On behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR), Professor Seth Weinberger invites you to participate in the final
session of the CFR Winter/Spring 2012 Academic Conference Call series
on Wednesday, April 25, from 9:00 AM to 10:00
AM in WY 326. Blake Clayton, CFR's fellow for energy and national
security, will discuss energy dependence.
Dr. Clayton joined CFR from Louis Capital
Markets, where he was a senior commodities analyst and head of oil
research. He was a special assistant to the late Matthew R. Simmons,
founder and chairman emeritus of Simmons & Company International,
with whom he worked on launching Ocean Energy Group, a venture capital
firm and think tank focused on early-stage energy innovation. Dr.
Clayton is a member of the Center for National Policy's energy security
working policy group and was previously a researcher
at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
If you’re interested in attending, please RSVP to Professor Weinberger at
sweinberger@pugetsound.edu as soon as you can. Also, here are some recommended readings…
1) "An Anti-Speculative Frenzy," Energy, Security, and Climate, Blog, Council on Foreign Relations, April 12, 2012.
http://blogs.cfr.org/levi/2012/04/12/an-anti-speculative-frenzy/?cid=EMC-ACC_invite-Levi_Blog-041812
2) Blake Clayton, "In Defense of Oil Speculators," ForeignAffairs.com, April 9, 2012.
3) Melissa Bert and Blake Clayton, "Addressing
the Risk of a Cuban Oil Spill," Policy Innovation Memorandum No. 15,
Council on Foreign Relations, March 2012.
4) Michael Levi, "The Driller in Chief," Foreign Policy, March 1, 2012.
http://www.cfr.org/energyenvironment/driller-chief/p27537?cid=EMC-ACC_invite-Driller_in_Chief-041812
Hope to see you on Wednesday!
Seth Weinberger
