Speakers

Dr. Michot Foss, Advisor, L’Acadie Network, has 45 years in energy and materials research and consulting with extensive international experience.  She is a non-resident fellow, US Naval War College; distinguished fellow, Energy Policy Research Foundation;  visiting fellow National Center for Energy Analytics: and collaborator at Rice University’s Carbon Hub, focused on commercializing advanced carbon materials. At Rice she held a fellowship in Energy, Minerals and Materials, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Center for Energy Studies.  Dr. Michot Foss retired as chief energy economist and head of the Bureau of Economic Geology’s Center for Energy Economics at The University of Texas at Austin.  At UTA she was an executive instructor for McCombs School of Business and an ExxonMobil Instructor of Excellence; and a member of the advisory committees for UTA’s Jackson School of Geosciences Energy & Earth Resources graduate program and Jackson School Endowment.  Previously, Dr. Michot Foss was a research professor and Shell Interdisciplinary Scholar at the University of Houston, and director of research at investment bank Simmons & Company International and at Rice Center.

Her career research highlights include projects for the Texas Comptroller, U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, World Bank, Japan’s External Trade Organization, and the Saudi Arabia-led Future Minerals Forum.  She led industry research consortia for US-Mexico natural gas trade and LNG development in North America.  She implemented technical assistance programs sponsored by USAID and the State Department’s Bureau of Energy Resources in more than 20 countries and regions, including Central Asia, Ukraine, West Africa, Uganda, India, Bangladesh and Mexico.  She also established and led New Era in Oil, Gas & Power Value Creation, a capacity building program for energy sector professionals from more than 40 countries.  New Era was recognized twice by World Oil Awards for excellence.

She is a scientist and political economist with degrees from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Colorado School of Mines, and the University of Houston.