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IAEE-Houston Chapter December 2007 Meeting (Co-Sponsored by UT's Center for Energy Economics)

Thursday, December 6, 2007 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (CT)

Houston, United States
IAEE-Houston Chapter December 2007 Meeting (Co-Sponsored by...

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Please join the Houston Chapter of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) on Thursday, December 6, for our fourth meeting of the 2007-2008 season.   Note that this month's meeting will be held on the FIRST Thursday, rather than the second as usual. The meeting is being co-sponsored this month by the Center for Energy Economics at the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin.  You can learn more about the CEE and its activities at their web site.

TOPIC: December's meeting features a luncheon presentation,"Russian Gas: Myths and Realities," by Professor Jonathan Stern, Director of Gas Research at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and a member of CEE-UT's international advisory board.

LOCATION: The meeting will take place at the Federal Reserve Bank located at 1801 Allen Parkway in Houston, TX.  For directions, please use following the link: http://www.dallasfed.org/fed/direct_hou.pdf.  Doors open at 11:30 a.m. for networking.  Lunch is served at 12:00 noon in the Brazos Room. The talk will be followed by a brief Q&A session. 

REGISTRATION: You are encouraged to RSVP via the on-line system at http://iaeehoustondecember.eventbrite.com/--using the electronic system expedites your security screening at the Federal Reserve.  You may pre-pay for your registration with a credit card, or you may indicate that you will pay via cash or check at the door.  If you are registering or purchasing tickets for your colleagues, please provide the name of each person in your party to expedite entry through security. Registration closes 24 hours in advance of the meeting.  
MEMBERSHIP: To join the Houston Chapter of the IAEE/USAEE, please visit http://iaeehoumembership.eventbrite.com/.  Annual dues are $25.  Chapter membership entitles you to the members' discounted registration rate, the right to vote on Chapter business and to elect officers, and the satisfaction of joining Houston's premier professional and educational forum for energy economics.

About Professor Stern
Jonathan Stern is Director of Gas Research at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies; Honorary Professor at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum & Mineral Law & Policy, University of Dundee; and Visiting Professor at Imperial College’s Centre for Environmental Policy in London.  Since 1992 he has been Associate Fellow of Chatham House’s Energy Environment and Development Programme which he previously headed.

Over the past two decades Professor Stern has become an internationally known speaker and author on natural gas and security issues in Europe, the former Soviet Union and a very wide range of countries around the world.

He is the author of several books and many shorter works on energy and natural gas issues in: the UK, Europe (western and eastern), the former Soviet Union and Asia.  His most recent book, The Future of Russian Gas and Gazprom, was published by Oxford University Press in October 2005.  His study: The New Security Environment for European Gas: Worsening Geopolitics and Increasing Global Competition for LNG, published in late 2006; and his articles on the Russian-Ukrainian Gas Crisis of January 2006 and Russia-Belarus crisis of January 2007 can be found on the OIES website www.oxfordenergy.org.

His current major research project is the second edition of Natural Gas in Asia: the challenges of growth in China, India, Japan and Korea which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2008.