offices of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He is a member of the New York and Indiana Bars, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. Groves received his A.B. degree from Princeton University in 1963, a Certificat d’Etudes Politiques from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris in 1964, and a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1967. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
David Hale is a Chicago-based economist whose clients include investment management firms, major hedge funds, and multinational companies in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South Africa. He is the founding chairman of Hale Advisors and also founded China Online, a website that provided daily business news on China. He worked as chief economist for Kemper Financial Services from 1977 to 1995 and Zurich Financial Services, which he joined as chief economist when it purchased Kemper in 1995. He advised the group’s fund management and insurance operations on economic outlooks and a wide range of public policy issues until 2002, when he founded Hale Advisors. Mr. Hale holds a B.Sc. degree in international economic affairs from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a M.Sc. degree in economics from the London School of Economics.
Merit E. Janow has been, for the past eleven years, Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Columbia Law School. She teaches advanced courses in international trade/WTO law, comparative antitrust law and international economic policy. Professor Janow is currently one of the seven Members of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Appellate Body, which is the court of final appeal for intergovernmental trade disputes in Geneva, Switzerland. She is the only North American Member and the first female to serve on the Appellate Body. From 1997 to 2000, Professor Janow served as the Executive Director of an international antitrust advisory committee to the Attorney General and the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to joining Columbia’s faculty, Professor Janow served as Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China from 1990-93. Early in her career, Professor Janow was a corporate lawyer specializing in cross-border mergers and acquisitions with the global law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York and before that she worked on international trade policy matters at a U.S. think tank. Professor Janow is the author of several books and dozens of articles on international trade and antitrust law and policy and Japan and Asia Pacific legal and policy matters. She grew up in Tokyo, Japan, and is fluent in Japanese. She holds a B.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
Daisy Liu is Manager of International Government Affairs for Asia Pacific for ConocoPhillips. She is based at ConocoPhillips headquarters in Houston, Texas. Ms. Liu is responsible for managing ConocoPhillips international government relations in the Asia Pacific region and interfacing with the diplomatic community in Washington, DC and various industry associations. Prior to her current assignment, she was the Project Director for business development and negotiations for exploration and production. Ms. Liu holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Rutgers University and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University. She is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators and serves on the board of Asia Society Texas.
Xiaobo Lü is Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University and Professor of Political Science , Barnard College . Professor L ü teaches courses on Chinese politics, public administration , and comparative politics. His research interests include post-socialist political economies, corruption and good governance, regulatory reforms , and government-business relations. He has published widely on these subjects and consults for business firms, civic groups, and government agencies. He is the author of the book Cadres and Corruption (2000). His recent book (with Thomas Bernstein ) is on the political and economic changes in the Chinese countryside, Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China (2003). In 2003-4, he was a visiting professor at Tsinghua University and Jiaotong University in mainland China; City University of Hong Kong; Sciences-Po; and Paris University I-Sorbonne in Paris. Lü is a member of Council on Foreign Relations, Committee of 100, and the National Committee on US-China Relations. He is a regular commentator on China and US-China relations for PBS, CNN, BBC, and NPR and has delivered speeches and briefings to organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Foundation, the Asia Society, World Affairs Council, National Committee on US-China Relations, American Center for International Leadership, Asia Society, China Institute, and the Japan Society. Xiaobo Lü received his Ph.D. degree in political science in 1994 from the University of California, Berkeley.
Kimberly Marten (formerly Kimberly Marten Zisk) is a professor of political science at Barnard College, Columbia University. She has written three books: Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past (Columbia University Press, 2004); Weapons, Culture, and Self-Interest: Soviet Defense Managers in the New Russia (Columbia University Press, 1997); and Engaging the Enemy: Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation (Princeton University Press, 1993), which received the Marshall Shulman Prize. She has also written numerous journal articles, book chapters, op eds, and policy memos, including several recent ones focusing on security issues in post-Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan. She has completed two open-source contract projects for the Director of Net Assessment at the Pentagon, one on the future of the Russian military organization, and one on emerging threats in post-Soviet Central Asia. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She will be traveling to Kazakhstan in May to study foreign investment in that country’s petroleum industry.
Fareed Mohamedi is a Partner of PFC Energy and Head of the Country Strategies Group, which houses PFC Energy's expertise in country risk and petroleum sector policy. Mr. Mohamedi works closely with PFC Energy's economics team, and is an expert on national oil companies and the challenges they face. He has been at PFC Energy since 1990. Between 1996 and 1998, he led the company's market analysis and country risk teams. He left the company briefly in 1998 to join Moody's Investors Service, where as Vice President/Senior Analyst he was the lead country analyst for a number of petroleum and gas producing countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Kazakhstan. Mr. Mohamedi returned to PFC Energy in 2000 as Chief Economist. Before joining PFC Energy, he worked as an economist at the Institute of International Finance in the Middle East and Asia departments at the World Bank's Africa department, at Wharton Econometrics Forecasting Associates' Middle East service, and at the economic research section of the Ministry of Finance and National Economy in Bahrain. Mr. Mohamedi holds a B.A. in Economics from Western Michigan University and an M.A. from the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Douglas Ogden is executive vice president of the Energy Foundation in San Francisco, and director of the China Sustainable Energy Program (CSEP) in Beijing. CSEP is a partnership of private foundations including the Energy Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and others. It focuses on energy efficiency and renewable energy policy development in the People’s Republic of China as a solution to China’s public health and environmental challenges. Formerly, Mr. Ogden coordinated the Energy Foundation’s grant-making in renewable energy and U.S. federal energy policy. He practiced environmental law and litigation with the Seattle law firm Foster Pepper & Shefelman, and taught for two academic years at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China (1983-85). He holds a B.A. from Stanford (1982), a certificate in Chinese law from the East China Institute of Law and Politics (Shanghai, 1987), a J.D. from the University of Washington (1989), and an M.P.A. from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (1995). He serves on the boards of several for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, writes and speaks frequently on U.S. and international energy topics, and teaches energy policy at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
James T.H. Tang is currently a visiting fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution where he is conducting projects on China’s foreign policy and energy security and China-Hong Kong interactions. He is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Associate Professor and former Head in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. He also worked in the research department of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and taught in the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Tang holds a B.A. from the University of Hong Kong, an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has held visiting appointments at Peking University, the University of Durham, and at the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University. His areas of expertise include Hong Kong, Chinese Foreign Policy, East Asian international relations, and non-traditional security in East Asia.
Kang Wu is a Senior Fellow at the East-West Center and conducts energy and economic research activities with a focus on the Asia-Pacific Region. Dr. Wu specializes in studies of energy policies, security, demand, supply, trade, and market developments, as well as energy-economic links, oil and gas issues, and the impact of fossil energy consumption on the environment. Dr. Wu is an energy expert on China and supervises the China Energy Project at the East-West Center. He is also familiar with energy sector issues in other major Asia-Pacific countries and the region as a whole. As an energy economist, Dr. Wu’s work includes energy modeling and Asia-Pacific energy demand forecasting. Dr. Wu received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1991. He was a Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center from 1991 to 1993 and joined the Center’s research program in 1993. Dr. Wu is the author and co-author of numerous journal articles, project reports, professional studies, conference papers, and other publications. He speaks frequently at international conferences, forums, workshops, and training programs. In addition, his research has been widely cited by press and industrial media, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, Far Eastern Economic Review, Journal of Commerce, The Strait Times, Honolulu Advertiser, Pacific Business News, Radio Free Asia, Reuters, Associated Press, Voice of America, BBC, Dow Jones Energy Services, Bloomberg News, KGMB 9 News, and KITV 4/ABC News.
