MICHAEL A. LEVI Council on Foreign Relations 58 East 68 th Street New York, NY 10065 212-434-9495 mlevi@cfr.org EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION Council on Foreign Relations, 2006- David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment (2008- ); and Director, Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies (2014- ); and Director, Program on Energy Security and Climate Change (2007- ). Previously Fellow for Science & Technology (2006-2008). Focus is on the intersection of energy, environment, and foreign and domestic policy. Current projects focus on squaring fossil fuels and clean energy in U.S. strategy; relationships between energy and national security (including economic elements); Chinese overseas resource investment; and climate diplomacy. Other recent projects have focused on clean energy innovation and on nuclear strategy. Brookings Institution, 2003-2006 Science and Technology Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies (2003-2004). Non-Resident Science Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies (2004-2006). Federation of American Scientists, 2001-2003 Ph.D., University of London (King s College), War Studies, 2006. M.A., Princeton University, Physics, 2001 (formally awarded in 2002). B.Sc. (Hons.), Queen s University (Kingston), Mathematical Physics, 1999. TEACHING BOOKS Weapons of Mass Destruction, School of Public and International Affairs, Columbia University, Spring 2007 and 2008. By All Means Necessary: How China s Resource Quest is Changing the World (with Elizabeth Economy). Oxford University Press, 2014. The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America s Future. Oxford University Press, 2013. Michael A. Levi Page 1 of 10
On Nuclear Terrorism. Harvard University Press, 2007. The Future of Arms Control (with Michael O Hanlon). Brookings Press. 2005. EXTENDED MONOGRAPHS Levi, Michael. A Strategy for U.S. Natural Gas Exports. Hamilton Project Discussion Paper. Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, June 2012. Levi, Michael, et al. Energy Innovation: Driving Competition and Cooperation among the U.S., China, India, and Brazil. Council on Foreign Relations, November 2010. Confronting Climate Change: A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations, Task Force Report No. 61 (lead author; former Governors George E. Pataki and Thomas J. Vilsack, Co-chairs), June 2008. Levi, Michael and Michael B. d Arcy. Untapped Potential: US Science and Technology Cooperation with the Islamic World. Brookings Institution, 2005. Levi, Michael. Fire in the Hole: Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Options for Counterproliferation. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002. JOURNAL ARTICLES AND SHORTER MONOGRAPHS Levi, Michael. America s Energy Opportunity, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2013. Levi, Michael. The Enduring Vulnerabilities of Oil Markets, Security Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 1, February 2013, pp.132-138. Levi, Michael. Climate Consequences of Natural Gas As a Bridge Fuel, Climatic Change,Vol. 118, Issues 3-4, June 2013, pp.609-623. Levi, Michael and Daniel P. Ahn. Using Oil Taxes to Improve Fiscal Reform, Council on Foreign Relations, February 2013. Levi, Michael and Blake Clayton. The Surprising Sources of Oil s Influence, Survival, Vol. 54, Issue 6, 2012. Levi, Michael. Comment on Hydrocarbon emissions characterization in the Colorado Front Range a pilot study, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, Vol. 117, D21203, 5 PP., 2012. Levi, Michael. The Hidden Risks of Energy Innovation, Issues of Science and Technology, Vol. 29, No. 2, Winter 2012. Michael A. Levi Page 2 of 10
Levi, Michael. Natural Gas and Nuclear Power, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2012. Levi, Michael. Think Again: The U.S. Energy Boom, Foreign Policy, July/August 2012. Levi, Michael. Drawing the Line on Iranian Enrichment. Survival, August/September 2011. Bazalian, Morgan et al. Informing the Financing of Universal Energy Access: An Assessment of Current Financial Flows, The Electricity Journal, August 2011. McNally, Robert and Michael Levi. A Crude Predicament: The New Era of Volatile Oil Prices. Foreign Affairs, July/August 2011. Bazilian, Morgan et al., Understanding the Scale of Investment for Universal Energy Access. Geopolitics of Energy, Vol. 32, No. 10-11, October-November 2010. Levi, Michael et al. Globalizing the Energy Revolution. Foreign Affairs, November/December 2010. Levi, Michael. Creating a Climate Policy Review Mechanism. Policy Brief. Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, November 20, 2009. Frogatt, Antony and Michael Levi. Climate and Energy Security Policies and Measures: Synergies and Conflicts. International Affairs, Vol. 85, Issue 6, November 2009, pp. 1129-1141. Levi, Michael. Copenhagen s Inconvenient Truth. Foreign Affairs, September/October 2009. Levi, Michael. The Canadian Oil Sands: Energy Security vs. Climate Change. Council Special Report No. 47. Council on Foreign Relations, May 2009. Hall, Daniel et al. Policies for Developing Country Engagement. Discussion Paper 2008-15. Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, October 2008. Levi, Michael. Deterring State Sponsorship of Nuclear Terrorism. Council Special Report No. 39. Council on Foreign Relations, September 2008. Levi, Michael. Stopping Nuclear Terrorism. Foreign Affairs, January/February 2008. Levi, Michael and Charles Ferguson. U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation: A Strategy for Moving Forward. Council Special Report No. 16. Council on Foreign Relations, June 2006. Michael A. Levi Page 3 of 10
Levi, Michael. Nuclear Rights and Nuclear Responsibilities. Aspenia, Vol. 27, 2005. Levi, Michael and Michael O Hanlon. Arms Control and American Security. Current History, April 2005. Levi, Michael. The United States and Europe at the NPT Review Conference. Brookings Center on the United States and Europe Analysis Paper Series, 2005. Levi, Michael. Dreaming of Clean Nukes?. Nature, Vol. 428, No. 2, April 22, 2004, pp. 892. Levi, Michael. Deterring Nuclear Terrorism. Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2004. Levi, Michael. Mini-Nukes. Internationale Politik, January 2004, pp. 26-30. Levi, Michael. Weapons Scientists as Whistle Blowers. World Policy Journal, Winter 2003/04. Levi, Michael. The Case Against New Nuclear Weapons. Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 19, No. 3, Spring 2003, pp. 63-68. WORKING PAPERS Levi, Michael. Energy Security: An Agenda for Research. CFR. May 2010. Michonski, Katherine and Michael Levi. Harnessing International Institutions to Address Climate Change. Council on Foreign Relations Working Paper. March 2010. TESTIMONY The Geopolitical Potential of the U.S. Energy Boom, House Foreign Affairs Committee, March 26, 2014. Geopolitical Consequences of U.S. Natural Gas Exports, House Foreign Affairs Committee, April 25, 2013. U.S. Energy Security: Enhancing Partnerships with Mexico and Canada, House Foreign Affairs Committee, March 14, 2013. Global Efforts to Combat Climate Change, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, November 17, 2009. Detecting Nuclear Smuggling, Senate Judiciary Committee, July 20, 2006. Michael A. Levi Page 4 of 10
Averting Nuclear Terrorism, House International Relations Committee, April 14, 2005. Agent Defeat Weapons, National Academy of Sciences, April 27, 2004. OP-EDS AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES (Sole author unless otherwise noted.) Beijing s Actions in the South China Sea Demand a U.S. Response, with Elizabeth Economy Washington Post, May 15, 2014. China Isn t Overtaking America, New York Times, May 13, 2014. China Runs Into Natural-Resources Pushback, with Elizabeth Economy, Wall Street Journal, April 3, 2014. Hot Air About American Gas Will Not Scare Putin, Financial Times, March 25, 2014. Bittersweet Achievement on Climate, with Jason Bordoff, New York Times, June 26, 2013. How Tesla Pulled Ahead of the Electric-Car Pack, Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2013. The Emerging Irony of U.S. Energy Independence, CNBC, June 3, 2013. Bullish Energy Headlines Should Be Taken With Grain of Salt, Dallas Morning News, May 31, 2013. Make Sure Fracking is Done Right, CNN.com, May 28, 2013. Why Does Summer Bring Higher Gas Prices?, USA Today, May 27, 2013. In Defense of Tesla s Price Tag, Fortune Magazine, May 13, 2013. We Don t Need Exotic Fuels to Cook the Earth, Coal Will Do, Atlantic Monthly, April 29, 2013. Pushing Past the Prius Toward an All-Electric Car, Bloomberg.com, April 18, 2013. More U.S. Oil Probably Won t Destroy the Climate, Bloomberg.com, April 17, 2013. Why More U.S. Oil May Not Mean Cheaper U.S. Gas, Bloomberg.com, April 16, 2013. The Other Resource Curse, ForeignPolicy.com, February 7, 2013. Michael A. Levi Page 5 of 10
Higher Oil Taxes Would Lift the Economy, with Daniel P. Ahn, Bloomberg, February 7, 2013. The False Promise of Energy Independence, New York Times, December 21, 2012. The People s Republic of California, ForeignPolicy.com, December 4, 2012. Critics of Shale Gas Should Be Realistic, Financial Times, November 28, 2012. Nuclear Terror Threat Goes POOF, with Micah Zenko, USA Today, October 29, 2012. Pipe Dreams, ForeignPolicy.com, August 23, 2012. The Case for Natural Gas Exports, New York Times, August 15, 2012. The Driller in Chief, ForeignPolicy.com, March 1, 2012. How to Talk Down Tehran s Nuclear Ambitions, with Richard Haass, Wall Street Journal, February 22, 2012. Five Myths About the Keystone XL Pipeline, Washington Post, January 18, 2012. The Flaws in a Global Climate Treaty Fixation, Financial Times, November 29, 2011. A Shortsighted Victory in Delaying the Keystone XL Pipeline, New York Times, November 11, 2011. New Energy Jobs Won t Solve the U.S. Unemployment Problem, ForeignAffairs.com October 18, 2011. Shale Gas Isn t Actually Evil. But the Shale Gas Industry is Behaving Stupidly, The New Republic, July 18, 2011 Concerns Overshadow Shale Boom, Houston Chronicle, April 11, 2011. The Devil We Know, Slate, March 21, 2011. 5 Myths About Nuclear Energy, Washington Post, March 16, 2011. Prepare Now for a Saudi Oil Price Shock, Financial Times, February 22, 2011. Tilting at Wind Turbines, ForeignPolicy.com, January 19, 2011. A Tale of Two Treaties, USA Today, December 8, 2010. Michael A. Levi Page 6 of 10
Why Cancun Matters, Slate, November 29, 2010. The Key to Cancun, Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2010. Don t Screw Up Natural Gas, The Atlantic.com, November 17, 2010. Who Killed the Climate Bill?, ForeignPolicy.com, July 23, 2010. Are Climate Skeptics Lousy Scientists?, Slate, June 24, 2010. Gasbags, ForeignPolicy.com, June 15, 2010. Will the New Climate Bill Damage U.S. Energy Security?, with Trevor Houser, Slate, June 15, 2010. Obama s Nuke Plan Doesn t Go Far Enough, The Daily Beast, April 7, 2010. Power Banking, with Katherine Michonski, ForeignPolicy.com, April 7, 2010. Beyond Copenhagen, Foreign Affairs (Online), February 2010. Three Steps to Reducing Nuclear Terrorism, with Micah Zenko, Christian Science Monitor, January 25, 2010. The Road from Copenhagen, with Frank Loy, International Herald Tribune, December 23, 2009. The Party s Over, Slate, December 21, 2009. Hey, Copenhagen, Stop Complaining, Slate, December 11, 2009. Is the Stimulus Working for You?, with Adam Segal, Nature, October 18, 2009. Gas Guzzlers. Foreign Policy, September/October 2009. The Dangers of a Carbon Trade War, Boston Globe, August 12, 2009. Living on Canada s Oil: Must We Really Choose Between Energy Security and a Climate Disaster?, Slate, June 19, 2009. Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Why Green Jobs May Not Save the Economy or the Environment, Slate, March 4, 2009. Nuclear Fears, Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2009. The Problem in Poznan Slate, December 11, 2008. Michael A. Levi Page 7 of 10
Palin s Alaska Makes Case on Climate Change, with Scott Borgerson, USA Today, September 24, 2008. Secret Science, SEED, January 2008. Fear and the Nuclear Terror Threat, USA Today, January 9, 2008. Some Simple Security Steps, Washington Times, December 5, 2007. In the Search for Loose Nukes, a Little Propaganda Goes a Long Way, Wired, November 2007. Got the sticks. Now the talks, with Lee Feinstein, International Herald Tribune, March 30, 2007. Tangled Web, with Steven Cook, Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2007. One Shot, Many Motives, with Adam Segal, International Herald Tribune, January 25, 2007. To Persuade Iran, Back Talks With Sanctions, with Lee Feinstein, International Herald Tribune, November 11, 2006. Responding to Pyongyang with an Eye Toward Tehran, Slate, October 12, 2006. Washington s Latest Missile Defense Blunder, Slate, June 28, 2006. Getting the U.S.-India Deal Right, with Charles Ferguson, WashingtonPost.com, June 7, 2006. Help U.S. Firms Free China s Web, with Elizabeth Economy, International Herald Tribune, April 20, 2006. Iran s Sitting Duck, New York Times, April 18, 2006. Still Time for a Good Deal with India, with Ivo Daalder, WashingtonPost.com, March 10, 2006. Overseas scientists important to U.S. spirit of innovation, with Adam Segal, San Jose Mercury News, March 9, 2006. America's misguided nuclear strategy, Boston Globe, March 7, 2006. Keep the Nuclear Watchdog Neutral, Washington Post, December 9, 2005. Michael A. Levi Page 8 of 10
Science and Diplomacy, with Michael B. d Arcy, Washington Times, August 17, 2005. Complex Future for US Weapons, Physics World, August 2005. How can one stop Iran from getting the atomic bomb?, with Peter Zimmerman, Die Zeit, October 8, 2004. There is no absolute right to nuclear energy, Financial Times, September 22, 2004. Senate should check doubts about Goss, Newsday, August 13, 2004. Bunker Busting Nuclear Weapons. Scientific American, August 2004. Uncertainty and WMD, Washington Post, July 25, 2004. Without Agency, The New Republic, May 3, 2004. Nuclear clients: don t overlook the unusual suspects, with Susan Rice, International Herald Tribune, April 5, 2004. Learning to Love the Tiny Bomb?. Foreign Policy, March/April 2004, pp. 93-4. Iran s nuclear program: the U.S. and EU have to come together, with Ivo Daalder, International Herald Tribune, February 27, 2004. A new strain on alliance, with Ivo Daalder, Los Angeles Times, November 28, 2003. A nuclear mixed message, New York Times, November 20, 2003. Enabler, The New Republic, October 6, 2003. How to counter Iran s nuclear threat, with Ivo Daalder, Financial Times, September 24, 2003. A nuclear option that America does not need, Financial Times, August 15, 2003. A global solution is needed for illicit weapons, with Michael O Hanlon, Financial Times, July 11, 2003. Image issue: stolen Iraqi uranium, Newsday, June 13, 2003. Royal Pain, The New Republic, June 2, 2003. Mislabeling WMD, Chicago Tribune, May 26, 2003. Uncontainable, The New Republic, May 26, 2003. Michael A. Levi Page 9 of 10
Fallout, The New Republic, February 17, 2003. Nuclear Dangers Beyond Iraq, New York Times, September 23, 2002. Perilous Nuclear Tunnel Vision, with Theresa Hitchens, Los Angeles Times, July 21, 2002. Nix the Mini-Nukes, with Henry Kelly, Christian Science Monitor, March 28, 2002. Weapons of Mass Disruption, with Henry Kelly, Scientific American, Vol. 287, No. 5, November 2002, pp. 76-81. Wrote monthly online column on science and security for The New Republic, 2003-06. Contributed over thirty articles to The New Republic (Online), not listed here. STUDY GROUP REPORTS (CONTRIBUTOR) CISAC (Stanford) and PS&GS (Princeton), Preventing Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Terrorism, CISAC, 2005. CISAC (Stanford), Container Security Report, CISAC, 2003. SELECTED SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS SSHRC Canada, William E. Taylor Fellowship, 2005-8 (declined 2006-8). NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship A, 1999-2001. Princeton University 250 th Anniversary Science Fellowship, 1999. Elected Commonwealth Scholar to the United Kingdom, 1999 (declined). Queen s University (Kingston), Governor General s Silver Medal, 1999. DISCLOSURES I have received honoraria, royalties, or consulting fees of at least $5,000 from each of the following in last two years: Bank of America; Barclays PLC; The Brookings Institution; Colombia ANH; Commonfund Institute; The Dalton School; DHL; Florida Office of Energy; NMS Management; Oxford University Press; Pacific Pension Institute; PJM Interconnection; PwC; Rice University; The Rhodium Group; Warburg Pincus LLC; World Affairs Council of Northern Florida; and Zurich Insurance. Michael A. Levi Page 10 of 10