Amy Myers Jaffe

Amy Myers Jaffe was the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas until September, 2012.
As of October 1, 2012, Amy is the Executive Director, Energy and Sustainability, with a joint appointment at the Institute for Transportation Studies and the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis.
Jaffe attended Swampscott High School in Swampscott, Massachusetts.
Jaffe holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Near Eastern Studies and Arabic from Princeton University. She is often interviewed by the media and gives lectures to groups such as the Women's Energy Network (WEN) of Houston.
Jaffe's research focuses on oil geopolitics, strategic energy policy, and energy economics. She is widely published in academic journals and is a frequent keynote speaker at major energy industry conferences. Jaffe is a widely quoted commentator on oil and energy policy in the international media and has provided testimony on Capitol Hill on energy matters. She appears regularly on a variety of television news stations and programs.
Jaffe served as member of the reconstruction and economy working group of the Baker/Hamilton Iraq Study Group and was a major contributor to the recent joint Baker Institute/CFR task force on Guiding Principles for U.S. Post-Conflict Policy in Iraq . She has also served as an advisor to the U.S. National Intelligence Council Study on Energy to 2015, as project director for the Baker Institute/CFR task force on Strategic Energy Policy, and as a principal advisor to USAID's project on Options for Developing a Long Term Sustainable Iraqi Oil Industry. She is currently serving as a strategic advisor to the American Automobile Association (AAA) of the United States helping the motor club fashion a voice for the American motorist in the U.S. energy policy debate.

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