Amy Myers Jaffe

Amy Myers Jaffe is a leading expert on the geopolitics of oil and gas and energy security and is an influential thought leader on global energy policy and sustainability. Jaffe is managing director of the Climate Policy Lab and research professor at Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Previously, she was director of the program on energy Security and Climate Change for the Council on Foreign Relations, and served as chair of the Future of Oil & Gas at the World Economic Forum. A frequent keynote speaker at major energy industry and investment conferences and board of directors meetings, Jaffe is a widely quoted commentator on energy and the environment in international media who has provided testimony on Capital Hill. Jaffe appears regularly on a variety of television and print media, including CNN, PBS New Hour, FOX, Al-Jazeera TV, MSNBC, National Public Radio, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times of London. Her writings have been featured by the New York Times, Dow Jones International, and Petroleum Intelligence Weekly. She has a regular blog at the Houston Chronicle and is a contributor on energy and climate change to the Wall Street Journal's blog The Experts. Jaffe is a member of the National Petroleum Council and serves as an advisory board member of GE Ecoimagination and as a technical committee member on shale gas for the Union of Concerned Scientists. A contributor to Foreign Policy magazine's "21 Solutions to Save the World" and recipient of the Award for Excellence in Energy Writing by the International Association for Energy Economics, Jaffe was named to Esquire's annual 100 Best and Brightest and Elle Magazine's Women for the Environment.