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Morgan D. Bazilian is Director of the Payne Institute and Professor of Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. Previously, he was Lead Energy Specialist at the World Bank. He has over two decades of experience in energy, natural resources, energy poverty, national security, and investment. He holds a Ph.D. in energy physics and was a Fulbright Fellow. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, a senior advisor on security to NREL, a Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and an adjunct professor of thermal physics at University College Cork. He has published over 220 papers in learned journals, and his 2008 book: “Analytical Methods for Energy Diversity and Security” is a seminal work in the field. His work has appeared in Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, WSJ, Washington Post, New York Times, FT, and Foreign Affairs. Dr. Bazilian was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Adviso