Speaker: Amy Myers Jaffe, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies and director of the Energy Forum at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, discusses energy demand in China and that country's influence on global energy prices and the environment.
She also analyzes how trends in China’s energy use will influence U.S.-China relations and the U.S. oil industry's involvement in China’s energy sector.
Jaffe is a leading expert on the changing geopolitics of oil, energy security and risk. Formerly senior editor and Middle East analyst for Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, she is co-author with Mahmoud El-Gamal of Oil, Dollars, Debt and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold..