Robert Ebel

Chairman, Energy Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies

Expertise: Energy and oil in the former Soviet Union; energy security; oil imports; world supply and demand

Robert Ebel is chairman of the Energy Program. Formerly vice president for international affairs at Enserch Corporation, he was responsible for the corporation's political and financial risk assessment programs. Previously, he held positions in the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of the Interior, and the Federal Energy Agency. Ebel has traveled widely in the former Soviet Union, including as a member of the first U.S. oil delegation in l960, and in l970 to inspect the new oil fields of Western Siberia. In 1994 he was named by the International Energy Agency to a team of experts examining Russia's long-term energy strategy, and in November 1997 Ebel led a team examining the oil and gas sector of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. He is the author of Chernobyl and its Aftermath (CSIS, 1994), Energy Choices in Russia (CSIS, 1994) and Energy in the Near Abroad (CSIS, 1997). He holds an M.A. in International Relations from Syracuse University and a B.S. in Petroleum Geology from Texas Tech. He also speaks Russian.