Michael A. Levi is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment and director of the program on energy security and climate change at the Council on Foreign Relations. His recent research has focused on international climate policy, global oil market dynamics, and shale gas. He is currently writing books on U.S. energy policy and on the Chinese quest for overseas natural resources (the latter with Elizabeth Economy).
Mr. Levi was project director for the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on climate change, co-chaired by former governors Tom Vilsack and George Pataki, author of the book On Nuclear Terrorism (Harvard University Press, 2007), and coauthor (with Michael O’Hanlon) of The Future of Arms Control (Brookings Institution Press, 2005).
He received his PhD in war studies from the University of London (King’s College) and his MA in physics from Princeton University.
