Oil industry expert joining UC Davis

Amy Myers Jaffe, a leading expert on the oil industry who is a widely quoted commentator on oil and energy policy in the international media, will join the University of California Davis Oct. 1, strengthening the university?s leadership on clean technology, sustainable energy and transportation.

Jaffe will become executive director of energy and sustainability in a joint appointment to the UC Davis Graduate School of Management and Institute of Transportation Studies. Her expertise spans geopolitics and strategic energy policy, including energy science policy and energy economics.

She has spent the past 16 years at Rice University where she served as director of the Energy Forum at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. She is the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies, as well as associate director of the Rice Energy Program.

?By working at the interface of two great UC Davis institutions, the Graduate School of Management and the Institute of Transportation Studies, I see tremendous opportunities to work with the top minds in the field to forge a bridge between academia and the energy industry to a smarter U.S. policy on energy and climate change,? Jaffe said in a news release.

She added that the U.S. has a historic opportunity to create a national energy policy that address the growing insecurity of Middle East oil supply and climate change challenges.

?The United States suddenly finds itself with ample domestic natural gas, emergent automotive technologies and a younger generation of Americans who care deeply about sustainability,? she said. ?It is within our grasp to gain an energy future that we can be proud of for future generations.?

Steven Currall, dean of the Graduate School of Management, said Jaffe brings unequaled experience and expertise. ?Amy will be leading our efforts in education programs in energy and sustainability, and her interdisciplinary work and leadership represents a first-of-its-kind collaboration between our program and the Institute of Transportation Studies,? Currall said in a statement.

Melanie Turner covers energy, medical/biotechnology, agriculture, transportation and manufacturing for the Sacramento Business Journal.

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