OTC Energy Roundtable
Moderator: Michelle Michot Foss
Michelle Michot Foss is the chief energy economist and head of the Center for Energy Economics (CEE) Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin. Michot Foss directs and conducts research, advises US and international energy companies, publishes and speaks widely on energy issues, and provides public commentary and testimony to governments. She developed and directs New Era in Oil, Gas & Power Value Creation, an annual international capacity-building program; is the principle investigator for the CEE’s LNG consortium; and is principle investigator on a number of federal agency and corporate grants and cooperative agreements.
While at the University of Houston from 1991 to 2005, Michot Foss was a Shell Interdisciplinary Scholar and Shell Graduate Fellow, coordinator of the Natural Gas Project, founder and director of the Energy Institute and executive director of the Institute for Energy, Law & Enterprise. She was also a director of research at Simmons & Company and director of research at the Rice Center.
In 2006, Michot Foss was chosen a senior fellow by the US Association for Energy Economics. Throughout her career, she has been involved in the International Association for Energy Economics, the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Women’s Energy Network, the Scientific Council and the Consumer Energy Alliance. She is a partner in Harvest Gas Management.
Michot Foss holds a PhD degree in political science from the University of Houston, an MS degree in economics from the Colorado School of Mines and a BS degree in biology from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
