‘Global Dependency on Energy’ to be topic at Jones Graduate School of Business

Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business will host “Global Dependency on Energy,” part of the Jones Partners’ Thought Leadership Series, at 6 p.m. Feb. 18 in McNair Hall’s Shell Auditorium.

AL MOSHIRI

Featured speakers will be Ali Moshiri, president of Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production Co., and Kenneth Medlock, fellow in energy and resource economics at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, senior director of the Baker Institute’s Center for Energy Studies and adjunct professor and lecturer in Rice’s Economics Department.

Moshiri will discuss how the above-ground challenges can be equally as complex as the technical ones in today’s oil and gas industry. Project success is determined more and more by how issues like geopolitics, personnel, supply chain and local content are managed, event organizers said. Medlock will discuss global energy use and how politics, geography, economics and geology all converge to influence the energy industry. This includes discussing how trade flows and resource and infrastructure development opportunities are impacted by varying political and regulatory frameworks, which are critical to determining the global competitive landscape, the organizers said.

KENNETH MEDLOCK

The Jones Partners is a committed group of business professionals working to open doors and increase collaboration between the Jones School and the Houston business community. The Jones Partners organizes several Thought Leadership events throughout the year that allow the business community to gain perspectives on current issues from industry leaders and Jones School faculty members by exploring business trends and associated academic research and thought.

The event is free to Jones Partners members, current Jones School MBA students and Rice faculty and staff. Admission costs $50 for members of the general public. For more information or to register, visit http://business.rice.edu/tls_moshiri.