Charles K. Ebinger

Director, Foreign Policy, Energy Security Initiative | Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy
Portrait: Charles Ebinger

Charles Ebinger has more than 35 years of experience specializing in international and domestic energy markets (oil, gas, coal and nuclear) and the geopolitics of energy, with a particular focus on the Middle East, South Asia, Africa., the Arctic and Antarctic. Ebinger has served as an energy policy advisor to over 50 governments on restructuring their state-owned energy sectors, privatization and the creation of regulatory regimes. He is an adjunct professor of electricity economics at Johns Hopkins Nitze School and is one of the Nuclear Energy Institute’s "Nuclear Energy Experts."

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Expertise

  • Domestic and international energy policy
  • the Middle East
  • South Asia
  • foreign assistance
  • Africa

Experience

Past Positions

  • Senior Advisor, International Resources Group (2003-2008)
  • Vice President for Middle East and South Asia, Nexant (2000-2003)
  • Vice President for International Energy Group, Stone and Webster Management Consulting (1999-2000)
  • Executive Vice President, International Resources Group (1987-1999)
  • Senior Advisor, Putnam, Hayes and Bartlett, (1987-1988)
  • Director of the Energy Program, Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies (1979-1987)
  • Vice President, Conant and Associates (1976-1979)
  • Foreign Affairs Officer, Federal Energy Administration (1975-1976)

Education

  • Ph.D. (1981), MALD (1972), M.A. (1971), Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
  • B.A., Williams College, 1970

Language Fluency

  • French

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