Iran War: Impact on the Middle East and O&G Industry

Jim Krane is the Diana Tamari Sabbagh Fellow in Middle East Energy Studies and co-director of the Middle East Energy Roundtable at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He is the author of City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism and Energy Kingdoms: Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf. An expert in energy geopolitics and OPEC policy, Krane previously spent two decades as a journalist with leading organizations including the Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times, including six years reporting from the Middle East. He currently teaches energy policy and geopolitics at Rice University.

Robin Mills established Qamar Energy in Dubai in 2015 to meet the need for regionally-based Middle East energy insight and project delivery. He is an expert on energy strategy and economics.

Robin worked for fourteen years for Shell and the Dubai government, concentrating on new business development in the Middle East energy sector. With Qamar, he has led major strategic projects for Middle Eastern and international energy companies and governments in the areas of hydrogen, carbon capture, renewables, industrial decarbonisation and energy geopolitics.
He is non-resident fellow at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, the author of two books, The Myth of the Oil Crisis, and Capturing Carbon, and editor of Low Carbon Energy in the Middle East and North Africa. He is the columnist on energy and environmental issues at The National newspaper (Abu Dhabi), and comments widely on energy issues in the media, including Foreign Policy, the Financial Times, The Atlantic, CNN, CNBC, BBC, Bloomberg, Sky News and others.

He holds a first-class degree in Geology from the University of Cambridge, and speaks five languages including Arabic.

Shangyou Nie, PhD, is a former strategy advisor from Shell and non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. He is also the editor of AAPG’s upstream energy business newsletter, Well Read.