Dr. Morgan D. Bazilian is the Director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy and Professor at the Colorado School of Mines. Previously, he was Lead Energy Specialist at the World Bank. 

Earlier in his career, he was a senior diplomat at the United Nations, and was the EU’s lead negotiator on technology at the UN climate negotiations.  He is one of the world’s foremost experts on energy and minerals security, policy, markets, and investment. 

Dr. Bazilian holds a Ph.D in thermodynamics, and was a Fulbright fellow. He has published more than 200 scholarly articles, and has been published in Science, Nature, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 

He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an Energy Security advisor to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, an adjunct professor of thermal physics at University College Cork, and a member of Ireland’s Climate Change Council.