Energy Experts
Counselor for International Strategy, Chevron Corporation; Chairman, Eurasia Foundation; Former White House NIS Ombudsman and Counselor to U.S. Department of Commerce
Assistant Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Relations
Assistant research professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Relations
Assistant Professor, Science, Technology and International Affairs Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Throughout my academic and professional career, I have been motivated by what I believe to be the quintessential environmental challenge of our time, global climate change, and the need to transition to a low carbon economy. Since the majority of future fossil energy consumption and consequently carbon dioxide emissions will stem from the developing world, and foremost from China’s rapid industria...
Woodrow Wilson Center
Christian F. Ostermann is director of the History and Public Policy Program (HAPP) as well as the director of European Studies (ES) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Under his purview as director of HAPP and ES, Ostermann also oversees the Cold War International History Program (CWIHP), the European Energy Security Initiative (EESI), the North Korea International Documentati...
Jennifer Turner has been the director of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center for 12 years. Besides putting on meetings and publications focusing on a variety of energy and environmental challenges facing China, she has coordinated several research exchange activities in China, the United States, and Japan bringing together Chinese, U.S., and other Asian experts on issues of en...
Associate Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Cornell University
My interest in biological weapons issues first emerged during my graduate work in the sciences at Princeton University, where I developed a side interest in science policy issues. During that time, I studied technical security issues under Frank von Hippel, a physics/policy professor at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. From this experience, I began my first forays into research on se...
Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Law, Montclair State University
Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
I first developed the concept for my monograph, China as a Risk Society, as a result of my experience as a Fulbright lecturer in Hong Kong in 2002-2003, the year of the SARS crisis, when I observed a complete turnaround in China’s relations with its neighbors due to the Chinese government’s mishandling of the epidemic. Although I have written a great deal over the past decade about great pow...
